Who Sings The Original Old Rugged Cross

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Who sings the original old rugged cross. George bennard was a native of youngstown ohio but was reared in iowa after his conversion in a salvation army meeting he and his wife became brigade leaders before leaving the organization for the methodist church. For the dear lamb of god left his glory above to bear it to dark calvary. Alan jackson official video for the old rugged cross live available now. Oh that old rugged cross so despised by the world has a wondrous attraction for me.

So i ll cherish the old rugged cross till my trophies at last i lay down i will cling to the old rugged cross and exchange it some day for a crown. Live at the ryman a. Daniel o donnell singing the old rugged cross. On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross the emblem of suff ring and shame and i love that old cross where the dearest and best for a world of lost sinners was slain.

As a methodist evangelist bennard wrote the first verse of the old rugged cross in albion michigan in the fall of 1912 as a response to ridicule that he had. Daniel o donnell singing the old rugged cross.