Bible Songs — Invitation

Look and Live

Look to the cross, sinner, believe it,

No. 1273
Tune LOOK AND LIVE.
Words F. E. B.
Music F. E. Belden.
Key F major
Time 6/4
4 stanzas

Words

Look to the cross, sinner, believe it,Look to the cross, healing is there;Pardon is thine, only receive it,Look to the cross in prayer.

REFRAIN

Look to the cross, look to the cross,Jesus believing, pardon receiving;Look to the cross, look to the cross,Look, and thy soul shall live.

Leave all thy sin, humbly confessing,Truly forsake, turn and obey;Jesus will give freely his blessing,Ask and receive to-day.

Ask of the Lord, now he is willingStrength to impart, grace to bestow;Promises sweet, ever fulfilling,Prove the great debt we owe.

Look to the cross, trusting in Jesus,Mighty to help, mighty to save;From all our guilt gladly he frees us,For us his life he gave.

About this hymn

As printed As printed: hymn number «1273» (large, left), title «LOOK AND LIVE.» centred (condensed capitals with larger initials; the final period carries an ink speck); under it the epigraph in two lines of small roman, «"And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole : and it shall come to pass that» / «every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live."—Num. 21 : 8.» (no italics; «Lord» in lower case after the capital; no comma after «pass»; old-style figures); «F. E. B.» at the left (words) and «F. E. BELDEN.» at the right (music, capitals and small capitals); «Tenderly.» in bold italic over the start of the music. No meter, no tune name other than the title, no reference line, no running head. All four stanzas are interlinear, numbered «1.»–«4.», between the staves of systems 1–2; «REFRAIN.» (bold capitals) stands over system 3, and the refrain words are printed once, under systems 3–4; the refrain is sung after every stanza. Under the music, centred: «Copyrighted 1886 by F. E. Belden.» (the last figure of the year is blurred), then the folio «489». Each printed line of words carries two verse lines; they are given here one verse line per line, each beginning with a capital as printed (the refrain is given as four verse lines: «Look … cross,» / «Jesus … receiving;» / «Look … cross,» / «Look, … live.»). The print sets a thin space before «;» and «:» («there ;», «o - bey ;», «be-stow ;», «save ;», «re-ceiv-ing ;», «pole :», «21 : 8»); it is closed up here; curly quotes are written straight. Words divided under the notes are joined («sin-ner», «be-lieve», «hum-bly», «confess-ing», «Tru-ly», «for-sake», «o-bey», «will-ing», «im-part», «be-stow», «trust-ing», «Je-sus», «Might-y», «Par-don», «on-ly», «re-ceive», «free-ly», «bless-ing», «Prom-is-es», «ev-er», «ful-fill-ing», «glad-ly», «be-liev-ing», «par-don», «re-ceiv-ing» → «sinner», «believe», «humbly», «confessing», «Truly», «forsake», «obey», «willing», «impart», «bestow», «trusting», «Jesus», «Mighty», «Pardon», «only», «receive», «freely», «blessing», «Promises», «ever», «fulfilling», «gladly», «believing», «pardon», «receiving»); «to - day» keeps its hyphen («to-day»). The tight setting of some words in the print («toim - part», «turnand», «Provethe», «greatdebt») is not reproduced. Spelling and punctuation are the print's (stanza 3 has no comma after «willing»; stanza 2 none after «give»; stanza 4 none after «guilt»).