![]() A plaque commemorating the first performance of the song stands in front of the Friend's Church in Sturgeon Bay, WI. A memorial has also been created in Youngstown at Lake Park Cemetery. ![]() Bennard retired to Reed City, Michigan, and the town maintains a museum dedicated to his life and ministry. The hymn uses a sentimental popular song form with a verse/chorus pattern in 6,8 time and it speaks of the writer's adoration of Christ and His sacrifice at Calvary. George Bennard finished "The Old Rugged Cross" and on the last night of the meetings, Bennard and Mieras performed it as a duet before a full house with Pearl Torstensen Berg, the organist for the meeting. Mieras from Chicago to Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin where they held evangelistic meetings at the Friends Church from December 29, 1912, to January 12, 1913. Then He'll call me some day to my home far awayĪs a Methodist preacher, George Bennard wrote the first verse of "The Old Rugged Cross" in Albion, Michigan, in 1912 as a reply to ridicule that he had received at a revival meeting. ![]() To the old rugged Cross, I will ever be true In the old rugged Cross, stained with blood so divine Oh, that old rugged Cross so despised by the worldįor the dear Lamb of God, left His Glory above On a hill far away, stood an old rugged CrossĪnd I love that old Cross where the dearest and best
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