"Lift High the Cross"

Years ago, I wrote about the first half of the refrain in "Lift High the Cross."  Last month, I was thinking about the hymn again and realized something about the second half of the refrain:

(The tune is "Crucifer.")

The text is "Till all the world adore His sacred name."  The words in the phrase "all the world" are all sung to different pitches (spanning a sixth:  E G C), musically giving a sense of the breadth or entirety of that "all."

"Lift High the Cross"

"Lift High the Cross" was one of the hymns in church this week, so I thought I'd finally get around to writing about something I noticed in it years ago.

The first line of the refrain is "Lift high the cross, the love of Christ proclaim," sung to this musical phrase from the tune "Crucifer":

The first interval is an ascending fourth (G to C), musically representing that "Lift[ing] high."