The cross — a place of both sorrow
and happiness.
“At the cross, at the cross where I first saw the light,
And the burden of my heart rolled away,
It was there by faith I received my sight,
And now I am happy all the day!”
Ralph E. Hudson, 1885
Funny how God turns sorrow into joy. 
Famous hymn-writer Isaac Watts wrote the verses to the hymn Alas! And Did My Savior Bleed (1707). Ralph Hudson added the refrain and melody. Before he became a composer and teacher, Hudson was an army nurse during the Civil War.
