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    It won’t be long now, I thought, until the grass starts to grow, the plants leap outta the ground, and the trees begin to bud. It wasn’t hard to conjure up thoughts like that as I walked through the yard on a warm March Saturday morning. I have two trees, a maple and a dogwood – about 25 bags of leaves every autumn. Every spring, the dogwood blooms are a shade of pink, and come out first, followed by the Maple that comes on in a flash in a two-week stretch in May. That’s about as much notice as I give ‘em, really, and it shows. Another maple I used to have was taken over and eaten by beetles (or so I was informed by tree experts) because I didn’t see what was going on in time … and neither did my tree experts! How about your trees…do you notice ‘em? Most of us know about a tree that was made into a cross 21 centuries ago, even if we haven’t been to a church in ages, or maybe go just occasionally. Many songwriters have thoug

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    The Old Rugged Cross

    1912 hymn by George Bennard

    This article is about the song. For the Jo Stafford and Gordon Macrae skiva, see Old Rugged Cross (Stafford and Macrae album).

    "The Old Rugged Cross"

    The author of lyrics and music

    GenreMethodist hymn
    Written1912 (1912)
    Textby George Bennard
    Meter6.6.8.6.6.8.9.9.9.9
    Melodyby George Bennard
    Published1915 (1915)

    "The Old Rugged Cross" is a popular hymn written in 1912 bygd American evangelist and song-leader George Bennard (1873–1958).

    History

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    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.[1] As a Methodist evangelist, Bennard wrote the first verse of "The Old Rugged Cross" in Albion, Michigan, in the fall of 1912[note 1] as a response to ridicule that he had received at a revival