{"id":1016,"date":"2010-06-02T09:39:24","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T16:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sdahymnal.spicercampus.com\/hymnal\/?p=1016"},"modified":"2017-08-13T16:15:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T16:15:23","slug":"123-as-with-gladness-men-of-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/123-as-with-gladness-men-of-old\/","title":{"rendered":"123 \u2013 As With Gladness Men of Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1<br \/>\nAs with gladness men of old<br \/>\nDid the guiding star behold,<br \/>\nAs with joy they hailed its light,<br \/>\nLeading onward, beaming bright,<br \/>\nSo, most gracious Lord, may we<br \/>\nEvermore be led to Thee.<\/p>\n<p>2<br \/>\nAs with joyful steps they sped<br \/>\nTo that lowly manger bed,<br \/>\nThere to bend the knee before<br \/>\nHim whom heav\u2019n and earth adore,<br \/>\nSo may we with willing feet<br \/>\nEver seek Thy mercy seat.<\/p>\n<p>3<br \/>\nAs they offered gifts most rare<br \/>\nAt that manger rude and bare,<br \/>\nSo may we with holy joy,<br \/>\nPure, and free from sin\u2019s alloy,<br \/>\nAll our costliest treasures bring,<br \/>\nChrist, to Thee our heav\u2019nly King.<\/p>\n<p>4<br \/>\nHoly Jesus, every day<br \/>\nKeep us in the narrow way;<br \/>\nAnd, when earthly things are past,<br \/>\nBring our ransomed souls at last<br \/>\nWhere they need no star to guide,<br \/>\nWhere no clouds Thy glory hide.<\/p>\n<p>123 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 As with gladness men of old Did the guiding star behold, As with joy they hailed its light, Leading onward, beaming bright, So, most gracious Lord, may we Evermore be led to Thee. 2 As with joyful steps they sped To that lowly manger bed, There to bend the knee before Him whom heav\u2019n and earth adore, So may we with willing feet Ever seek Thy mercy seat. 3 As they offered gifts most rare At that manger rude and bare, So may we with holy joy, Pure, and free from sin\u2019s alloy, All our costliest treasures bring, Christ, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,116,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-101-200","category-birth","category-jesus-christ"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6415,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions\/6415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}