1
\nThe advent of our God
\nWith eager prayers we greet,
\nAnd singing haste upon His road
\nHis coming reign to meet.<\/p>\n
2
\nThe everlasting Son
\nWas born to make us free;
\nAnd He a servant’s form put on
\nTo gain our liberty.<\/p>\n
3
\nAs Judge, on clouds of light,
\nHe soon will come again,
\nHis scattered people to unite
\nWith them in heaven to reign.<\/p>\n
4
\nPraise to the incarnate Son
\nWho comes to set us free,
\nWith Father, Spirit, ever one,
\nTo all eternity.<\/p>\n
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1 The advent of our God With eager prayers we greet, And singing haste upon His road His coming reign to meet. 2 The everlasting Son Was born to make us free; And He a servant’s form put on To gain our liberty. 3 As Judge, on clouds of light, He soon will come again, His scattered people to unite With them in heaven to reign. 4 Praise to the incarnate Son Who comes to set us free, With Father, Spirit, ever one, To all eternity. 117<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,121,69,277,10,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-101-200","category-first-advent","category-jesus-christ","category-john-chandler","category-10","category-t"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025","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=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6409,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions\/6409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}