1
\nOpen now thy gates of beauty,
\nZion, let me enter there,
\nWhere my soul in joyful duty
\nWaits for God Who answers prayer.
\nOh, how bless\u00e8d is this place,
\nFilled with solace, light, and grace!<\/p>\n
2
\nGracious God, I come before Thee,
\nCome Thou also unto me;
\nWhere we find Thee and adore Thee,
\nThere a heav\u2019n on earth must be.
\nTo my heart, oh, enter Thou,
\nLet it be Thy temple now!<\/p>\n
3
\nHere Thy praise is gladly chanted,
\nHere Thy seed is duly sown;
\nLet my soul, where it is planted,
\nBring forth precious sheaves alone,
\nSo that all I hear may be
\nFruitful unto life in me.<\/p>\n
4
\nThou my faith increase and quicken,
\nLet me keep Thy gift divine,
\nHowsoe\u2019er temptations thicken;
\nMay Thy Word still o\u2019er me shine
\nAs my guiding star through life,
\nAs my comfort in my strife.<\/p>\n
5
\nSpeak, O God, and I will hear Thee,
\nLet Thy will be done indeed;
\nMay I undisturbed draw near Thee
\nWhile Thou dost Thy people feed.
\nHere of life the fountain flows;
\nHere is balm for all our woes.<\/p>\n
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1 Open now thy gates of beauty, Zion, let me enter there, Where my soul in joyful duty Waits for God Who answers prayer. Oh, how bless\u00e8d is this place, Filled with solace, light, and grace! 2 Gracious God, I come before Thee, Come Thou also unto me; Where we find Thee and adore Thee, There a heav\u2019n on earth must be. To my heart, oh, enter Thou, Let it be Thy temple now! 3 Here Thy praise is gladly chanted, Here Thy seed is duly sown; Let my soul, where it is planted, Bring forth precious sheaves alone, So <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,88,10,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-001-100","category-morning-worship","category-10","category-worship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123","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=1123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6338,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions\/6338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}