1
\nWe gather together to ask the Lord’s blessing;
\nHe chastens and hastens His will to make known.
\nThe wicked oppressing now cease from distressing.
\nSing praises to His Name; He forgets not His own.<\/p>\n
2
\nBeside us to guide us, our God with us joining,
\nOrdaining, maintaining His kingdom divine;
\nSo from the beginning the fight we were winning;
\nThou, Lord, were at our side, all glory be Thine!<\/p>\n
3
\nWe all do extol Thee, Thou leader triumphant,
\nAnd pray that Thou still our defender wilt be.
\nLet Thy congregation escape tribulation;
\nThy name be ever praised! O Lord, make us free!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
1 We gather together to ask the Lord’s blessing; He chastens and hastens His will to make known. The wicked oppressing now cease from distressing. Sing praises to His Name; He forgets not His own. 2 Beside us to guide us, our God with us joining, Ordaining, maintaining His kingdom divine; So from the beginning the fight we were winning; Thou, Lord, were at our side, all glory be Thine! 3 We all do extol Thee, Thou leader triumphant, And pray that Thou still our defender wilt be. Let Thy congregation escape tribulation; Thy name be ever praised! O Lord, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,36,171,10,361,21,23],"tags":[127],"class_list":["post-1170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-001-100","category-adoration-and-praise","category-anon","category-10","category-theodore-baker","category-w","category-worship","tag-anonymous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170","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=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6301,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions\/6301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}