1
\nLead on, O King eternal,
\nthe day of march has come;
\nhenceforth in fields of conquest
\nthy tents shall be our home.
\nThrough days of preparation
\nthy grace has made us strong;
\nand now, O King eternal,
\nwe lift our battle song.<\/p>\n
2
\nLead on, O King eternal,
\ntill sin’s fierce war shall cease,
\nand holiness shall whisper
\nthe sweet amen of peace.
\nFor not with swords loud clashing,
\nnor roll of stirring drums;
\nwith deeds of love and mercy
\nthe heavenly kingdom comes.<\/p>\n
3
\nLead on, O King eternal,
\nwe follow, not with fears,
\nfor gladness breaks like morning
\nwhere’er thy face appears.
\nThy cross is lifted o’er us,
\nwe journey in its light;
\nthe crown awaits the conquest;
\nlead on, O God of might.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
1 Lead on, O King eternal, the day of march has come; henceforth in fields of conquest thy tents shall be our home. Through days of preparation thy grace has made us strong; and now, O King eternal, we lift our battle song. 2 Lead on, O King eternal, till sin’s fierce war shall cease, and holiness shall whisper the sweet amen of peace. For not with swords loud clashing, nor roll of stirring drums; with deeds of love and mercy the heavenly kingdom comes. 3 Lead on, O King eternal, we follow, not with fears, for gladness breaks like <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,41,42,74,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-601-700","category-christian-life","category-christian-warfare","category-l","category-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","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=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6903,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/6903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}