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\nRejoice, rejoice, believers, and let your lights appear:
\nThe evening is advancing, and darker night is near.
\nThe Bridegroom is arising, and soon He draweth nigh.
\nUp, pray, and watch, and wrestle, at midnight comes the cry.<\/p>\n
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\nThe watchers on the mountain proclaim the Bride-groom near.
\nGo, meet Him as He cometh, with hallelujahs clear.
\nThe marriage feast is waiting, the gates wide open stand;
\nUp, up, you heirs of glory, the Bride-groom is at hand.<\/p>\n
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\nYou saints who here in patience your cross and suff\u2019rings bore,
\nShall live and reign forever, when sorrow is no more.
\nUpon the throne of glory the Lamb you shall behold,
\nIn triumph cast before Him your diadems of gold!<\/p>\n
4
\nOur hope and expectation, O Jesus, now appear;
\nArise, O sun so longed for, o\u2019er this benighted sphere!
\nWith hearts and hands uplifted, we plead, O Lord, to see
\nThe day of earth\u2019s redemption that brings us unto Thee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
1 Rejoice, rejoice, believers, and let your lights appear: The evening is advancing, and darker night is near. The Bridegroom is arising, and soon He draweth nigh. Up, pray, and watch, and wrestle, at midnight comes the cry. 2 The watchers on the mountain proclaim the Bride-groom near. Go, meet Him as He cometh, with hallelujahs clear. The marriage feast is waiting, the gates wide open stand; Up, up, you heirs of glory, the Bride-groom is at hand. 3 You saints who here in patience your cross and suff\u2019rings bore, Shall live and reign forever, when sorrow is no more. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,41,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-501-600","category-christian-life","category-watchfulness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","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=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6883,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions\/6883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}