1
\nWhen the church of Jesus shuts its outer door,
\nLest the roar of traffic drown the voice of prayer:
\nMay our prayers, Lord make up ten times more aware
\nThat the world we banish is our Christian care.<\/p>\n
2
\nIf our hearts are lifted where devotion soars
\nHigh above this hungry suffering world of ours:
\nLest our hymns should drug us to forget its needs,
\nForge our Christian worship into Christian deeds.<\/p>\n
3
\nLest the gifts we offer, money, talents, time,
\nServe to salve our conscience to our secret shame:
\nLord, reprove, inspire us by the way you give;
\nTeach us, dying Savior, how true Christians live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
1 When the church of Jesus shuts its outer door, Lest the roar of traffic drown the voice of prayer: May our prayers, Lord make up ten times more aware That the world we banish is our Christian care. 2 If our hearts are lifted where devotion soars High above this hungry suffering world of ours: Lest our hymns should drug us to forget its needs, Forge our Christian worship into Christian deeds. 3 Lest the gifts we offer, money, talents, time, Serve to salve our conscience to our secret shame: Lord, reprove, inspire us by the way you give; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,41,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-501-600","category-christian-life","category-loving-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","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=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6865,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions\/6865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}