{"id":4483,"date":"2001-06-18T08:36:33","date_gmt":"2001-06-18T08:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/?p=4483"},"modified":"2017-04-06T02:51:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T02:51:23","slug":"purpose-of-the-hymnal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/purpose-of-the-hymnal-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Purpose of the Hymnal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ellen White<\/strong>, cofounder and spiritual leader of our church, noted that \u201cthe  soul may ascend nearer heaven on the wings, of praise.\u201d\u2014Steps to Christ, p. 104.  \u201cSinging,\u201d she said, \u201c. . . is as much an act of worship as is prayer.  \u2013Patriarchs of Prophets, p. 594. <strong>This hymnal is designed to help Seventh-day  Adventists<\/strong> continue this chorus of praise that cheered God\u2019s ancient people,  encouraged the early church, powered the Reformation, and brightens the  fellowship of those who share the \u201cblessed hope.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ellen White, cofounder and spiritual leader of our church, noted that \u201cthe soul may ascend nearer heaven on the wings, of praise.\u201d\u2014Steps to Christ, p. 104. \u201cSinging,\u201d she said, \u201c. . . is as much an act of worship as is prayer. \u2013Patriarchs of Prophets, p. 594. This hymnal is designed to help Seventh-day Adventists continue this chorus of praise that cheered God\u2019s ancient people, encouraged the early church, powered the Reformation, and brightens the fellowship of those who share the \u201cblessed hope.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4483","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=4483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6285,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4483\/revisions\/6285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}