{"id":632,"date":"2010-04-08T04:22:24","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T11:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sdahymnal.spicercampus.com\/hymnal\/?p=632"},"modified":"2017-08-13T16:50:37","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T16:50:37","slug":"395-as-birds-unto-the-genial-homeland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/395-as-birds-unto-the-genial-homeland\/","title":{"rendered":"395 \u2013 As Birds Unto the Genial Homeland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1<br \/>\nAs birds unto the genial homeland fly,<br \/>\nThe winter&#8217;s cold and low&#8217;ring skies to flee,<br \/>\nSo seeks my soul Thy gracious presence here<br \/>\nAnd finds, O God, its rest and peace in Thee.<\/p>\n<p>2<br \/>\nHere at Thy shrine we leave all vexing care,<br \/>\nFor get the disappointment, grief and tear,<br \/>\nAnd on the wings of hopeful song and prayer<br \/>\nWe rise, and rising feel Thy Spirit here.<\/p>\n<p>3<br \/>\nBless all who spend this night in pain and woe,<br \/>\nThe burdened heart, the fainting, and distressed,<br \/>\nThy comfort send to darkened homes bereaved,<br \/>\nThy saving help to those by want oppressed.<\/p>\n<p>4<br \/>\nCome, Sabbath joy, each trusting heart now fill,<br \/>\nAnd blissful peace within our homes abide,<br \/>\nMay thankful praise each grateful heart now thrill,<br \/>\nAnd to God&#8217;s loving care their lives confide.<\/p>\n<p>395 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 As birds unto the genial homeland fly, The winter&#8217;s cold and low&#8217;ring skies to flee, So seeks my soul Thy gracious presence here And finds, O God, its rest and peace in Thee. 2 Here at Thy shrine we leave all vexing care, For get the disappointment, grief and tear, And on the wings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,47,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-301-400","category-doctrines","category-sabbath"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632","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=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6685,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions\/6685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}