{"id":775,"date":"2010-04-12T19:47:44","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T02:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sdahymnal.spicercampus.com\/hymnal\/?p=775"},"modified":"2017-08-13T16:32:12","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T16:32:12","slug":"291-we-have-not-known-thee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/291-we-have-not-known-thee\/","title":{"rendered":"291 \u2013 We Have Not Known Thee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1<br \/>\nWe have not known Thee as we ought,<br \/>\nNor learned Thy wisdom, grace, and power;<br \/>\nThe things of earth have filed our thoughts,<br \/>\nAnd trifles of the passing hour.<br \/>\nLord, give us light Thy truth to see,<br \/>\nAnd make us wise in knowing Thee.<\/p>\n<p>2<br \/>\nWe have not feared Thee as we ought,<br \/>\nNor bowed beneath Thine awful eye,<br \/>\nNor guarded deed, and word, and thought,<br \/>\nRemembering that God was nigh.<br \/>\nLord, give us faith to know Thee near,<br \/>\nAnd grant the grace of holy fear.<\/p>\n<p>3<br \/>\nWe have not loved Thee as we ought,<br \/>\nNor cared that we are loved by Thee;<br \/>\nThy presence we have coldly sought,<br \/>\nAnd feebly longed Thy face to see.<br \/>\nLord, give a pure and loving heart<br \/>\nTo feel and own the love Thou art.<\/p>\n<p>4<br \/>\nWe have not served Thee as we ought;<br \/>\nAlas! the duties left undone,<br \/>\nThe work with little fervor wrought,<br \/>\nThe battles lost, or scarcely won!<br \/>\nLord, give the zeal, and give the might,<br \/>\nFor Thee to toil, for Thee to fight.<\/p>\n<p>5<br \/>\nWhen shall we know Thee as we ought,<br \/>\nAnd fear, and love, and serve aright!<br \/>\nWhen shall we, out of trial brought,<br \/>\nBe perfect in the land of light!<br \/>\nLord, may we day by day prepare<br \/>\nTo see Thy face, and serve Thee there.<\/p>\n<p>291 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 We have not known Thee as we ought, Nor learned Thy wisdom, grace, and power; The things of earth have filed our thoughts, And trifles of the passing hour. Lord, give us light Thy truth to see, And make us wise in knowing Thee. 2 We have not feared Thee as we ought, Nor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,57,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-201-300","category-gospel","category-repentance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775","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=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6581,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions\/6581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}