1
\nIn the cross of Christ I glory,
\ntowering o’er the wrecks of time;
\nall the light of sacred story
\ngathers round its head sublime.<\/p>\n
2
\nWhen the woes of life o’ertake me,
\nhopes deceive, and fears annoy,
\nnever shall the cross forsake me.
\nLo! it glows with peace and joy.<\/p>\n
3
\nWhen the sun of bliss is beaming
\nlight and love upon my way,
\nfrom the cross the radiance streaming
\nadds more luster to the day.<\/p>\n
4
\nBane and blessing, pain and pleasure,
\nby the cross are sanctified;
\npeace is there that knows no measure,
\njoys that through all time abide.<\/p>\n
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1 In the cross of Christ I glory, towering o’er the wrecks of time; all the light of sacred story gathers round its head sublime. 2 When the woes of life o’ertake me, hopes deceive, and fears annoy, never shall the cross forsake me. Lo! it glows with peace and joy. 3 When the sun of bliss is beaming light and love upon my way, from the cross the radiance streaming adds more luster to the day. 4 Bane and blessing, pain and pleasure, by the cross are sanctified; peace is there that knows no measure, joys that through all <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,123,66,69,273,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-201-300","category-glory-and-praise","category-i","category-jesus-christ","category-john-bowring","category-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851","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=851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6527,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions\/6527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}