{"id":4944,"date":"2019-12-11T18:08:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T23:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/?page_id=4944"},"modified":"2019-12-11T10:47:49","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T15:47:49","slug":"good-tidings-of-great-joy-to-all-people","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/hymn-of-the-day\/good-tidings-of-great-joy-to-all-people\/","title":{"rendered":"GOOD TIDINGS OF GREAT JOY TO ALL PEOPLE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The last verse of this old Christmas carol was new to me. What a great thought to anyone drowning in sin and guilt. Mercy calls you &#8211; come and worship!<\/p>\n<p>JAMES MONTGOMERY<br \/><br \/>I<br \/>Angels from the realms of glory,<br \/>Wing your flight o&#8217;er all the earth,<br \/>Ye who sang creation&#8217;s story,<br \/>Now proclaim Messiah&#8217;s birth;<br \/>Come and worship,<br \/>Worship Christ the new-born King.<br \/>II<br \/>Shepherds, in the field abiding.<br \/>Watching o&#8217;er your flocks by night,<br \/>God with man is now residing,<br \/>Yonder shines the infant-light;<br \/>Come and worship,<br \/>Worship Christ the new-born King.<br \/>III<br \/>Sages, leave your contemplations, <br \/>Brighter visions beam afar. <br \/>Seek the great Desire of Nations;<br \/>Ye have seen his natal star;<br \/>Come and worship,<br \/>Worship Christ the new-born King.<br \/>IV<br \/>Saints, before the altar bending,<br \/>Watching long in hope and fear,<br \/>Suddenly the Lord descending<br \/>In His temple shall appear;<br \/>Come and worship,<br \/>Worship Christ the new-born King.<br \/>V<br \/>Sinners, wrung with true repentance, <br \/>Doom&#8217;d for guilt to endless pains, <br \/>Justice now revokes the sentence, <br \/>Mercy calls you \u2014 break your chains; <br \/>Come and worship,<br \/>Worship Christ the new-born King.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last verse of this old Christmas carol was new to me. What a great thought to anyone drowning in sin and guilt. Mercy calls you &#8211; come and worship! JAMES MONTGOMERY IAngels from the realms of glory,Wing your flight o&#8217;er all the earth,Ye who sang creation&#8217;s story,Now proclaim Messiah&#8217;s birth;Come and worship,Worship Christ the&hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"readmore-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/hymn-of-the-day\/good-tidings-of-great-joy-to-all-people\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read <\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":692,"menu_order":325,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4944","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P1MnZf-1hK","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4945,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4944\/revisions\/4945"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}