{"id":16213,"date":"2022-01-02T12:20:53","date_gmt":"2022-01-02T17:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=16213"},"modified":"2022-01-08T19:41:41","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T00:41:41","slug":"sunday-singing-amazing-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=16213","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Singing: Amazing Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Amazing Grace with more than 200 bagpipes;  live in Berlin\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xKQULTTnaI8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Amazing Grace, sung by Carl Ellis with over 200 bagpipes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">John Newton&#8217;s 1779 hymn is sung the world over. I believe some congregations sing it every Sunday. My congregation sings it after every communion, which we celebrate on the first Sunday of each month. Despite all of that singing, it&#8217;s still a good hymn for the new year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Hartford Selection of Hymns (1799) offers these three verses as 4-6, which may be where the most of the variations come in (they are not in the video above either).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Lord has promis&#8217;d good to me,<br>His word my hope secures;<br>He will my shield and portion be,<br>As long as life endures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes, when this flesh and heart shall fail,<br>And mortal life shall cease;<br>I shall possess within the vzil,<br>A life of joy and peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The earth shall soon dissolve like snow,<br>The sun forbear to shine;<br>But God, who call&#8217;d me here below,<br>Will be forever mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Newton&#8217;s 1779 hymn is sung the world over. I believe some congregations sing it every Sunday. My congregation sings it after every communion, which we celebrate on the first Sunday of each month. Despite all of that singing, it&#8217;s still a good hymn for the new year. The Hartford Selection of Hymns (1799) offers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=16213\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday Singing: Amazing Grace<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[1254,3999,3966],"class_list":["post-16213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-hymns","tag-john-newton","tag-sunday-singing"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16214,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16213\/revisions\/16214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}