{"id":17216,"date":"2022-08-28T08:10:48","date_gmt":"2022-08-28T12:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=17216"},"modified":"2022-08-28T08:10:48","modified_gmt":"2022-08-28T12:10:48","slug":"sunday-singing-let-children-hear-the-mighty-deeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=17216","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Singing: Let Children Hear the Mighty Deeds"},"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=\"Let Children Hear the Mighty Deeds - Messiah&#039;s Choir\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KN7iGI-7OtI?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>&#8220;Let Children Hear the Mighty Deeds&#8221; performed by Messiah&#8217;s Congregation of Maine Choir<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Let Children Hear the Mighty Deeds&#8221; was written by the great Isaac Watts, D.D. (1674-1748). The original 1917 title was &#8220;Providence of God Recorded; or, Pious Education and Instruction of Children.&#8221; It draws from the first part of Psalm 78, which says, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We will not hide them from their children,<br>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0but tell to the coming generation<br>the glorious deeds of the\u00a0Lord, and his might,<br>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and the wonders which he has wrought.&#8221; (v.4 RSV)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The tune is one of twelve common hymn tunes published in a 1615 Scottish psalter, rearranged to be more upbeat by Theodore Ferris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1 Let children hear the mighty deeds<br>which God performed of old,<br>which in our younger years we saw<br>and which our fathers told.<br>He bids us make his glories known,<br>the works of pow&#8217;r and grace,<br>that we convey his wonders down<br>through ev&#8217;ry rising race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2 Our lips shall tell them to our sons,<br>and they again to theirs,<br>and generations yet unborn<br>must teach them to their heirs.<br>Thus shall they learn, in God alone<br>their hope securely stands,<br>that they may ne&#8217;er forget his works,<br>but practice his commands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Let Children Hear the Mighty Deeds&#8221; was written by the great Isaac Watts, D.D. 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The original 1917 title was &#8220;Providence of God Recorded; or, Pious Education and Instruction of Children.&#8221; It draws from the first part of Psalm 78, which says, &#8220;We will not hide them from their children,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0but tell to the coming generationthe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=17216\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday Singing: Let Children Hear the Mighty Deeds<\/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":[1254,3966],"class_list":["post-17216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-hymns","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\/17216","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=17216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17217,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17216\/revisions\/17217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}