{"id":18387,"date":"2023-06-25T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=18387"},"modified":"2023-06-24T20:34:15","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T00:34:15","slug":"sunday-singing-ancient-of-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=18387","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Singing: Ancient of Days"},"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=\"Ancient of Days - Classic Old Christian a Cappella Hymns with Lyrics\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yg1eg0SFS0Q?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><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s hymn was written by American William Croswell Doane (1832-1913), the first bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Albany, New York. He wrote this hymn for the bicentenary of the City of Albany, 1886.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1 Ancient of Days, who sittest\u00a0throned in glory;<br>To Thee all knees are bent, all voices pray;<br>Thy love hath\u00a0blest the wide world\u2019s wondrous story<br>With light and life since Eden\u2019s dawning day.<br><br>2 O Holy Father, who hast led Thy children<br>In all the ages, with the\u00a0fire and\u00a0cloud,<br>Through seas dry-shod, through weary wastes bewildering;<br>To Thee, in reverent love, our hearts are bowed.<br><br>3 O Holy Jesus, Prince of Peace,\u00a0and Savior,<br>To Thee we owe the peace that still prevails,<br>Stilling the rude wills of men\u2019s wild behavior,<br>And calming passion\u2019s\u00a0wild\u00a0and stormy gales.<br><br>4 O Holy Ghost, the Lord and the Life-giver,<br>Thine is the quickening power that gives increase;<br>From Thee have flowed, as from a\u00a0pleasant\u00a0river,<br>Our plenty, wealth, prosperity,\u00a0and peace.<br><br>5 O Triune God, with heart and voice adoring,<br>Praise we the goodness that doth crown our days;<br>Pray we,\u00a0that Thou wilt hear us, still imploring<br>Thy love and favor, kept to us always.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s hymn was written by American William Croswell Doane (1832-1913), the first bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Albany, New York. He wrote this hymn for the bicentenary of the City of Albany, 1886. 1 Ancient of Days, who sittest\u00a0throned in glory;To Thee all knees are bent, all voices pray;Thy love hath\u00a0blest the wide world\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=18387\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday Singing: Ancient of Days<\/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-18387","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\/18387","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=18387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18388,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18387\/revisions\/18388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}