The Olney Hymns, Book 1, #62, “Gospel Privileges” by John Newton, English Anglican clergyman (1725 \u2013 1807)<\/p>\n
The music for this reading is \u201cMotion<\/a>\u201d by Borrtex<\/a> and was adapted for length under a Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC 4.0)<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n O happy they who know the Lord,<\/span><\/p>\n With whom He deigns to dwell !<\/span><\/p>\n He feeds and cheers them by His Word,<\/span><\/p>\n His arm supports them well.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n To them, in each distressing hour,<\/span><\/p>\n His throne of grace is near ;<\/span><\/p>\n And when they plead His love and power,<\/span><\/p>\n He stands engaged to hear.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n He help’d His saints in ancient days,<\/span><\/p>\n Who trusted in His name ;<\/span><\/p>\n And we can witness, to His praise,<\/span><\/p>\n His love is still the same.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Wand’ring in sin our souls He found,<\/span><\/p>\n And bade us seek His face ;<\/span><\/p>\n Gave us to hear the Gospel-sound,<\/span><\/p>\n And taste the Gospel-grace.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Oft in His house His glory shines<\/span><\/p>\n Before our wond’ring eyes ;<\/span><\/p>\n We wish not then for golden mines,<\/span><\/p>\n Or aught beneath the skies.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n His presence sweetens all our cares,<\/span><\/p>\n And makes our burdens light ;<\/span><\/p>\n A word from Him dispels our fears,<\/span><\/p>\n And gilds the gloom of night.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Lord, we expect to suffer here,<\/span><\/p>\n Nor would we dare repine ;<\/span><\/p>\n But give us still to find Thee near,<\/span><\/p>\n And own us still for Thine.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Let us enjoy and highly prize<\/span><\/p>\n These tokens of Thy love,<\/span><\/p>\n Till Thou shalt bid our spirits rise,<\/span><\/p>\n To worship Thee above.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Olney Hymns, Book 1, #62, “Gospel Privileges” by John Newton, English Anglican clergyman (1725 \u2013 1807) The music for this reading is \u201cMotion\u201d by Borrtex and was adapted for length under a Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC 4.0). O happy they who know the Lord, With whom He deigns to dwell ! He…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"_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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"tve_updated_post":"","tve_custom_css":"","tve_user_custom_css":"","tve_globals":{},"tcb2_ready":1,"tcb_editor_enabled":0,"tve_landing_page":"","_tve_header":"","_tve_footer":""},"categories":[684],"tags":[680],"class_list":["post-12362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-unsung-hymns-podcast","tag-devotional","post_format-post-format-audio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/TUHP-Post_Image_800HX500H.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12363,"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12362\/revisions\/12363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}