\u201cHow precious is the Book Divine\u201d from “Hymns Adapted to the Circumstances of Public Worship and Private Devotion”, by John Fawcett, British-born Baptist pastor, theologian, and hymn writer; 1739 \u2013 1817.<\/p>\n
The music for this reading is “Meditation Music #1<\/a>” by Kobi Rivlin<\/a> and was adapted for length under a Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC 3.0<\/a>); “Love & Generosity<\/a>” and “Christmas Eve<\/a>” both by Borrtex<\/a> and were adapted for length under a Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC 4.0<\/a>)<\/p>\n How precious is the Book Divine, Its light, descending from above It shows to us our wand’ring ways O’er all the straight and narrow way It sweetly cheers our drooping hearts This lamp through all the tedious night Oh precious book of light and life Oh precious book whose light e\u2019er shines <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cHow precious is the Book Divine\u201d from “Hymns Adapted to the Circumstances of Public Worship and Private Devotion”, by John Fawcett, British-born Baptist pastor, theologian, and hymn writer; 1739 \u2013 1817. The music for this reading is “Meditation Music #1” by Kobi Rivlin and was adapted for length under a Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC…<\/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-12695","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\/12695","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=12695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12696,"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12695\/revisions\/12696"}],"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=12695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBy inspiration giv’n!
\nBright as a lamp its doctrines shine
\nTo guide our souls to heav’n,<\/p>\n
\nOur gloomy world to cheer,
\nDisplays a Savior’s boundless love
\nAnd brings His glories near,<\/p>\n
\nAnd where his feet have trod,
\nAnd brings to view the matchless grace
\nOf a forgiving God,<\/p>\n
\nIts radiant beams are cast;
\nA light whose never weary ray
\nGrows brightest at the last,<\/p>\n
\nIn this dark vale of tears,
\nLife, light, and joy it still imparts
\nAnd quells our rising fears,<\/p>\n
\nOf life shall guide our way
\nTill we behold the clearer light
\nOf an eternal day,<\/p>\n
\nThou source of truth and love,
\nIn Thee we view God\u2019s matchless grace,
\nAnd all His goodness prove,<\/p>\n
\nWith bright and cheering ray,
\nTo guide our souls until the dawn
\nOf the eternal day.<\/p>\n