{"id":15451,"date":"2025-05-28T01:00:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T05:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/?p=15451"},"modified":"2025-06-16T07:10:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T11:10:13","slug":"the-unsung-hymns-podcast-20-religion-is-the-chief-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/2025\/05\/28\/the-unsung-hymns-podcast-20-religion-is-the-chief-concern\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unsung Hymns Podcast – 20 – Religion Is The Chief Concern"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cReligion Is The Chief Concern\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.<\/span><\/p>\n

The music for this reading is “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

Religion is the chief concern
\nOf mortals here below:
\nMay I its great importance learn
\nIts sovereign virtue know!<\/p>\n

More needful this than glittering wealth
\nOr aught the world bestows;
\nNor reputation, food nor health,
\nCan give us such repose.<\/p>\n

Religion should our thoughts engage,
\nAmidst our youthful bloom;
\n\u2019Twill fit us for declining age,
\nAnd for the awful tomb.<\/p>\n

O may my heart, by grace renewed,
\nBe my Redeemer\u2019s throne;
\nAnd be my stubborn will subdued,
\nHis government to own!<\/p>\n

Let deep repentance, faith, and love
\nBe joined with godly fear;
\nAnd all my conversation prove
\nMy heart to be sincere.<\/p>\n

Let lively hope my soul inspire;
\nLet warm affections rise;
\nAnd may I wait with strong desire
\nTo mount above the skies!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cReligion Is The Chief Concern\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 “Love & Generosity” and “Christmas Eve” both by Borrtex and were adapted for length under a Creative Commons License…<\/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":[680,547],"class_list":["post-15451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-unsung-hymns-podcast","tag-devotional","tag-hymn","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\/15451","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=15451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15452,"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15451\/revisions\/15452"}],"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=15451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}