{"id":25149,"date":"2025-06-19T02:23:56","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T02:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=25149"},"modified":"2025-06-19T02:23:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T02:23:56","slug":"joyful-joyful-we-adore-thee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2025\/06\/joyful-joyful-we-adore-thee\/","title":{"rendered":"Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1 Joyful, joyful, we adore Thee,<br \/>\nGod of glory, Lord of love;<br \/>\nHearts unfold like flow&#8217;rs before Thee,<br \/>\nOp&#8217;ning to the sun above.<br \/>\nMelt the clouds of sin and sadness;<br \/>\nDrive the dark of doubt away;<br \/>\nGiver of immortal gladness,<br \/>\nFill us with the light of day!<\/p>\n<p>2 All Thy works with joy surround Thee,<br \/>\nEarth and heav&#8217;n reflect Thy rays,<br \/>\nStars and angels sing around Thee,<br \/>\nCenter of unbroken praise;<br \/>\nField and forest, vale and mountain,<br \/>\nFlow&#8217;ry meadow, flashing sea,<br \/>\nChanting bird and flowing fountain<br \/>\nPraising Thee eternally!<\/p>\n<p>3 Always giving and forgiving,<br \/>\nEver blessing, ever blest,<br \/>\nWell-spring of the joy of living,<br \/>\nOcean-depth of happy rest!<br \/>\nLoving Father, Christ our Brother,<br \/>\nLet Thy light upon us shine;<br \/>\nTeach us how to love each other,<br \/>\nLift us to the joy divine.<\/p>\n<p>4 Mortals, join the mighty chorus,<br \/>\nWhich the morning stars began;<br \/>\nGod&#8217;s own love is reigning o\u2019er us,<br \/>\nJoining people hand in hand.<br \/>\nEver singing, march we onward,<br \/>\nVictors in the midst of strife;<br \/>\nJoyful music leads us sunward<br \/>\nIn the triumph song of life.<\/p>\n<div class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"25149\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"box-shadow:none;-webkit-box-shadow:none;-moz-box-shadow:none;\"><div class=\"bookmark-off\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 Joyful, joyful, we adore Thee,<br \/>\nGod of glory, Lord of love;<br \/>\nHearts unfold like flow&#8217;rs before Thee,<br \/>\nOp&#8217;ning to the sun above.<br \/>\nMelt the clouds of sin and sadness;<br \/>\nDrive the dark of doubt away;<br \/>\nGiver of immortal gladness,<br \/>\nFill us with the light of day!<\/p>\n<p>2 All Thy works with joy surround Thee,<br \/>\nEarth and heav&#8217;n reflect Thy rays,<br \/>\nStars and angels sing around Thee,<br \/>\nCenter of unbroken praise;<br \/>\nField and forest, vale and mountain,<br \/>\nFlow&#8217;ry meadow, flashing sea,<br \/>\nChanting bird and flowing fountain<br \/>\nPraising Thee eternally!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":25147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1279],"tags":[1223],"class_list":["post-25149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-triune-jehovah","tag-divine-worship","post_format-post-format-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25149"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25152,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25149\/revisions\/25152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}