{"id":25198,"date":"2025-06-23T00:01:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T00:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=25198"},"modified":"2025-06-23T00:01:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T00:01:02","slug":"fairest-lord-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2025\/06\/fairest-lord-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"Fairest Lord Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1 Fairest Lord Jesus,<br \/>\nruler of all nature,<br \/>\nO thou of God and man the Son,<br \/>\nThee will I cherish,<br \/>\nThee will I honor,<br \/>\nthou, my soul&#8217;s glory, joy, and crown.<\/p>\n<p>2 Fair are the meadows,<br \/>\nfairer still the woodlands,<br \/>\nrobed in the blooming garb of spring:<br \/>\nJesus is fairer,<br \/>\nJesus is purer<br \/>\nwho makes the woeful heart to sing.<\/p>\n<p>3 Fair is the sunshine,<br \/>\nfairer still the moonlight,<br \/>\nand all the twinkling starry host:<br \/>\nJesus shines brighter,<br \/>\nJesus shines purer<br \/>\nthan all the angels heaven can boast.<\/p>\n<p>4 Beautiful Savior!<br \/>\nLord of all the nations!<br \/>\nSon of God and Son of Man!<br \/>\nGlory and honor,<br \/>\npraise, adoration,<br \/>\nnow and forevermore be thine.<\/p>\n<div class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"25198\" 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 Fairest Lord Jesus,<br \/>\nruler of all nature,<br \/>\nO thou of God and man the Son,<br \/>\nThee will I cherish,<br \/>\nThee will I honor,<br \/>\nthou, my soul&#8217;s glory, joy, and crown.<\/p>\n<p>2 Fair are the meadows,<br \/>\nfairer still the woodlands,<br \/>\nrobed in the blooming garb of spring:<br \/>\nJesus is fairer,<br \/>\nJesus is purer<br \/>\nwho makes the woeful heart to sing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":25200,"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-25198","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\/25198","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=25198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25201,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25198\/revisions\/25201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}