{"id":25439,"date":"2025-08-12T02:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T02:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=25439"},"modified":"2025-08-12T02:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T02:17:08","slug":"how-pleasant-how-divinely-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2025\/08\/how-pleasant-how-divinely-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"How Pleasant, How Divinely Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1 How pleasant, how divinely fair,<\/p>\n<p>O Lord of Hosts, Thy dwellings are!<\/p>\n<p>With long desire my spirit faints,<\/p>\n<p>To meet the assemblies of Thy saints.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>2 Blest are the saints who sit on high,<\/p>\n<p>Around the throne of Majesty;<\/p>\n<p>Thy brightest glories shine above,<\/p>\n<p>And all their work is praise and love.<\/p>\n<p>3 Blest are the souls that find a place,<\/p>\n<p>Within the temple of Thy grace;<\/p>\n<p>There they behold Thy gentler rays,<\/p>\n<p>And seek Thy face, and learn Thy praise.<\/p>\n<p>4 Blest are the men whose hearts are set,<\/p>\n<p>To find the way to Zion\u2019s gate;<\/p>\n<p>God is their strength, and through the road,<\/p>\n<p>They lean upon their helper, God.<\/p>\n<div class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"25439\" 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 How pleasant, how divinely fair,<\/p>\n<p>O Lord of Hosts, Thy dwellings are!<\/p>\n<p>With long desire my spirit faints,<\/p>\n<p>To meet the assemblies of Thy saints.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>2 Blest are the saints who sit on high,<\/p>\n<p>Around the throne of Majesty;\u2028<\/p>\n<p>Thy brightest glories shine above,<\/p>\n<p>And all their work is praise and love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":25440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1279,1282],"tags":[1223],"class_list":["post-25439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-triune-jehovah","category-isaac-watts-hymns","tag-divine-worship","post_format-post-format-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25439","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=25439"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25444,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25439\/revisions\/25444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}