{"id":7783,"date":"2019-09-30T04:47:59","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/blest-be-the-tie-that-binds\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:47:59","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:47:59","slug":"blest-be-the-tie-that-binds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/blest-be-the-tie-that-binds\/","title":{"rendered":"Blest Be the Tie That Binds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blest be the tie that binds<br \/>\n         Our hearts in Christian love!<br \/>\n      The fellowship of kindred minds<br \/>\n         Is like to that above.<\/p>\n<p>      Before our Father&#8217;s throne<br \/>\n         We pour our ardent prayers;<br \/>\n      Our fears, our hopes, our aims are one,<br \/>\n         Our comforts and our cares.<\/p>\n<p>      We share our mutual woes,<br \/>\n         Our mutual burdens bear;<br \/>\n      And often for each other flows<br \/>\n         The sympathizing tear.<\/p>\n<p>      When we asunder part<br \/>\n         It gives us inward pain;<br \/>\n      But we shall still be joined in heart,<br \/>\n         And hope to meet again.<\/p>\n<p>[Tune \u201cDennis\u201d; see illustration #13371 noting that \u201c54\u201d in last sentence of third paragraph should probably read \u201c45\u201d \u2014 RGH]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blest be the tie that binds Our hearts in Christian love! The fellowship of kindred minds Is like to that above. Before our Father&#8217;s throne We pour our ardent prayers; Our fears, our hopes, our aims are one, Our comforts and our cares. We share our mutual woes, Our mutual burdens bear; And often for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[74,79,137,12,467,468,469],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}