{"id":7784,"date":"2019-09-30T04:47:59","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/faith-of-our-fathers\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:47:59","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:47:59","slug":"faith-of-our-fathers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/faith-of-our-fathers\/","title":{"rendered":"Faith of Our Fathers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1.    Faith of our fathers, living still<br \/>\n         In spite of dungeon, fire and sword\u2013<br \/>\n      O how our hearts beat high with joy<br \/>\n         Whene\u2019er we hear that gracious word!<br \/>\nChorus<br \/>\n      Faith of our fathers, holy faith,<br \/>\n      We will be true to thee till death!<\/p>\n<p>2.    Our fathers, chained in prisons dark,<br \/>\n         Were still in heart and conscience free;<br \/>\n      How sweet would be their children\u2019s fate<br \/>\n         If they, like them, could die for thee!<\/p>\n<p>3.    Faith of our fathers, we will love<br \/>\n         Both friend and foe in all our strife;<br \/>\n      And preach thee too, as love knows how,<br \/>\n         By kindly words and virtuous life.<\/p>\n<p>[Tune: \u201cSt Catherine\u201d]<\/p>\n<p>[This hymn, unfortunately, has a tendency to look on faith as a set of doctrines rather than as a relationship of trust of the believer in God.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Faith of our fathers, living still In spite of dungeon, fire and sword\u2013 O how our hearts beat high with joy Whene\u2019er we hear that gracious word! Chorus Faith of our fathers, holy faith, We will be true to thee till death! 2. Our fathers, chained in prisons dark, Were still in heart and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[74,128,470,471,472],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7784"}],"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=7784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}