{"id":1862,"date":"2012-06-29T07:34:25","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T11:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=1862"},"modified":"2012-07-03T08:52:03","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T12:52:03","slug":"2-chronicles-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=1862","title":{"rendered":"(2 Chronicles 31) Or heard, but by our singing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the keeper of the East Gate,\u00a0 was\u00a0 over the freewill offerings to God, to distribute the offerings of the Lord and the most holy things. And under him\u00a0 were\u00a0 Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah,\u00a0 his\u00a0 faithful assistants in the cities of the priests, to distribute allotments to their brethren by divisions, to the great as well as the small.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah were faithful assistants. To be called faithful is to be paid the highest compliment. It certainly ought to be our highest aspiration.<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\nWe follow in his footsteps;<\/p>\n<p>What if our feet be torn?<\/p>\n<p>Where He has marked the pathway<\/p>\n<p>All hail the briar and thorn!<\/p>\n<p>Scarce seen, scarce heard,\u00a0unreckoned,<\/p>\n<p>Despised, defamed, unknown<\/p>\n<p>Or heard, but by our singing,<\/p>\n<p>On children, ever on!<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Gerhard Tersteegen, &#8220;Pilgrim Song&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the keeper of the East Gate,\u00a0 was\u00a0 over the freewill offerings to God, to distribute the offerings of the Lord and the most holy things. And under him\u00a0 were\u00a0 Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah,\u00a0 his\u00a0 faithful assistants in the cities of the priests, to distribute allotments &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=1862\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(2 Chronicles 31) Or heard, but by our singing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1862"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1879,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862\/revisions\/1879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}