{"id":4020,"date":"2025-11-01T12:40:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T12:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/?p=4020"},"modified":"2025-11-02T12:52:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T12:52:58","slug":"a-hymn-for-all-saints-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/2025\/11\/01\/a-hymn-for-all-saints-day\/","title":{"rendered":"A Hymn for All Saints Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<body>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/For-All-The-Saints-Immanuel-Congregational-Church.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">\u201cFor All The Saints\u201d (verses 1, 2, 4)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">For All the Saints (Tune \u201cSine Nomine), written by William How. <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>For all the saints who from their labours rest,<br>All who by faith before the world confessed,<br>Thy name, O Jesus, be for ever blest.<br>Alleluia! Alleluia!<br><br>Thou wert their rock, their fortress and their might;<br>Thou, Lord, their Captain in the well-fought fight;<br>Thou in the darkness drear, their one true light.<br>Alleluia! Alleluia!<br><br>O may thy soldiers, faithful, true and bold,<br>Fight as the saints who nobly fought of old,<br>And win with them, the victor\u2019s crown of gold.<br>Alleluia! Alleluia!<br><br>O blest communion, family divine!<br>We feebly struggle, they in glory shine;<br>Yet all are one within thy great design.<br>Alleluia! Alleluia!<br><br>And when the strife is fierce, the warfare long,<br>Steals on the ear the distant triumph song,<br>And hearts are brave again, and arms are strong.<br>Alleluia! Alleluia!<br><br>The golden evening brightens in the west;<br>Soon, soon to faithful warriors comes their rest;<br>Sweet is the calm of paradise the blest.<br>Alleluia! Alleluia!<br><br>But then there breaks a yet more glorious day:<br>The saints triumphant rise in bright array;<br>The King of glory passes on his way.<br>Alleluia! Alleluia!<br><br>From earth\u2019s wide bounds, from ocean\u2019s farthest coast,<br>Through gates of pearl streams in the countless host.<br>Singing to Father, Son, and Holy Ghost:<br>Alleluia! Alleluia!<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For All the Saints (Tune \u201cSine Nomine), written by William How. For all the saints who from their labours rest,All who by faith before the world confessed,Thy name, O Jesus, be for ever blest.Alleluia! Alleluia! Thou wert their rock, their fortress and their might;Thou, Lord, their Captain in the well-fought fight;Thou in the darkness drear, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[310,65],"tags":[1277,677],"class_list":["post-4020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feasts-and-seasons","category-music","tag-for-all-the-saints","tag-feasts-and-seasons"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4022,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4020\/revisions\/4022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}