{"id":4382,"date":"2023-03-25T20:13:07","date_gmt":"2023-03-25T20:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=4382"},"modified":"2023-03-25T20:13:07","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T20:13:07","slug":"softly-and-tenderly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=4382","title":{"rendered":"Softly and Tenderly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><em>Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling,<br>Calling for you and for me;<br>See, on the portals He\u2019s waiting and watching,<br>Watching for you and for me.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Refrain:<br><em>Come home, come home,<br>You who are weary, come home;<br>Earnestly, tenderly, Jesus is calling,<br>Calling, O sinner, come home!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em><strong>Why should we tarry when Jesus is pleading,<br>Pleading for you and for me?<br>Why should we linger and heed not His mercies,<br>Mercies for you and for me?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Time is now fleeting, the moments are passing,<br>Passing from you and from me;<br>Shadows are gathering, deathbeds are coming,<br>Coming for you and for me.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em><strong>Oh, for the wonderful love He has promised,<br>Promised for you and for me!<br>Though we have sinned, He has mercy and pardon,<br>Pardon for you and for me.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Will L. Thompson,\u00a0pub.1880, Public Domain.<\/em>\u00a0<em>Courtesy of Timeless Truths Publications \u2013 Copyright \u00a9 2002-2020 Free Online Library<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling,Calling for you and for me;See, on the portals He\u2019s waiting and watching,Watching for you and for me. Refrain:Come home, come home,You who are weary, come home;Earnestly, tenderly, Jesus is calling,Calling, O sinner, come home! Why should we tarry when Jesus is pleading,Pleading for you and for me?Why should we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=4382\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Softly and Tenderly<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4382"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4387,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4382\/revisions\/4387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}