{"id":8804,"date":"2025-12-14T10:15:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T10:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/2025\/12\/14\/hymn-194-sing-we-of-the-modern-city-lyrics\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T10:15:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T10:15:51","slug":"hymn-194-sing-we-of-the-modern-city-lyrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/new-english-seventh-day-adventist-hymnal\/hymn-194-sing-we-of-the-modern-city-lyrics\/","title":{"rendered":"Hymn 194 SING WE OF THE MODERN CITY Lyrics"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"entry-title\">New English Seventh Day Adventist Hymnal<\/h2>\n<h2>Hymn 194 SING WE OF THE MODERN CITY Lyrics<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1<br \/>\nSing we of the modern city,<br \/>\nScene alike of joy and stress;<br \/>\nSing we of its nameless people<br \/>\nIn their urban wilderness.<br \/>\nInto endless rows of houses<br \/>\nLife is set a millionfold,<br \/>\nLife expressed in human beings<br \/>\nDaily born and growing old.<\/p>\n<p>2<br \/>\nIn the city full of people,<br \/>\nWorld of speed and hectic days,<br \/>\nIn the everchanging setting<br \/>\nOf the latest trend and craze,<br \/>\nChrist is present, and among us;<br \/>\nIn the crowd we see Him stand.<br \/>\nIn the bustle of the city<br \/>\nJesus Christ is every man.<\/p>\n<p>3<br \/>\nGod is not remote in heaven,<br \/>\nBut on earth to share our shame,<br \/>\nChanging graph and mass and number<br \/>\nInto persons with a name.<br \/>\nChrist has shown, beyond statistics,<br \/>\nHuman life with glory crowned,<br \/>\nBy His timeless presence proving<br \/>\nPeople matter, people count!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New English Seventh Day Adventist Hymnal Hymn 194 SING WE OF THE MODERN CITY Lyrics &nbsp; 1 Sing we of the modern city, Scene alike of joy and stress; Sing we of its nameless people In their urban wilderness. Into endless rows of houses Life is set a millionfold, Life expressed in human beings Daily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-english-seventh-day-adventist-hymnal"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}