{"id":8897,"date":"2025-12-14T10:16:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T10:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/2025\/12\/14\/hymn-287-softly-and-tenderly-lyrics\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T10:16:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T10:16:01","slug":"hymn-287-softly-and-tenderly-lyrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/new-english-seventh-day-adventist-hymnal\/hymn-287-softly-and-tenderly-lyrics\/","title":{"rendered":"Hymn 287 SOFTLY AND TENDERLY Lyrics"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"entry-title\">New English Seventh Day Adventist Hymnal<\/h2>\n<h2>Hymn 287 SOFTLY AND TENDERLY Lyrics<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1<br \/>\nSoftly and tenderly Jesus is calling,<br \/>\nCalling for you and for me;<br \/>\nSee, on the portals He&#8217;s waiting and watching,<br \/>\nWatching for you and for me.<\/p>\n<p>CHORUS:<br \/>\nCome home, come home;<br \/>\nYe who are weary come home;<br \/>\nEarnestly, tenderly, Jesus is calling,<br \/>\nCalling, O sinner, come home!<\/p>\n<p>2<br \/>\nWhy should we tary when Jesus is pleading,<br \/>\nPleading for you and for me?<br \/>\nWhy should we linger and heed not His mercies,<br \/>\nMercies for you and for me?<\/p>\n<p>3<br \/>\nThink of the wonderful love He has promised,<br \/>\nPromised for you and for me!<br \/>\nThough we have sinned, He has mercy and pardon,<br \/>\nPardon for you and for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New English Seventh Day Adventist Hymnal Hymn 287 SOFTLY AND TENDERLY Lyrics &nbsp; 1 Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling, Calling for you and for me; See, on the portals He&#8217;s waiting and watching, Watching for you and for me. CHORUS: Come home, come home; Ye who are weary come home; Earnestly, tenderly, Jesus is [&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-8897","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\/8897","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=8897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}