{"id":9165,"date":"2025-12-14T10:16:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T10:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/2025\/12\/14\/hymn-555-shepherd-of-tender-youth-lyrics\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T10:16:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T10:16:44","slug":"hymn-555-shepherd-of-tender-youth-lyrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/new-english-seventh-day-adventist-hymnal\/hymn-555-shepherd-of-tender-youth-lyrics\/","title":{"rendered":"Hymn 555 SHEPHERD OF TENDER YOUTH Lyrics"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"entry-title\">New English Seventh Day Adventist Hymnal<\/h2>\n<h2>Hymn 555 SHEPHERD OF TENDER YOUTH Lyrics<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1<br \/>\nShepherd of tender youth,<br \/>\nGuiding in love and truth,<br \/>\nThrough devious ways;<br \/>\nChrist our triumphant King,<br \/>\nWe come Thy name to sing,<br \/>\nHither our children bring<br \/>\nTo shout Thy praise.<\/p>\n<p>2<br \/>\nThou are our holy Lord,<br \/>\nThe all subduing Word,<br \/>\nHealer of strife;<br \/>\nThou didst Thyself abase,<br \/>\nThat from sin&#8217;s deep disgrace<br \/>\nThou mightest save our race,<br \/>\nAnd give us life.<\/p>\n<p>3<br \/>\nThou are the great High Priest;<br \/>\nThou hast prepared the feast<br \/>\nOf heavenly love;<br \/>\nWhile in our mortal pain<br \/>\nNone call on Thee in vain;<br \/>\nHelp Thou does not disdain,<br \/>\nHelp from above.<\/p>\n<p>4<br \/>\nEver be Thou our Guide,<br \/>\nOur Shepherd and our pride,<br \/>\nOur staff and song;<br \/>\nJesus, Thou Christ of God,<br \/>\nBy Thy perennial word,<br \/>\nLead us where Thou hast trod,<br \/>\nMake our faith strong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New English Seventh Day Adventist Hymnal Hymn 555 SHEPHERD OF TENDER YOUTH Lyrics &nbsp; 1 Shepherd of tender youth, Guiding in love and truth, Through devious ways; Christ our triumphant King, We come Thy name to sing, Hither our children bring To shout Thy praise. 2 Thou are our holy Lord, The all subduing Word, [&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-9165","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\/9165","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=9165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}