{"id":25472,"date":"2010-04-10T20:00:02","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T00:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/04\/zeal-and-meekness\/"},"modified":"2010-04-10T20:00:02","modified_gmt":"2010-04-11T00:00:02","slug":"zeal-and-meekness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/04\/zeal-and-meekness\/","title":{"rendered":"Zeal and Meekness"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\">CHRIST bade His followers take the sword;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">And yet He chid the deed,<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">When Peter seized upon His word,<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">And made a foe to bleed.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">The gospel Creed, a sword of strife,<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Meek hands alone may rear;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">And ever Zeal begins its life<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">In silent thought and fear.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Ye, who would weed the Vineyard&#8217;s soil,<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Treasure the lesson given;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Lest in the judgment-books ye toil<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">For Satan, not for heaven.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>John Henry Newman<\/div>\n<div><i>Off Sardinia<\/i><\/div>\n<div><i>June 20, 1833<\/i><\/div>\n<div><i>Verses on Various Occasions,<\/i> 170<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHRIST bade His followers take the sword; And yet He chid the deed, When Peter seized upon His word, And made a foe to bleed. The gospel Creed, a sword of strife, Meek hands alone may rear; And ever Zeal begins its life In silent thought and fear. Ye, who would weed the Vineyard&#8217;s soil, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/04\/zeal-and-meekness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Zeal and Meekness<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[32085],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}