sample_hymns.json

[
  {
    "title": "Oh for a thousand tongues to sing",
    "num": 1,
    "verses": [
      "O for a thousand tongues to sing\nMy great Redeemer's praise,\nThe glories of my God and king,\nThe triumphs of His grace!",
      "My gracious master and my God,\nAssist me to proclaim,\nTo spread through all the earth abroad\nThe honors of Thy name.",
      "Jesus! the name that charms our fears,\nThat bids our sorrows cease;\n'Tis music in the sinner's ears,\n'Tis life, and health, and peace.",
      "He breaks the power of canceled sin,\nHe sets the prisoner free;\nHis blood can make the foulest clean,\nHis blood availed for me.",
      "Hear Him, ye deaf; His praise, ye dumb,\nYour loosened tongues employ;\nYe blind, behold your Savior come,\nAnd leap, ye lame, for joy.",
      "Glory to God, and praise and love\nBe ever, ever given,\nBy saints below and saints above,\nThe church in earth and Heaven."
    ],
    "chorus": null,
    "id": "hymn_1",
    "attribution": {
      "credits": null,
      "music_by": "Azmon Carl G. Gl\u00e4ser, 1828; arranged by Lowell Mason, Modern Psalmist, 1839 .",
      "lyrics_by": "Charles Wesley, 1739. Wesley wrote this hymn to commemorate the first anniversary of his conversion to Christ. He notes in his Journal:"
    },
    "topic": 1,
    "first": "O for a thousand tongues to sing\nMy great Redeemer's praise,\nThe glories of my God and king,\nThe triumphs of His grace!"
  },
  {
    "title": "Praise to the Lord, the Almighty",
    "num": 2,
    "verses": [
      "Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the king of creation!\nO my soul, praise Him, for He is thy health and salvation!\nAll ye who hear, now to His temple draw near;\nPraise Him in glad adoration.",
      "Praise to the Lord, who over all things so wondrously reigneth,\nShelters thee under His wings, yea, so gently sustaineth!\nHast thou not seen how thy desires ever have been\nGranted in what He ordaineth?",
      "Praise to the Lord, who doth prosper thy work and defend thee;\nSurely His goodness and mercy here daily attend thee.\nPonder anew what the Almighty can do,\nIf with His love He befriend thee.",
      "Praise to the Lord , who with marvelous wisdom hath made thee!\nDecked thee with health, and with loving hand guided and stayed thee;\nHow oft in grief\nHath not He brought thee relief, \nSpreading His wings for thee to shade thee!",
      "Praise to the Lord, O let all that is in me adore Him!\nAll that hath life and breath, come now with praises before Him.\nLet the Amen sound from His people again,\nGladly for aye we adore Him."
    ],
    "chorus": null,
    "id": "hymn_2",
    "attribution": {
      "credits": null,
      "music_by": "Lobe den Herren Ander Theil des Erneuerten Gesangbuch, second edition (Bremen, Germany: 1665); harmony by William S. Bennett, 1864 .",
      "lyrics_by": "Joachim Neander, in A und \u03a9 Glaub- und Liebes\u00fcbung (Stralsund: 1680) (Lobe den Herren); translated from German to English by Catherine Winkworth, 1863."
    },
    "topic": 1,
    "first": "Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the king of creation!\nO my soul, praise Him, for He is thy health and salvation!\nAll ye who hear, now to His temple draw near;\nPraise Him in glad adoration."
  },
  {
    "title": "To God be the Glory",
    "num": 3,
    "verses": [
      "To God be the glory, great things He has done;\nSo loved He the world that He gave us His Son,\nWho yielded His life an atonement for sin,\nAnd opened the life gate that all may go in.",
      "O perfect redemption, the purchase of blood,\nTo every believer the promise of God;\nThe vilest offender who truly believes,\nThat moment from Jesus a pardon receives.",
      "Great things He has taught us, great things He has done,\nAnd great our rejoicing through Jesus the Son;\nBut purer, and higher, and greater will be\nOur wonder, our transport, when Jesus we see."
    ],
    "chorus": "Praise the Lord, praise the Lord,\nLet the earth hear His voice!\nPraise the Lord, praise the Lord,\nLet the people rejoice!\nO come to the Father, through Jesus the Son,\nAnd give Him the glory, great things He has done.",
    "id": "hymn_3",
    "attribution": {
      "credits": null,
      "music_by": "W. Howard Doane .",
      "lyrics_by": "Fanny Crosby, in Brightest and Best, by W. H. Doane & Robert Lowry (Chicago, Illinois: Biglow & Main, 1875), number 118."
    },
    "topic": 1,
    "first": "To God be the glory, great things He has done;\nSo loved He the world that He gave us His Son,\nWho yielded His life an atonement for sin,\nAnd opened the life gate that all may go in."
  }
]