{"id":116036,"date":"2022-10-19T07:02:16","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T11:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=116036"},"modified":"2022-10-19T07:19:24","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T11:19:24","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-henry-martyn-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=116036","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Feast Day of Henry Martyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>O God of the nations, who didst give to thy faithful servant Henry Martyn a brilliant mind, a loving heart, and a gift for languages, that he might translate the Scriptures and other holy writings for the peoples of India and Persia: Inspire in us, we beseech thee, a love like his, eager to commit both life and talents to thee who gavest them; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today the Church of England celebrates Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India and Persia, 1812<\/p>\n<p>Image: Nave window in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TruroCathedral?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TruroCathedral<\/a>. Photo: Michael Swift, via <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pdNVLNdw3E\">https:\/\/t.co\/pdNVLNdw3E<\/a>. Henry Martyn was born in Truro and educated at Truro Grammar School. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yhRlGbXhCX\">pic.twitter.com\/yhRlGbXhCX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Anglican Church in St Petersburg (@anglicanspb) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anglicanspb\/status\/1582613540669571072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 19, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O God of the nations, who didst give to thy faithful servant Henry Martyn a brilliant mind, a loving heart, and a gift for languages, that he might translate the Scriptures and other holy writings for the peoples of India<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=116036\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,481,182,188,453],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-india","category-missions","category-spiritualityprayer","category-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116036"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116042,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116036\/revisions\/116042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}