{"id":85702,"date":"2019-10-19T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=85702"},"modified":"2019-10-19T11:07:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T15:07:00","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-henry-martyn-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=85702","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 dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Henry Martyn (1781\u20131812) lived a short, lonely but fruitful life as a Christian missionary &amp; scholar. He become chaplain to the East India Company in Bengal, ending up translating the New Testament &amp; the Book of Common Prayer into Hindustani &amp; Farsi \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DGSl5mx3o6\">https:\/\/t.co\/DGSl5mx3o6<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/stOts3KkyC\">pic.twitter.com\/stOts3KkyC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Peterborough Cathedral (@pborocathedral) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pborocathedral\/status\/1185439198419009536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 19, 2019<\/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=85702\">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":[186,182,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-missions","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85702","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=85702"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85705,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85702\/revisions\/85705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}