{"id":5284,"date":"2017-01-04T12:36:19","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T18:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/?p=5284"},"modified":"2017-01-04T12:45:05","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T18:45:05","slug":"mount-calvary-epiphany-2017-closing-hymn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/mount-calvary-epiphany-2017-closing-hymn-5284.htm","title":{"rendered":"Mount Calvary Epiphany 2017 Closing Hymn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/William-Chatterton-Dix.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[5284]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5223\" src=\"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/William-Chatterton-Dix.jpg\" alt=\"william-chatterton-dix\" width=\"139\" height=\"203\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The young Anglican layman William Chatterton Dix (1837\u20131898), an insurance salesman, was ill on Epiphany 1859 and could not attend services. On his sickbed he wrote #52 <em>As with gladness men of old<\/em>. He calls us to imitate the Wise Men, seeking Jesus and offering Him our treasures.\u00a0 Dix uses a concept unfamiliar to Western Christians, but prominent in the Eastern Church: uncreated light. In this life we have a created star to guide us, but it guides us to \u201cthe country bright\u201d where we see the uncreated light of God Himself. \u201cThe city has no need of sun or moon to shine upon it, for the glory of God is its light, and its lamp is the Lamb. By its light shall the nations walk; and the kings of the earth shall bring their glory into it.\u201d (<em>Rev<\/em> 21:23-24).<\/p>\n<p>For those interested in the Eastern doctrine of teh Uncreated Light, see Solrunn Nes&#8217;s <em>Uncreated Ligh<\/em>t.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/Solrunn-Nes.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[5284]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5285\" src=\"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/Solrunn-Nes.jpg\" alt=\"solrunn-nes\" width=\"325\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/Solrunn-Nes.jpg 325w, https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/Solrunn-Nes-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-5284\" data-postid=\"5284\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-5284 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The young Anglican layman William Chatterton Dix (1837\u20131898), an insurance salesman, was ill on Epiphany 1859 and could not attend services. On his sickbed he wrote #52 As with gladness men of old. He calls us to imitate the Wise Men, seeking Jesus and offering Him our treasures.\u00a0 Dix uses a concept unfamiliar to Western [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1229,1318],"tags":[1409,1408],"class_list":["post-5284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hymns","category-mount-calvary-church","tag-as-with-gladness-men-of-old","tag-uncreated-light","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5287,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5284\/revisions\/5287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}