{"id":236,"date":"2014-05-26T16:17:20","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T16:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wesleyhallplumstead.org.uk\/wp\/?p=236"},"modified":"2016-06-14T07:30:52","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T07:30:52","slug":"wesley-hall-100-years-a-poem-from-mel-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wesleyhallplumstead.org.uk\/wp\/?p=236","title":{"rendered":"Wesley Hall 100 Years &#8211; a poem from Mel Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">100 years have passed so soon<br \/>\n<\/span>We never thought we\u2019d see<br \/>\nA church so small and yet so grand<br \/>\nFor Christ through us to work, could He?!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">A great ado goes on here today<br \/>\nWhen candles are lit and children sing<br \/>\nLook gladly at what you witness and say<br \/>\nHe is here!\u00a0 With love so strong and undying.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Far, far beyond our dreams it seems<br \/>\nThe freedom to pray, worship and sing<br \/>\nBetween its well shaped pillars, walls and beams<br \/>\nFolk come from far and near, to hear Hosannas ring.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">100 years ago upon this south London spot<br \/>\nCharles and John Wesley had long since died<br \/>\nThe scented grass and horses braying<br \/>\nTo honour their name, these doors were open wide.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Our hopes and dreams still held high<br \/>\nAs we tread the roads that lead us here<br \/>\n100 years God stood and watched<br \/>\nO\u2019er this church we hold so dear<br \/>\nWesley Hall.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\" align=\"center\"><em>Mel Temple<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>100 years have passed so soon We never thought we\u2019d see A church so small and yet so grand For Christ through us to work, could He?! A great ado goes on here today When candles are lit and children sing Look gladly at what you witness and say He is here!\u00a0 With love so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wesleyhallplumstead.org.uk\/wp\/?p=236\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wesley Hall 100 Years &#8211; a poem from Mel Temple<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101014,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-centenary-blog","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7CN5E-3O","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyhallplumstead.org.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyhallplumstead.org.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyhallplumstead.org.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyhallplumstead.org.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/101014"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyhallplumstead.org.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyhallplumstead.org.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyhallplumstead.org.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions\/237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyhallplumstead.org.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyhallplumstead.org.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyhallplumstead.org.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}