First word of Sarah Adams' hymn

• Warmer, so to speak
• Not so remote
• More approximate
• More likely to encounter
• Like Mars vis-Г -vis Jupiter
• Start of Sarah Adams's well-known hymn
• Not as far
• Start of a hymn
• More adjacent

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Less distant from. (en-comparative of: near ). prep. Closer