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What Child Is This

Author: William C. Dix Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Appears in 203 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 2:2-11 First Line: What child is this, who laid to rest Lyrics: 1 What child is this, who, laid to rest, on Mary's lap is sleeping? Whom angels greet with anthems sweet, while shepherds watch are keeping? This, this is Christ the King, whom shepherds guard and angels sing: haste, haste to bring him laud, the babe, the son of Mary. 2 Why lies he in such mean estate, where ox and ass are feeding? Good Christian, fear; for sinners here the silent Word is pleading. Nails, spear, shall pierce him through; the cross be borne for me, for you: hail, hail the Word made flesh, the babe, the son of Mary. 3 So bring him incense, gold, and myrrh; come, peasant, king, to own him; the King of kings salvation brings, let loving hearts enthrone him. Raise, raise the song on high, the virgin sings her lullaby: joy, joy for Christ is born, the babe, the son of Mary. Topics: Adoration; The Virgin Mary Used With Tune: GREENSLEEVES Text Sources: Traditional English carol

We Three Kings

Author: John H. Hopkins, Jr. Meter: 8.8.4.4.6 with refrain Appears in 311 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 2:1-12 First Line: We three kings of Orient are Refrain First Line: O star of wonder, star of light Lyrics: 1 We three kings of Orient are; bearing gifts we traverse afar, field and fountain, moor and mountain, following yonder star. Refrain: O star of wonder, star of light, star with royal beauty bright, westward leading, still proceeding, guide us to thy perfect light. 2 Born a King on Bethlehem's plain, gold I bring to crown him again, King forever, ceasing never, over us all to reign. [Refrain] 3 Frankincense to offer have I; incense owns a Deity nigh; prayer and praising, voices raising, worshiping God on high. [Refrain] 4 Myrrh is mine; its bitter perfume breathes a life of gathering gloom; sorrowing, sighing, bleeding, dying, sealed in the stone-cold tomb. [Refrain] 5 Glorious now behold him arise; King and God and sacrifice: Alleluia, Alleluia, sounds through the earth and skies. [Refrain] Topics: Christ's Gracious Life Birth and Baptism; Christian Year Christmas; Christian Year Epiphany; Christ's Gracious Life Birth and Baptism; Christian Year Christmas; Christian Year Epiphany; Jesus Christ Used With Tune: KINGS OF ORIENT

What Star Is This, with Beams So Bright

Author: Charles Coffin; John Chandler Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 91 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 2:1-12 Lyrics: 1 What star is this, with beams so bright, More lovely than the noonday light? ’Tis sent to announce a newborn King, Glad tidings of our God to bring. 2 ’Tis now fulfilled what God decreed, “From Jacob shall a star proceed”; And lo! the Eastern sages stand To read in heaven the Lord’s command. 3 O Jesus, while the star of grace Impels us on to seek Your face, Let not our slothful hearts refuse The guidance of Your light to use. 4 To God the Father, God the Son, And Holy Spirit, Three in One, May every tongue and nation raise An endless song of thankful praise. Used With Tune: PUER NOBIS NASCITUR

Who would think that what was needed

Author: John L. Bell, b. 1949; Graham Maule, b. 1958 Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 11 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 2:1-12 Topics: The Incarnate Christ: Christmas Used With Tune: SCARLET RIBBONS

Wise Men, They Came to Look for Wisdom

Author: Christopher Idle, 1938- Meter: 9.8.9.8.8.8 Appears in 8 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 2:1-12 Lyrics: 1 Wise men, they came to look for wisdom, finding one wiser than they knew; rich men, they met with one yet richer-- King of the kings, they knelt to you: Jesus, our wisdom from above, wealth and redemption, life and love. 2 Pilgrims they were, from unknown countries, searching for one who knows the world; lost are their names, and strange their journeys, famed is their zeal to find the child: Jesus, in you the lost are claimed, aliens are found and known and named. 3 Magi, they stooped to see your splendor, led by a star to light supreme; promised Messiah, Lord eternal, glory and peace are in your name: Joy of each day, our song by night, shine on our path your holy light. 4 Guests of their God, they opened treasures, incense and gold and solemn myrrh; welcoming one too young to question how came these gifts, and what they were: Gift beyond price of gold or gem, make among us your Bethlehem. Used With Tune: NEUMARK

When, marshaled on the nightly plain

Appears in 482 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 2:9 Topics: Jesus Christ Advent at Birth; Advent of Christ At Birth; Star of Bethlehem

Worship the Lord in the Beauty of Holiness

Author: John Samuel Bewley Monsell (1811-1875) Meter: 12.10.12.10 Appears in 145 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 2:1-12 Lyrics: 1 Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness; bow down before him, his glory proclaim; gold of obedience and incense of lowliness bring, and adore him: the Lord is his name. 2 Low at his feet lay thy burden of carefulness, high on his heart he will bear it for thee, comfort thy sorrows, and answer thy prayerfulness, guiding thy steps as may best for thee be. 3 Fear not to enter his courts in the slenderness of the poor wealth thou canst reckon as thine; truth in its beauty, and love in its tenderness, these are the offerings to lay on his shrine. 4 These, though we bring them in trembling and fearfulness, he will accept for the name that is dear; mornings of joy give for evenings of tearfulness, trust for our trembling, and hope for our fear. 5 Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness; bow down before him, his glory proclaim; gold of obedience and incense of lowliness bring, and adore him; the Lord is his name! Topics: Epiphany (feast); Gathering of the Community; Offertory; Praise of God Used With Tune: ÜTTINGEN (WAS LEBET)

Where Is This Stupendous Stranger

Author: Christopher Smart Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 12 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 2:1-12 First Line: Where is this stupendous Stranger? Lyrics: 1 Where is this stupendous Stranger? Prophets, shepherds, kings, advise! Lead me to my Master's manger, show me where my Savior lies. 2 O most Mighty, O most Holy, far beyond the seraph’s thought, are you then so mean and lowly as unheeded prophets thought? 3 Oh, the magnitude of meekness! worth from worth immortal sprung! Oh, the strength of infant weakness, if eternal is so young! 4 God all bounteous, all creative, whom our sins could not dissuade, you have come to be a native of the very world you made. Topics: Incarnation Used With Tune: McRAE Text Sources: Hymns and Spiritual Songs . . ., 1765, alt.

We Would See Jesus; Lo! His Star is Shining

Author: J. Edgar Park Meter: 11.10.11.10 Appears in 69 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 2:10 Lyrics: 1 We would see Jesus; lo! his star is shining, above the stable while the angels sing; in manger humble on the hay reclining, haste, let us lay our gifts before the King. 2 We would see Jesus; Mary's son most holy, Light of the village life from day to day; shines revealed through ev'ry task most lowly, the Christ of God, the Life, the Truth, the Way. 3 We would see Jesus; on the mountain teaching, with all the list'ning people gathered round; while birds and flow'rs and sky above are preaching the blessedness which simple trust has found. 4 We would see Jesus; in his work of healing, that joyful evening when the sun was set; divine and human, in his deep revealing of God made flesh, in loving service meet. 5 We would see Jesus; in the early morning, still, as of old he calleth, "Follow me"; let us arise, all meaner service scorning; Lord, we are thine; we give ourselves to thee. Topics: Biblical Characters Mary; Call and Response; Jesus Christ Call and Response; Jesus Christ Epiphany and Youth; Jesus Christ Life and Ministry Used With Tune: FOREST HILL