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It came upon the midnight clear
Author: Edmund Hamilton Sears Appears in 867 hymnals Matching Instances: 45 Lyrics: 1 It came upon the midnight clear,
That glorious song of old,
From angels bending near the earth
To touch their harps of gold:
"Peace on the earth, goodwill to men,
From heaven's all-gracious King:"
The world in solemn stillness lay,
To hear the angels sing.
2 Still through the cloven skies they come
With peaceful wings unfurled,
And still their heavenly music floats
O'er all the weary world;
Above its sad and lowly plains
They bend on hovering wing,
And ever o'er its Babel-sounds
The blessed angels sing.
3 And ye, beneath life's crushing load,
Whose forms are bending low,
Who toil along a dreary way
With painful steps and slow.--
Look now! for glad and golden hours
Come swiftly on the wing.
O rest beside the weary road,
And hear the angels sing.
4 For lo, the days are hastening on,
By prophets seen of old,
When with the ever-circling years
Shall come the time foretold,
When the new heaven and earth shall own
The Prince of Peace their King,
And the whole world send back the song
Which now the angels sing.
Amen. Topics: The Church Year Christmas Used With Tune: NOEL
It came upon the midnight clear
While shepherds watched their flocks by night
Author: Nahum Tate Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 1,094 hymnals Matching Instances: 15 Lyrics: 1 While shepherds watched their flocks by night,
All seated on the ground;
The angel of the Lord came down,
And glory shone around.
"Fear not," said he,--for mighty dread
Had seized their troubled mind,--
"Glad tidings of great joy I bring,
To you and all mankind.
2 "To you, in David's town this day,
Is born of David's line
The Saviour, who is Christ, the Lord,
And this shall be the sign:--
The heavenly babe you there shall find
To human view displayed,
All simply wrapped in swathing bands,
And in a manger laid."
5 Thus spoke the seraph--and forthwith
Appeared a shining throng
Of angels, praising God, who thus
Addressed their joyful song:--
"All glory be to God on high,
And to the earth be peace;
Good-will will henceforth from heaven to men
Begin, and never cease!"
Amen. Topics: Angels; Christ First Advent; Christ Humiliation of; Christ Savior; Christ Son of David; Christmas Used With Tune: NOEL
While shepherds watched their flocks by night
A Thousand Years Have Come and Gone
Author: Thomas Lynch Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 32 hymnals Matching Instances: 13 Lyrics: 1. A thousand years have come and gone,
and near a thousand more,
Since happier light from Heaven shone
than ever shone before:
And in the hearts of old and young
a joy most joyful stirred.
That sent such news from tongue to tongue
as ears had never heard.
2. Then angels on their starry way
felt bliss unfelt before,
For news that men should be as they
to darkened earth they bore;
So toiling men and spirits bright
a first communion had,
And in meek mercy’s rising light
were each exceeding glad.
3. And we are glad, and we will sing,
as in the days of yore;
Come all, and hearts made ready bring,
to welcome back once more
The day when first on wintry earth
a summer change began,
And, dawning in a lowly birth
uprose the Light of man.
4. For trouble such as men must bear
from childhood to fourscore,
He shared with us, that we might share
His joy forevermore;
And twice a thousand years of grief
of conflict, and of sin,
May tell how large the harvest sheaf
His patient love shall win. Used With Tune: NOEL Text Sources: The Rivulet; a Contribution to Sacred Song, 1868
A Thousand Years Have Come and Gone
A Thousand Years Have Come and Gone
Author: Thomas Lynch Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #6699 Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Lyrics: 1. A thousand years have come and gone,
and near a thousand more,
Since happier light from Heaven shone
than ever shone before:
And in the hearts of old and young
a joy most joyful stirred.
That sent such news from tongue to tongue
as ears had never heard.
2. Then angels on their starry way
felt bliss unfelt before,
For news that men should be as they
to darkened earth they bore;
So toiling men and spirits bright
a first communion had,
And in meek mercy’s rising light
were each exceeding glad.
3. And we are glad, and we will sing,
as in the days of yore;
Come all, and hearts made ready bring,
to welcome back once more
The day when first on wintry earth
a summer change began,
And, dawning in a lowly birth
uprose the Light of man.
4. For trouble such as men must bear
from childhood to fourscore,
He shared with us, that we might share
His joy forevermore;
And twice a thousand years of grief
of conflict, and of sin,
May tell how large the harvest sheaf
His patient love shall win. Languages: English Tune Title: NOEL
A Thousand Years Have Come and Gone
I Will Extol Thee, O My God
Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #3157 Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Lyrics: 1. I will extol Thee, O my God,
and praise Thee, O my king;
Yea, every day and evermore
Thy praises will I sing.
Great is the Lord, our mighty God,
and greatly to be praised;
His greatness is unsearchable,
above all glory raised.
2. Each generation to the next
shall testimony bear,
And to Thy praise, from age to age,
Thy wondrous acts declare;
Upon Thy glorious majesty
and honor I will dwell,
And all Thy grand and glorious works
and all Thy greatness tell.
3. Thy mighty acts and terrible
shall men with awe confess;
Of Thy great goodness they shall sing,
and perfect righteousness.
Most gracious and compassionate
is God who reigns above;
His wrath is ever slow to rise,
unbounded is His love. Scripture: Psalm 145 Languages: English Tune Title: NOEL
I Will Extol Thee, O My God
If Human Kindness Meets Return
Author: Gerard T. Noel Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #2828 Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Lyrics: 1. If human kindness meets return,
And owns the grateful tie;
If tender thoughts within us burn
To feel a friend is nigh;
O shall not warmer accents tell
The gratitude we owe
To Him who died, our fears to quell,
Our more than orphan’s woe!
2. While yet His anguished soul surveyed
Those pangs he would not flee,
What love His latest words displayed,
Meet and remember Me!
Remember Thee! Thy death, Thy shame
Our sinful hearts to share!
O memory, leave no other name
But His recorded there. Languages: English Tune Title: NOEL
If Human Kindness Meets Return
Arthur Sullivan
1842 - 1900 Person Name: Arthur Seymour Sullivan Arranger of "NOEL" in The Cyber Hymnal Arthur Seymour Sullivan (b Lambeth, London. England. 1842; d. Westminster, London, 1900) was born of an Italian mother and an Irish father who was an army bandmaster and a professor of music. Sullivan entered the Chapel Royal as a chorister in 1854. He was elected as the first Mendelssohn scholar in 1856, when he began his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He also studied at the Leipzig Conservatory (1858-1861) and in 1866 was appointed professor of composition at the Royal Academy of Music. Early in his career Sullivan composed oratorios and music for some Shakespeare plays. However, he is best known for writing the music for lyrics by William S. Gilbert, which produced popular operettas such as H.M.S. Pinafore (1878), The Pirates of Penzance (1879), The Mikado (1884), and Yeomen of the Guard (1888). These operettas satirized the court and everyday life in Victorian times. Although he composed some anthems, in the area of church music Sullivan is best remembered for his hymn tunes, written between 1867 and 1874 and published in The Hymnary (1872) and Church Hymns (1874), both of which he edited. He contributed hymns to A Hymnal Chiefly from The Book of Praise (1867) and to the Presbyterian collection Psalms and Hymns for Divine Worship (1867). A complete collection of his hymns and arrangements was published posthumously as Hymn Tunes by Arthur Sullivan (1902). Sullivan steadfastly refused to grant permission to those who wished to make hymn tunes from the popular melodies in his operettas.
Bert Polman
Arthur Sullivan
Edmund H. Sears
1810 - 1876 Author of "It Came upon the Midnight Clear" in Christian Science Hymnal Edmund Hamilton Sears was born in Berkshire [County], Massachusetts, in 1810; graduated at Union College, Schenectady, in 1834, and at the Theological School of Harvard University, in 1837. He became pastor of the Unitarian Society in Wayland, Mass., in 1838; removed to Lancaster in 1840; but on account of ill health was obliged to retire from the active duties of the ministry in 1847; since then, residing in Wayland, he devoted himself to literature. He has published several works.
--Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A., 1872
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Sears, Edmund Hamilton, D.D., son of Joseph Sears, was born at Sandisfield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, April 6, 1810, and educated at Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., where he graduated in 1834; and at the Theological School at Cambridge. In 1838 he became pastor of the First Church (Unitarian) at Wayland, Massachusetts; then at Lancaster in the same State, in 1840; again at Wayland, in 1847; and finally at Weston, Massachusetts, in 1865. He died at Weston, Jan. 14, 1876. He published:—
(1) Regeneration, 1854; (2) Pictures of the Olden Time, 1857; (3) Athanasia, or Foregleams of Immortality, 1858, enlarged ed., 1872; (4) The Fourth Gospel the Heart of Christ; (5) Sermons and Songs of the Christian Life, 1875, in which his hymns are collected. Also co-editor of the Monthly Religious Magazine.
Of his hymns the following are in common use:—
1. Calm on the listening ear of night. Christmas. This hymn was first published in its original form, in the Boston Observer, 1834; afterwards, in the Christian Register, in 1835; subsequently it was emended by the author, and, as thus emended, was reprinted entire in the Monthly Magazine, vol. xxxv. Its use is extensive.
2. It came upon the midnight clear. Christmas.
"Rev. Dr. Morison writes to us, Sears's second Christmas hymn was sent to me as editor of the Christian Register, I think, in December, 1849. I was very much delighted with it, and before it came out in the Register, read it at a Christmas celebration of Dr. Lunt's Sunday School in Quincy. I always feel that, however poor my Christmas sermon may be, the reading and singing of this hymn are enough to make up for all deficiences.'"
3. Ho, ye that rest beneath the rock. Charitable Meetings on behalf of Children. Appeared in Longfellow and Johnson's Hymns of the Spirit, Boston, 1864, in 2 stanzas of 8 lines.
Dr. Sears's two Christmas hymns rank with the best on that holy season in the English language. Although a member of the Unitarian body, his views were rather Swedenborgian than Unitarian. He held always to the absolute Divinity of Christ. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.]
--Excerpts from John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Edmund H. Sears
Nahum Tate
1652 - 1715 Author of "While Shepherds Watched" in The New Christian Hymnal Nahum Tate was born in Dublin and graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, B.A. 1672. He lacked great talent but wrote much for the stage, adapting other men's work, really successful only in a version of King Lear. Although he collaborated with Dryden on several occasions, he was never fully in step with the intellectual life of his times, and spent most of his life in a futile pursuit of popular favor. Nonetheless, he was appointed poet laureate in 1692 and royal historiographer in 1702. He is now known only for the New Version of the Psalms of David, 1696, which he produced in collaboration with Nicholas Brady. Poverty stricken throughout much of his life, he died in the Mint at Southwark, where he had taken refuge from his creditors, on August 12, 1715.
--The Hymnal 1940 Companion
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Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary
Publication Date: 2007 Publisher: Grand Rapids, MI: Christian Classics Ethereal Library
Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary
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