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[The stars are shining bright and clear] (Bullinger)
Appears in 5 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: E. W. Bullinger Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 55346 53317 65433 Used With Text: The stars are shining bright and clear
[The stars are shining bright and clear] (Bullinger)
The stars are shining bright and clear
Appears in 6 hymnals Used With Tune: [The stars are shining bright and clear]
The stars are shining bright and clear
The Stars are Shining Bright and Clear
Hymnal: The Children's Hymn Book #419 (1881) Languages: English Tune Title: [The stars are shining bright and clear]
The Stars are Shining Bright and Clear
The stars are shining bright and clear
Hymnal: Voices of Praise #290 (1883) Lyrics: 1 The stars are shining bright and clear,
The hills are white with snow;
Our Christmas eve has come again,
Our hearts with joy o'erflow;
The Christmas carols, sweet and glad,
Are sounding on the air;
And Christmas wreaths, in glist'ning show,
Make bright the house of prayer.
2 Not here across the snow was heard
The first sweet Christmas song;
But where the crimson lilies bloom,
Judaea's hills among:
Those hills where David long before
His father's sheep had kept;
And where, o'er Rachel's lonely tomb,
The mourning Jacob wept.
3 And not by earthly choristers
Was that first carol sung;
Not through the temple's shining courts
Its faultless music rung;
No listening crowds had gathered there,
That wondrous chant to hear;
Save watchful shepherds on the hills,
No human soul was near.
4 'Twas sung by countless multitudes
Of Angels pure and bright,
And o'er the bare and silent hills
There shone a glorious light;
Such heavenly music ne'er was heard
Before by sons of men,
And never more shall song like that
Be heard on earth again.
We know the tidings which they brought
Of Christ our Saviour's birth,
Their song of "Glory be to God,
Good will and peace on earth:"
And so the Christmas carol, sung
By Angels long ago,
Is sweeter than all other songs
Which Christians sing below.
Amen. Topics: Christmas Languages: English Tune Title: [The stars are shining bright and clear]
The stars are shining bright and clear
The stars are shining bright and clear
Hymnal: Carols Old and Carols New #67 (1916) Topics: Christmas Languages: English Tune Title: [The stars are shining bright and clear]
The stars are shining bright and clear
Ethelbert W. Bullinger
1837 - 1913 Person Name: Rev. E. W. Bullinger Composer of "[The stars are shining bright and clear]" in Carols Old and Carols New Ethelbert William Bullinger DD United Kingdom 1837-1913. Born in Canterbury, he was an Anglican clergyman, Biblical scholar, and ultradispensationalist theologian and writer. Educated at King's College, London, he became a good organist, singer, and composer. He married Emma Dobson, 13 years his senior, and they had two sons. In 1861 he began as Associate Curate to the parish of St. Mary Magdelene, Bermondsey, and was ordained as priest in the Church of England in 1862. He served as parish curate in Tittleshall until 1866, then Notting Hill until 1869, them Leytonstone to 1870, and finally Walthamstow, until becoming Vicar of the new parish of St. Stephen's in 1874. He resigned his vicarage in 1888. In 1867 he was clerical secretary of the Trinitarian Bible Society, which he held (except for illnesses) until his death. The Society completed and published a Hebrew version of the New Testament, the Tanakh (introduction to the Hebrew Bible), formation of the Brittany evangelical Mission Society under Pasteur LeCoat and translation of the Bible into Breton, also producing the first ever Protestant Portuguese reference Bible. It also distributed Spanish Bibles in Spain after the 1868 Spanish Revolution. Bullinger, a practiced musician, collected and harmonized untranscribed hymns on his visits to Tremel, Brittany. He wrote many articles, edited a monthly journal “Things to come”. He wrote 4 Biblical works (16 works).
John Perry
Ethelbert W. Bullinger
