The Psalter and Scripture Selections for Responsive Reading

The hopes and fears of all the years Are met in Thee to night. A-men.

2 For Christ is born of Mary,

And gathered all above,

While mortals sleep the angels keep Their watch of wondering love.

O morning stars together

Proclaim the holy birth!

And praises sing to God the King, And peace to men on earth.

3 How silently, how silently,
The wondrous gift is given;
So God imparts to human hearts
The blessings of His heaven.
No ear may hear His coming,
But in this world of sin,
Where meek souls will receive Him still,
The dear Christ enters in.

Above thy deep and dream-less sleep The silent stars go by;

Yet in thy dark streets shin eth The ev - er

lasting Light;

The hopes and fears of all the years Are met in thee to-night. A-men.

CAROL C. M. D.

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R. S. WILLIS, 1849

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While Shepherds watched their flocks by night, All seat-ed

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on the ground,

The an gel

of the Lord came down, And glo - ry

shone a round.

"Fear not," said he, for might - y dread Had seized their troubled mind;

"Glad tid -ings of great joy I bring

To you, and all man - kind. A-men.

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 meanly wrapped in swathing bands, And in a manger laid."

3 Thus spake the seraph, and forthwith
Appeared a shining throng

Of angels, praising God, and thus
Addressed their joyful song:
"All glory be to God on high,

And to the earth be peace;
Good-will henceforth from heaven to men
Begin, and never cease."

NAHUM TATE, 1703

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Sing, O sing,this bless-ed morn, Jesus Christ to day is born.

2 God of God, and Light of Light,
Comes with mercies infinite,
Joining in a wondrous plan
Heaven to earth, and God to man.
Sing, O sing, this blessèd morn,
Jesus Christ to-day is born.

3 God with us, Emmanuel,
Deigns for ever now to dwell;
And on Adam's fallen race
Sheds the fulness of His grace.
Sing, O sing, this blessèd morn,
Jesus Christ to-day is born.

4 God comes down that man may rise, Lifted by Him to the skies;

He is Son of Man that we
By Him sons of God may be.

Sing, O sing, this blessed morn,
Jesus Christ to-day is born.

5 O renew us, Lord, we pray,
With Thy Spirit day by day,
That we ever one may be
With the Father and with Thee.
Sing, O sing, this blessèd morn,
Jesus Christ to-day is born.

Bishop CHRISTopher Wordsworth, 1862

MENDELSSOHN, 1840

Hark! the her-ald an-gels sing Glory to the new-born King;Peace on earth,and

mer-cy mild, God and sin- ners rec-on- ciled!

Joy-ful all ye na-tions, rise,

Join the tri-umph of the skies; With th' an-gel-ic host pro-claim Christ is born in

Refrain

Beth-le-hem.Hark! the her-ald an-gels sing Glo-ry to the new-born King.A-men.

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2 Christ, by highest heaven adored;
Christ, the everlasting Lord;
Come, Desire of Nations, come,
Fix in us Thy humble home.
Veiled in flesh the Godhead see;
Hail the Incarnate Deity,

Pleased as Man with man to dwell;
Jesus, our Emmanuel!

3 Mild He lays His glory by,

Born that man no more may die,
Born to raise the sons of earth,
Born to give them second birth.
Risen with healing in His wings,
Light and life to all He brings,
Hail, the Sun of Righteousness!
Hail, the heaven-born Prince of Peace!
Rev. CHARLES WESLEY, 1739

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