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Let us now go to Bethlehem

Appears in 2 hymnals Hymnal Title: S. Mary's hymnal

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Anonymous Hymnal Title: The Cyber Hymnal Tune Sources: Old English melody Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 51512 33271 65715 Used With Text: Let Us Now Go to Bethlehem

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Let us now go to Bethlehem

Hymnal: S. Mary's hymnal #168 (1891) Hymnal Title: S. Mary's hymnal

Let Us Now Go to Bethlehem

Author: Richard Robert Chope Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #3670 Hymnal Title: The Cyber Hymnal Lyrics: 1. Let us now go to Bethlehem, To see the wondrous thing— Mary and Joseph and with them The babe, our infant king! For we shall find on earth The Heav’n of Heav’ns in Him, The holy, holy, holy Son, Beneath the cherubim. 2. Let us now go to Bethlehem, To see the wondrous thing— Mary and Joseph and with them The babe, our infant king— His Father’s glory come To lift our hearts above. First loved by Him and angel hosts We carol back His love. 3. Let us then go to Bethlehem— Faith’s star shall guide the way To Jesus cradled in His church, This bright appearing day! There, light’s true Light to Thee We sing with glad accord. To meet it is to celebrate Thy birthday, Jesus, Lord! Languages: English Tune Title: [Let us now go to Bethlehem]

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Richard R. Chope

1830 - 1928 Person Name: Richard Robert Chope Hymnal Title: The Cyber Hymnal Author of "Let Us Now Go to Bethlehem" in The Cyber Hymnal Chope, Richard Robert, M.A., born Sept. 21, 1830, educated at Exeter College, Oxford, B.A., 1855, and took Holy Orders as Curate of Stapleton, 1856. During his residence at Stapleton the necessities of the Choir led him to plan his Congregational Hymn and Tune Book, published in 1857. In 1858 he took the Curacy of Sherborne, Dorset; in the following year that of Upton Scudamore, where he undertook the training of the Chorus of the Warminster district for the first Choral Festival in Salisbury Cathedral; and in 1861 that of Brompton. The enlarged edition of The Congregational Hymn Book was published 1862, and The Canticles, Psalter, &c, of the Prayer Book, Noted and Pointed, during the same year. In 1865 he was preferred to the parish of St. Augustine's, Queen's Gate, South Kensington, and subsequently published Carols for Use in Church during Christmas and Epiphany, 1875; Carols for Easier and Other Tides, 1887; and other works. Mr. Chope has been one of the leaders in the revival and reform of Church Music as adapted to the Public Services. He was one of the originators of The Choir and Musical Record, and was for some time the proprietor and assistant editor of the Literary Churchman. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Anonymous

Hymnal Title: The Cyber Hymnal Composer of "[Let us now go to Bethlehem]" in The Cyber Hymnal In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.