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Meter: Irregular with refrain Appears in 119 hymnals Topics: Biblical Narrative; Biblical Narrative Refrain First Line: O tidings of comfort and joy Lyrics: 1 God rest you merry, gentlemen, let nothing you dismay, for Jesus Christ our Savior was born upon this day, to save us all from Satan's power when we were gone astray. Refrain: O tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy; O tidings of comfort and joy. 2 In Bethlehem in Judah this blessed babe was born, and laid within a manger upon this blessed morn: for which his mother Mary did nothing take in scorn. [Refrain] 3 From God our heavenly Father a blessed angel came, and unto certain shepherds brought tidings of the same, how that in Bethlehem was born the Son of God by name. [Refrain] 4 The shepherds at those tidings rejoiced much in mind, and left their flocks a-feeding in tempest, storm, and wind, and went to Bethlehem straightway, the blessed babe to find. [Refrain] 5 Now to the Lord sing praises, all you within this place, and with true love and brotherhood each other now embrace; this holy tide of Christmas all others doth deface. [Refrain] Scripture: Luke 2:8-13 Used With Tune: GOD REST YOU MERRY Text Sources: Traditional English carol, 18th cent.

예 수 사 랑 하 심 은 (Jesus Loves Me)

Author: Anna B. Warner; David Rutherford McGuire Meter: 7.7.7.7 with refrain Appears in 613 hymnals Topics: Biblical Narrative First Line: 예 수 사 랑 하 심 은 (Jesus loves me! This I know) Refrain First Line: 날 사 랑 하 심 (Yes, Jesus loves me!) Scripture: John 15:9 Used With Tune: JESUS LOVESME Text Sources: Korean trans. The United Methodist Korean Hymnal Committee

Tell Me the Stories of Jesus

Author: William H. Parker Meter: 8.4.8.4.5.4.5.4 Appears in 153 hymnals Topics: Biblical Narrative Lyrics: 1 Tell me the stories of Jesus I love to hear; things I would ask him to tell me if he were here; scenes by the wayside, tales of the sea, stories of Jesus, tell them to me. 2 First let me hear how the children stood round his knee; and I shall fancy his blessing resting on me; words full of kindness, deeds full of grace, all in the love-light of Jesus' face. 3 Tell me, in accents of wonder, how rolled the sea, tossing the boat in a tempest on Galilee; and how the Master, ready and kind, chided the billows, and hushed the wind. 4 Into the city I'd follow the children's band, waving a branch of the palm-tree high in my hand; one of his heralds, yes, I would sing loudest hosannas! Jesus is King! 5 Show me that scene in the garden of bitter pain; and of the cross where my Saviour for me was slain. Sad ones or bright ones, so that they be stories of Jesus, tell them to me. Used With Tune: STORIES OF JESUS

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STORIES OF JESUS

Meter: 8.4.8.4.5.4.5.4 Appears in 83 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Frederick A. Challinor Topics: Biblical Narrative Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 53457 65345 23534 Used With Text: Tell Me the Stories of Jesus

BETHANY

Meter: 6.4.6.4.6.6.6.4 Appears in 957 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Lowell Mason Topics: Biblical Narrative Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 32116 65132 32116 Used With Text: Nearer, My God, to Thee

THE FIRST NOEL

Meter: Irregular with refrain Appears in 239 hymnals Topics: Biblical Narrative Tune Sources: Traditional English carol; harm. from Christmas Carols New and Old, 1871 Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 32123 45671 76567 Used With Text: The First Noel

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In the Desert, on God's Mountain

Author: Susan Palo Cherwien Hymnal: Worship and Song #3029 (2011) Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Topics: Biblical Narrative; Biblical Narrative First Line: In the desert, on God's mountian Scripture: Exodus 3:1-6 Languages: English Tune Title: LAUDA ANIMA

Down by the Jordan

Author: Carolyn Winfrey Gillette Hymnal: Worship and Song #3045 (2011) Meter: 14.14.4.7.8 Topics: Biblical Narrative; Biblical Narrative First Line: Down by the Jordan, a prophet named John was baptizing Scripture: Matthew 3 Languages: English Tune Title: LOBE DEN HERREN

God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen

Hymnal: Worship and Song #3052 (2011) Meter: Irregular with refrain Topics: Biblical Narrative; Biblical Narrative Refrain First Line: O tidings of comfort and joy Lyrics: 1 God rest you merry, gentlemen, let nothing you dismay, for Jesus Christ our Savior was born upon this day, to save us all from Satan's power when we were gone astray. Refrain: O tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy; O tidings of comfort and joy. 2 In Bethlehem in Judah this blessed babe was born, and laid within a manger upon this blessed morn: for which his mother Mary did nothing take in scorn. [Refrain] 3 From God our heavenly Father a blessed angel came, and unto certain shepherds brought tidings of the same, how that in Bethlehem was born the Son of God by name. [Refrain] 4 The shepherds at those tidings rejoiced much in mind, and left their flocks a-feeding in tempest, storm, and wind, and went to Bethlehem straightway, the blessed babe to find. [Refrain] 5 Now to the Lord sing praises, all you within this place, and with true love and brotherhood each other now embrace; this holy tide of Christmas all others doth deface. [Refrain] Scripture: Luke 2:8-13 Languages: English Tune Title: GOD REST YOU MERRY

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George Frideric Handel

1685 - 1759 Person Name: G. F. Handel Topics: Biblical Narrative Arranged from of "CHRISTMAS" in The United Methodist Hymnal George Frideric Handel (b. Halle, Germany, 1685; d. London, England, 1759) became a musician and composer despite objections from his father, who wanted him to become a lawyer. Handel studied music with Zachau, organist at the Halle Cathedral, and became an accomplished violinist and keyboard performer. He traveled and studied in Italy for some time and then settled permanently in England in 1713. Although he wrote a large number of instrumental works, he is known mainly for his Italian operas, oratorios (including Messiah, 1741), various anthems for church and royal festivities, and organ concertos, which he interpolated into his oratorio performances. He composed only three hymn tunes, one of which (GOPSAL) still appears in some modern hymnals. A number of hymnal editors, including Lowell Mason, took themes from some of Handel's oratorios and turned them into hymn tunes; ANTIOCH is one example, long associated with “Joy to the World.” Bert Polman

Nahum Tate

1652 - 1715 Topics: Biblical Narrative Author of "While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks" in Voices United 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 See also in: Hymn Writers of the Church