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Love Divine, All Loves Excelling

Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 1,863 hymnals Topics: Salvation New Birth, Regeneration Scripture: John 3:7 Used With Tune: BEECHER

Author: William C. Dix Meter: 8.7.8.7.6.8.6.7 with refrain Appears in 203 hymnals Topics: Jesus Christ Birth and Infancy First Line: What child is this, who laid to rest Scripture: Matthew 2:11 Used With Tune: GREENSLEEVES

While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks

Author: Nahum Tate, 1652-1715 Appears in 1,099 hymnals Topics: Birth First Line: While shepherd watched their flocks by night Used With Tune: CHRISTMAS

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[Good Christian men, rejoice]

Appears in 200 hymnals Topics: Jesus Christ Birth Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 11134 56551 13456 Used With Text: Good Christian Men, Rejoice

GREENSLEEVES

Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Appears in 167 hymnals Topics: Christ's Gracious Life Birth and Baptism; Christ's Gracious Life Birth and Baptism Tune Key: e minor Incipit: 13456 54271 23117 Used With Text: What Child Is This

ADESTE FIDELES

Meter: Irregular Appears in 1,337 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John Francis Wade Topics: Jesus Christ Birth Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 11512 55323 43211 Used With Text: O Come, All Ye Faithful

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A Child is Born, the Birth Proclaim

Author: James Montgomery Hymnal: Sacred Poems and Hymns #33 (1854) Meter: 8.8.8.8 D Topics: Christ Birth of Lyrics: A child is born,--the birth proclaim, A son is given,--declare his name; Messiah, from the Fall foretold, The Deity in human mould; --That mould from which, God's image lost In Eden at so dire a cost, The new creation shall restore, And guilt efface its lines no more. Hail! to His rising from afar, He is the bright and morning star; His healing beams, ye nations, bless, He is the Sun of Righteousness To save His people from their sins, Jesus His suffering life begins; Ere long as Christ our sacrifice, The Holy and the Just One dies. Again His glorious name record, As David's Son and David's Lord; He mounts the mediatorial throne, To claim earth's kingdoms for his own: Him every eye again shall see Descend in power and majesty, His ransom'd in the clouds to meet, And put all foes beneath his feet. Languages: English

Mothering God, You Gave Me Birth

Author: Jean Wiebe Janzen; Julian (Juliana) of Norwich Hymnal: Voices United #320 (1996) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Topics: Birth Tune Title: HESPERUS (QUEBEC)

Birth of Christ

Hymnal: A Selection of Psalms and Hymns #CCLXXXVI (1790) Topics: Birth of Christ First Line: What good news the angels bring Lyrics: 1 What good news the angels bring What glad tidings of our King CHRIST our LORD is born to-day, CHRIST who takes our sins away. Him, who rules in heav'n and earth, Hath in Bethleh'm his birth: Him shall all the people see, And rejoice eternally. 2 Lift your hearts and voices high, With Hosannas fill the sky; "Glory be to GOD above," GOD is invinite in love: "Peace on earth, good will to men!" Now with us our GOD is seen: Angels join with us in praise! Help to sing redeeming grace. 3 Now the wall is broken down, Now the Gospel is made known; Now the door is open wide, CHRIST for Jew and Gentile dy'd. All who feel the wieght of sin, All who languish to be clean; All who for redemption groan, May be sav'd by faith alone. 4 JESUS is the lovely nane; This the angel doth proclaim; He shall all his people save, They in him remission ahve: When thy see themselves undone, They take refuge in the Son; They shall all be born again, And with him in glory reign. 5 Shout ye nations of the earth, Sing the triumphs of his birth; All the world by him is blest, Sound his praise from East to West: Jews and Gentiles jointly sing, CHRIST our common LORD and King, CHRIST our life, our joy, our song, To eternity prolong! Languages: English

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Conrad Kocher

1786 - 1872 Person Name: Conrad Kocher, 1786-1872 Topics: Jesus Our Savior His Birth; Jesus Our Savior Birth Composer of "DIX" in Great Hymns of the Faith Trained as a teacher, Conrad Kocher (b. Ditzingen, Wurttemberg, Germany, 1786; d. Stuttgart, Germany, 1872) moved to St. Petersburg, Russia, to work as a tutor at the age of seventeen. But his love for the music of Haydn and Mozart impelled him to a career in music. He moved back to Germany in 1811, settled in Stuttgart, and remained there for most of his life. The prestigious Cotta music firm published some of his early compositions and sent him to study music in Italy, where he came under the influence of Palestrina's music. In 1821 Kocher founded the School for Sacred Song in Stuttgart, which popularized four-part singing in the churches of that region. He was organist and choir director at the Stiftskirche in Stuttgart from 1827 to 1865. Kocher wrote a treatise on church music, Die Tonkunst in der Kirche (1823), collected a large number of chorales in Zions Harfe (1855), and composed an oratorio, two operas, and some sonatas. William H. Monk created the current form of DIX by revising and shortening Conrad Kocher's chorale melody for “Treuer Heiland, wir sind hier,” found in Kocher's Stimmen aus dem Reiche Gottes (1838). Bert Polman

Martin Madan

1726 - 1790 Person Name: Rev. Martin Madan Topics: Christ's birth Author of "Hark! the hearld angels sing" in The National Hymn Book of the American Churches Madan, Martin, son of Colonel Martin Madan, and brother of Dr. Spencer Madan, sometime Bishop of Peterborough, was born in 1726. He was to have qualified for the Bar, but through a sermon by J. Wesley on the words "Prepare to meet thy God," the whole current of his life was changed. After some difficulty he received Holy Orders, and subsequently founded and became chaplain of the Lock Hospital, Hyde Park Corner. He was popular as a preacher, and had no inconsiderable reputation as a musical composer. He ceased preaching on the publication of his work Thelyphthora, in which he advocated the practice of polygamy. He died in 1790. He published A Commentary on the Articles of the Church of England; A Treatise on the Christian Faith, &c, and:- A Collection of Psalms and Hymns Extracted from Various Authors, and published by the Reverend Mr. Madan. London, 1760. This Collection contained 170 hymns thrown together without order or system of any kind. In 1763 he added an Appendix of 24 hymns. This Collection, referred to as Madam’s Psalms & Hymns, had for many years a most powerful influence on the hymnody of the Church of England. Nearly the whole of its contents, together with its extensively altered texts, were reprinted in numerous hymnbooks for nearly one hundred years. At the present time many of the great hymns of the last century are in use as altered by him in 1760 and 1763. Although several hymns have been attributed to him, we have no evidence that he ever wrote one. His hymnological labours were employed in altering, piecing, and expanding the work of others. And in this he was most successful. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ============================

Thomas O. Chisholm

1866 - 1960 Topics: Jesus Birth Author of "Great Is Thy Faithfulness" in Praise for the Lord (Expanded Edition) Thomas O. Chisholm was born in Franklin, Kentucky in 1866. His boyhood was spent on a farm and in teaching district schools. He spent five years as editor of the local paper at Franklin. He was converted to Christianity at the age of 26 and soon after was business manager and office editor of the "Pentecostal Herald" of Louisville, Ky. In 1903 he entered the ministry of the M. E. Church South. His aim in writing was to incorporate as much as Scripture as possible and to avoid flippant or sentimental themes. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) ============================== Signed letter from Chisholm dated 9 August 1953 located in the DNAH Archives.

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