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Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith, b. 1926 Meter: 5.5.5.4 Appears in 4 hymnals Matching Instances: 4 First Line: Chill of the nightfall Used With Tune: PRIOR LAKE Text Sources: Chill of the Nightfall

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PRIOR LAKE

Meter: 5.5.5.4 D Appears in 3 hymnals Matching Instances: 2 Composer and/or Arranger: David Haas, b. 1957 Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 33571 33671 33671 Used With Text: Song of the Stable

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Meter: 5.5.5.4 D Appears in 1 hymnal Matching Instances: 1 Composer and/or Arranger: K. Lee Scott Tune Key: D Major Used With Text: Chill of the Nightfall

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Song of the Stable

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith, b. 1926 Hymnal: Gather (3rd ed.) #452 (2011) Meter: 5.5.5.4 D First Line: Chill of the nightfall Lyrics: 1 Chill of the nightfall, Lamps in the windows, Letting their light fall Clear on the snow; Bitter December Bids us remember Christ in the stable Long, long ago. 2 Silence of idnight, Voices of angels, Singing to bid right Yield to the dawn; Darkness is ended, Sinners befriended, Where in the stable Jesus is born. 3 Splendor of starlight High on the hillside, Faint is the far light Burning below; Kneeling before him Shepherds adore him, Christ in the stable Long, long ago. 4 Glory of daybreak! Sorrows and shadows, Suddenly they break Forth into morn; Sing out and tell now All shall be well now, For in the stable Jesus is born! Topics: Christmas Season; Incarnation; Jesus Christ Scripture: Luke 2:6-19 Languages: English Tune Title: PRIOR LAKE

Song of the Stable

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith, b. 1926 Hymnal: Gather Comprehensive, Second Edition #370 (2004) Meter: 5.5.5.4 First Line: Chill of the nightfall Languages: English Tune Title: PRIOR LAKE

Song of the Stable

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith, b. 1926 Hymnal: Gather Comprehensive #364 (1994) Meter: 5.5.5.4 First Line: Chill of the nightfull Lyrics: 1 Chill of the nightfall, Lamps in the windows, Letting their light fall Clear on the snow; Bitter December Bids us remember Christ in the stable Long, long ago. 2 Silence of midnight, Voices of angels, Singing to bid night Yield to the dawn; Darkness is ended, Sinners befriended, Where in the stable Jesus is born. 3 Splendor of starlight High on the hillside, Faint is the far light Burning below; Kneeling before him Shepherds adore him, Christ in the stable Long, long ago. 4 Glory of daybreak! Sorrows and shadows, Suddenly they break Forth into morn; Sing out and tell now All shall be well now; For in the stable Jesus is born! Scripture: Luke 2:6-19 Languages: English Tune Title: PRIOR LAKE

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Timothy Dudley-Smith

b. 1926 Author of "Chill of the Nightfall" in Rejoice in God Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) Educated at Pembroke College and Ridley Hall, Cambridge, Dudley-Smith has served the Church of England since his ordination in 1950. He has occupied a number of church positions, including parish priest in the diocese of Southwark (1953-1962), archdeacon of Norwich (1973-1981), and bishop of Thetford, Norfolk, from 1981 until his retirement in 1992. He also edited a Christian magazine, Crusade, which was founded after Billy Graham's 1955 London crusade. Dudley-Smith began writing comic verse while a student at Cambridge; he did not begin to write hymns until the 1960s. Many of his several hundred hymn texts have been collected in Lift Every Heart: Collected Hymns 1961-1983 (1984), Songs of Deliverance: Thirty-six New Hymns (1988), and A Voice of Singing (1993). The writer of Christian Literature and the Church (1963), Someone Who Beckons (1978), and Praying with the English Hymn Writers (1989), Dudley-Smith has also served on various editorial committees, including the committee that published Psalm Praise (1973). Bert Polman