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[O little town of Bethlehem!]
Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: James C. Knox Incipit: 33253 21117 14653 Used With Text: O little town of Bethlehem!
[O little town of Bethlehem!]
O little town of Bethlehem!
Appears in 891 hymnals Used With Tune: [O little town of Bethlehem!]
O little town of Bethlehem!
O mother dear, Jerusalem
Author: D. Dickson Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 630 hymnals Lyrics: 1 O Mother dear, Jerusalem,
When shall I come to Thee?
When shall my sorrows have an end?
Thy joys when shall I see?
2 O happy harbor of God's saints!
O sweet and pleasant soil!
In thee no sorrow can be found,
Nor grief, nor care, nor toil.
3 No murky cloud o'er shadows thee,
Nor gloom, nor darksome night;
But every soul shines as the sun;
For God Himself give light.
4 O sweet home, Jerusalem,
Thy joys when shall I see?
The King that sitteth on thy throne
In his felicity?
5 Thy gardens and thy goodly walks
Continually are green,
Where grow such sweet and pleasant flowers
As nowhere else are seen.
6 Right through thy streets, with silver sound,
The living waters flow,
And on the banks, on either side
The trees of life doth grow.
7 Those trees for evermore bear fruit,
And evermore do spring:
There evermore the angels sit
And evermore do sing.
8 Jerusalem, my happy home,
Would God I were in Thee!
Would God my woes were at an end,
Thy joys that I might see!
Amen. Topics: General; Processional; Church Triumphant Used With Tune: [O mother dear, Jerusalem]
O mother dear, Jerusalem
O little town of Bethlehem!
Author: Bp. Phillips Brooks Hymnal: The Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged, as adopted by the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the year of our Lord 1892 #58a (1894) Meter: Irregular Lyrics: 1 O little town of Bethlehem!
How still we see thee lie;
Above thy deep and dreamless sleep
The silent stars go by;
Yet in thy dark streets shineth,
The everlasting Light;
The hopes and fears of all the years
Are met in thee tonight.
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.
4 O holy Child of Bethlehem!
Descend to us, we pray;
Cast out our sin, and enter in,
Be born in us to-day.
We hear the Christmas angels
The great glad tidings tell;
Oh come to us, abide with us,
Our Lord Emmanuel!
Amen.
Languages: English Tune Title: [O little town of Bethlehem]
O little town of Bethlehem!
O little town of Bethlehem!
Hymnal: Twenty Hymns #13 (1919) Languages: English Tune Title: [O little town of Bethlehem!]
O little town of Bethlehem!
O mother dear, Jerusalem
Author: D. Dickson Hymnal: The Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged, as adopted by the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the year of our Lord 1892 #403c (1894) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Lyrics: 1 O Mother dear, Jerusalem,
When shall I come to Thee?
When shall my sorrows have an end?
Thy joys when shall I see?
2 O happy harbor of God's saints!
O sweet and pleasant soil!
In thee no sorrow can be found,
Nor grief, nor care, nor toil.
3 No murky cloud o'er shadows thee,
Nor gloom, nor darksome night;
But every soul shines as the sun;
For God Himself give light.
4 O sweet home, Jerusalem,
Thy joys when shall I see?
The King that sitteth on thy throne
In his felicity?
5 Thy gardens and thy goodly walks
Continually are green,
Where grow such sweet and pleasant flowers
As nowhere else are seen.
6 Right through thy streets, with silver sound,
The living waters flow,
And on the banks, on either side
The trees of life doth grow.
7 Those trees for evermore bear fruit,
And evermore do spring:
There evermore the angels sit
And evermore do sing.
8 Jerusalem, my happy home,
Would God I were in Thee!
Would God my woes were at an end,
Thy joys that I might see!
Amen. Topics: General; Processional; Church Triumphant Languages: English Tune Title: [O mother dear, Jerusalem]
O mother dear, Jerusalem
Phillips Brooks
1835 - 1893 Person Name: Bp. Phillips Brooks Author of "O little town of Bethlehem!" in The Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged, as adopted by the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the year of our Lord 1892 Brooks, Phillips, D.D., was born at Boston, Dec. 13, 1835, graduated at Harvard College 1855, and was ordained in 1859. Successively Rector of the Church of the Advent, Philadelphia, and Trinity Church, Boston, he became Bishop of Mass. in 1891, and died at Boston in Jan., 1893. His Carol, "O little town of Bethlehem," was written for his Sunday School in 1868, the author having spent Christmas, 1866, at Bethlehem. His hymn, "God hath sent His angels to the earth again," is dated 1877.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
Phillips Brooks
James Carter Knox
1849 - 1930 Person Name: James C. Knox, M. A. Composer of "[O little town of Bethlehem]" in The Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged, as adopted by the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the year of our Lord 1892
James Carter Knox
David Dickson
1583 - 1663 Person Name: D. Dickson Alterer of "O mother dear, Jerusalem" in The Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged, as adopted by the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the year of our Lord 1892 Dickson, David, the reputed author of "Jerusalem, my happy home," in the form of "O mother dear, Jerusalem," was a Scottish Presbyterian Minister born at Glasgow in 1583, and for some time Professor of Divinity at Glasgow (1610), and then (1650) in the University of Edinburgh. He was deprived of his office at the Restoration for refusing the Oath of Supremacy, and died in 1663. His Life was published by Robert Wodrow in 1726. His connection with the Jerusalem hymn is given under Jerusalem, my happy home, q.v.
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
David Dickson
