praise our Lord and Sa-vior Who in the man-ger lay.

so were told the ti-dings Which makes the world rejoice. Sing, sing for Christmas! an-gel hosts who her - ald The reign of peace for aye.

Welcome hap-py day! For Christ is born our Savior, To take our sins a

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WHILE SHEPHERDS WATCHED THEIR FLOCKS.

"Gabriel." C. M. D.

NAHUM TATE, (1652-1715) 1703.

1. While shepherds watched their flocks by night, All seat - ed on the ground, 2. "To you in David's town this day, Is born of Da-vid's line, 3. Thus spake the ser aph and forth-with Ap-peared a shi-ning throng

"Fear not," said he, for might-y dread Had seized their troubled mind, "The heaven-ly Babe you there shall find, To hu-man view dis-played, "All glo ry be to God on high, And to the earth be peace;

"Glad ti-dings of great joy I bring To you and all man-kind. All meanly wrapt in swathing bands, And in a man-ger laid."

Good-will henceforth from heaven to men Begin, and nev-er cease." A-men.

1. It came up - on the midnight clear,That glorious song of old,
2. Still through the cloven skies they come, With peaceful wings un- furled;
3. O ye, beneath life's crushing load, Whose forms are bending low,
4. For lol the days are hastening on, By proph-et bards fore-told,

From angels bending near the earth, To touch their harps of
And still their heavenly music floats O'er all the wear - y
Who toil a long the climbing way With pain- ful steps and
When, with the ev er - circ- ling years, Comes round the age of

"Peace on the earth, good-will to men From heaven's all-gracious King." Above its sad and low - ly plains They bend on hovering wing, Look now, for glad and gold - en hours Come swift-ly on the wing; When peace shall o - ver all the earth Its an-cient splen-dors fling,

The world in solemn stillness lay To hear the an- gels sing.
And ever o'er its Babel sounds The blessed an- gels sing.

O rest be-side the weary road, And hear the an- -gels sing.
And the whole world send back the song Which now the angels sing. A-men.