https://youtube/watch?v=XQjpDKKPDK4 This particular carol, is sung very rarely and we ought to appreciate it every single time that we hear it and if it’s done in church, the entire original 5 stanza version needs to be sung, because it is in fact a cohesive whole, the entirety of which ought to be commented on, but due to time constraints, both yours and mine, we’ll only look at two specific phrases, if you will, that catch the essence of the Christian message contained within. “And man, at war with man, hears not The love-song which they bring;”. Those two lines, talk of sin. Man is at war with man due to the conflicts which emanate from sin. Plain and simple and it was this sin, which made it necessary for there to be a clear midnight when the angels sung “Peace on Earth and Good Will to all men”. Here are the original lyrics: It came upon the midnight clear, That glorious song of old, From angels bending near the earth, To touch their harps of gold: Peace on the earth, goodwill to men,1 From heavens all-gracious King. The world in solemn stillness lay, To hear the angels sing. Still through the cloven skies they come, With peaceful wings unfurled, And still their heavenly music floats Oer all the weary world; Above its sad and lowly plains, They bend on hovering wing, And ever oer its Babel sounds The blessèd angels sing. Yet with the woes of sin and strife The world has suffered long; Beneath the angel-strain have rolled2 Two thousand years of wrong; And man, at war with man, hears not3 The love-song which they bring;4 O hush the noise, ye men of strife,5 And hear the angels sing. And ye, beneath lifes crushing load,6 Whose forms are bending low, Who toil along the climbing way With painful steps and slow, Look now! for glad and golden hours come swiftly on the wing. O rest beside the weary road, And hear the angels sing! For lo!, the days are hastening on, By prophet bards foretold,7 When with the ever-circling years Comes round the age of gold8 When peace shall over all the earth Its ancient splendors fling,9 And the whole world give back the song10 Which now the angels sing.
Posted on: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 12:46:27 +0000
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