Hymn & History
Luke 2:14
“Hark The Herald Angels Sing”
By Charles Wesley, 1739
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Hymn Lyrics
THE LYRICS ~
“Hark The Herald Angels Sing”
Hark! the herald angels sing,
Glory to the newborn King:
peace on earth, and mercy mild,
God and sinners reconciled!”
Joyful, all ye nations, rise,
join the triumph of the skies;
with th’angelic hosts proclaim,
“Christ is born in Bethlehem!
Refrain:
Hark! the herald angels sing,
“Glory to the newborn King”
Christ, by highest heaven adored,
Christ, the everlasting Lord,
late in time behold him come,
offspring of the Virgin’s womb:
veiled in flesh the Godhead see;
hail th’incarnate Deity,
pleased with us in flesh to dwell,
Jesus, our Immanuel. [Refrain]
Hail the heaven-born Prince of Peace!
Hail the Sun of Righteousness!
Light and life to all he brings,
risen with healing in his wings.
Mild he lays his glory by,
born that we no more may die,
born to raise us from the earth,
born to give us second birth. [Refrain]
The Author of the Hymn
THE AUTHOR ~ Charles Wesley
Born December 18, 1707 in Epworth, United Kingdom
Died March 29, 1788 in London, United Kingdom
Charles Wesley was the youngest son of Samuel and Susanna Wesley, Wesley entered Westminster School, London in 1716. In 1726 he was elected to Christ Church College, Oxford, where he translated Greek and Latin classics into English verse. In 1735, in order to aid his brother, John, in a mission to Georgia, he accepted holy orders.
Charles was subject to greater extremes of emotion than his brother, and his spiritual despair and physical exhaustion in Georgia led him to return happily to England after only a few months’ stay. With the help of the Moravians, like his brother John, he found spiritual peace. On Whitsunday, May 21, 1738, he found himself “at peace with God.” He became a very eloquent preacher for the Methodist cause and translated the gospel message into hymns, which became important means of evangelism.
As a hymn-writer, Charles Wesley was unique. He is said to have written no less than 6,500 hymns. Of course, in so vast a number some are of unequal merit, it is perfectly marvelous how many there are which rise to the highest degree of excellence. His feelings on every occasion of importance, whether private or public, found their best expression in a hymn. The saying, “that a really good hymn is as rare an appearance as that of a comet” is falsified by the work of Charles Wesley. As hymns, which are really good in every respect, flowed from his pen in quick succession, and death alone stopped the course of the perennial stream.
History of Hymn
THE HISTORY ~ “Hark The Herald Angels Sing”
A Christmas carol that first appeared in 1739 in the collection Hymns and Sacred Poems. As it is known in the modern era, it features lyrical contributions from Charles Wesley & George Whitefield, two of the founding ministers of Methodism, with music adapted from “Vaterland, in deinen Gauen” by Felix Mendelssohn.
Wesley, who had written the original version as “Hymn for Christmas-Day,” had requested & received slow & solemn music for his lyrics, which has since largely been discarded. Moreover, Wesley’s original opening couplet is “Hark! how all the welkin rings / Glory to the King of Kings”.The popular version is the result of alterations by various hands, notably by Whitefield, who changed the opening couplet to the familiar one, and by Felix, whose melody was used for the lyrics. In 1840—a hundred years after the publication of Hymns and Sacred Poems—Mendelssohn composed a canata to commemorate Johann Gutenberg’s invention of movable type printing, & it is music from this cantata, adapted by the English musician William H. Cummings to fit the lyrics of “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing”, that propels the carol known today.
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