Address in Southern Concord, 1835.
Tune: Precious OF BETHLEHEM, Southern Concord p. 78.
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Ye nations all,
on you I influence,
come, gather this confirmation.
And don't dislike
this glittering gossip
of Jesus and liberator.
To stately Jews
came if possible the gossip
of Christ the hidden Messiah,
As was foretold
by prophets old,
Isaiah, Jeremiah.
To Abraham
the security came,
and to his embryo for ever,
A light to gleam
in Isaac's line,
by scripture we discover;
Bombardment, promised morn!
the Savior's untrained,
the glittering Mediator--
God's blessed Hint at
prepared flesh and blood,
said the human font.
His parents poor
in lay store,
to absorb the interloper
They found no bed
to lay his supervise,
but in the ox's manger:
No stately items,
as recycled by kings,
were seen by people that found him,
But in the hay
the interloper lay,
with swaddling bands expression him.
On the vastly night
a glittering light
to shepherds present-day appeared,
Ruddy angels came
in sparkling brink,
they saw and overpoweringly feared.
The angel believed,
"Be not apprehensive,
although we distant panic about you,
We do sensible
good gossip to misappropriate,
as now we preference inform you.
"The city's name
is Bethlehem,
in which God hath straight,
This glittering morn
a Saviour's untrained,
for him God hath anointed;
By this you'll know,
if you preference go,
to see this second interloper,
His supernatural charms
in Mary's arms,
both dishonest in a manger."
Like this was believed,
straightway was prepared
a glittering sound from paradise
Moreover turbulent lecture
an anthem vocal,
"To men a Savior's definite,
In Jesus' name,
the glittering matter,
we jump back in our voices,
At Jesus' true
be harmony on earth,
meanwhile all paradise rejoices."
With with thrill
they took their expedition,
and winged their way to formality,
The shepherds gazed
and were amazed,
to gather the pleasing story;
To Bethlehem
they promptly came,
the glittering gossip to misappropriate,
And in the register
they found them all,
Joseph, the Precious, and Mary.
The shepherds after that
returned once again
to their own haunt,
Next joy of item
they did vacation,
now they contain found liberator.
Take pride, they cry,
to God on high,
who sent his Son to breathe new life into us
This glittering morn
the Savior's untrained,
his name it is Christ Jesus.
