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"It Came Upon the Midnight Clear", sometimes rendered as "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear", is an 1849 poem and Christmas carol written by Edmund Sears, pastor of the Unitarian Church in Wayland, Massachusetts.
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Dec 18, 2015 · Here's a carol that was written by an American: Reverend Edmund Hamilton Sears in 1849. He wrote only two hymns in his life, and "It Came Upon A Midnight Clear" was one of them.
Dec 23, 2015 · It might come as a surprise, then, to know that the author of It came upon the midnight clear, the US pastor and writer Edmund Hamilton Sears (1810-1876), was a minister in a Church which does not subscribe to the doctrine of the Trinity, and that the hymn has been condemned as not really a hymn at all. Hymn scholar Erik Routley wrote that "in ...
Edmund H. Sears. “It came upon a midnight clear, That glorious song of old, From angels bending near the earth, To touch their harps of gold: ‘Peace on the earth, good will to men, From heaven’s all-gracious King.’. The world in solemn stillness lay, To hear the angels sing.”
This fine Christmas hymn is a meditation on man’s wilful deafness to the message of the angels, and not surprisingly, was written by a Unitarian minister: the Unitarian Church has a long and continuing history of social concern (p. 375). (1988) offered this assessment of the song and its message:
Nov 27, 2016 · The poem first appeared in the Boston Christian Register on December 29, 1849. He wrote It Came Upon a Midnight Clear during a time of personal melancholy. He had recently suffered a break down and left a larger congregation in Lancaster, Massachusetts to return to his Wayland congregation.
"It Came Upon a Midnight Clear" is a hymn and Christmas carol written by Edmund Sears, pastor of the Unitarian Church in Wayland, Massachusetts. Sears' lyrics are most regularly set to "Noel," modified by Arthur Sullivan from an English melody, or to "Carol," arranged by Richard Storrs Willis.
