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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=195 BGCOLOR="#006600" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="044bc680.gif" border=0 width="700" height="104" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="040c2c73.jpg"> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="0425a9b0.jpg" border=0 width="90" height="155" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>The Story </B></div> <div> <B>Of </B></div> <div> <B>Hark the Herald Sings</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#003399" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>This hymn can best be appreciated if one hears it sung as a carol in the darkness of the night under the open sky, when the hard lines of daylight are obscured and the sensible objects are lost to sight, when the mystery of the night stirs the imagination and when we can take our place with the humble shepherds of Bethlehem to whom the wondrous news first was revealed.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="04594e10.jpg" border=0 width="148" height="225" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The beautiful imagery deals with the incarnation, the regeneration, and the glorious hope of things to come. When we gather all the wealth of the meaning of Jesus to men into the simplicity of the Christmas story its sacred beauty can be celebrated only by the song of the angels. It was written and first published in 1739.</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#003399" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> <B>The music first appeared in Mendelssohn's "Festgesang for Male Chorus and Orchestra," which was written for a festival held at Leipzig in 1840 to commemorate the invention of printing. It was adapted by Dr. William H Communing, organist at Waltham Abbey, England, as a setting for Charles Wesley's Words Hark the Herald Angels Sing, and was first published in this form in 1856. Prior to that time this great hymn had no definite association with any tune.</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0466ffa0.jpg" border=0 width="111" height="250" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Charles Wesley,the author was born in 1707. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford where he graduated in 1729. His hymns number at least 650 many of which are now forgotten. </B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=285 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="040c2c73.jpg"> <div>  <embed src="HTMLobj-84/Hark2.mid" autostart="true" hidden="true">  </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>    </div> <div> <IMG SRC="04a53640.gif" border=0 width="83" height="100" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">                             <IMG SRC="04853640.gif" border=0 width="83" height="100" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <IMG SRC="04b00860.jpg" border=0 width="256" height="390" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div>  <embed src="HTMLobj-77/187_-_Hark_the_Herald_Angels_Sing______MK__1_.mid" autostart="false" width="145" height="70">  </div> <bR> <div> <B>Hark The Herald Angels Sing</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Hark the herald angels sing</B></div> <div>  <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#00FF00" FACE="Dolphin Wide" ><B>Glory to the newborn King</B></FONT> </div> <div> <B>Peace on earth and mercy mild</B></div> <div> <B>God and sinners reconcled</B></div> <div>  <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#00FF00" FACE="Dolphin Wide" ><B>Joyful all ye nations rise</B></FONT></div> <div>  <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#00FF00" FACE="Dolphin Wide" ><B>Join the triumph of the skies</B></FONT> </div> <div> <B>With th' angelic host proclaim</B></div> <div> <B>Christ is born in Bethlehem</B></div> <div> <B>Christ by highest heav'n adored</B></div> <div>  <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#00FF00" FACE="Dolphin Wide" ><B>Christ the everlasting Lord</B></FONT> </div> <div> <B>Late in time behold him come</B></div> <div>  <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#00FF00" FACE="Dolphin Wide" ><B>Offspring ofa virgin's womb</B></FONT></div> <div>  <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#00FF00" FACE="Dolphin Wide" ><B>Veiled in flesh the godhead </B></FONT></div> <div> <B>see</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT><B>Hail th' incarnate deity</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> <B>Pleased as man with man to dwell</B></div> <div>  <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#00FF00" FACE="Dolphin Wide" ><B>Jesus our Emmanuel</B></FONT> </div> <div> <B>Hark the herald angels sing</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> <B>Glory to the newborn king</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Hail the heav'nborn prince of peace</B></div> <div>  <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#00FF00" FACE="Dolphin Wide" ><B>Hail the sun of righteousness</B></FONT></div> <div>  <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#00FF00" FACE="Dolphin Wide" ><B>Light and life to all he brings</B></FONT> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#00FF00" FACE="Dolphin Wide" ><B>risen</B></FONT></div> <div> <B> with healing in his wings</B></div> <div>  <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#00FF00" FACE="Dolphin Wide" ><B>Mild he lay his glory by</B></FONT> </div> <div> <B>Born that man no more may die</B></div> <div>  <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#00FF00" FACE="Dolphin Wide" ><B>Born to raise the sons of earth</B></FONT></div> <div>  <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#00FF00" FACE="Dolphin Wide" ><B>Born to give them second birth</B></FONT> </div> <div> <B>Hark the herald angels sing</B></div> <div> <B>Glory to the newborn king</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="04e7f880.gif" border=0 width="127" height="136" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="04f6e290.jpg" border=0 width="366" height="297" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://hspublish.homestead.com/~site/Scripts_NewGuest/NewGuest.dll?CMD=CMDGetSubmitForm&STYLE=simple%2F&ENTRYID=&FORWARDFLAG=true&GBID=6522164&DISPLAY=31&EMAILADDRESS=ENC__2272ca884a17aa396378a782a547f448&EM=true&CUSTOMVALUE=false&H_H=8302462&H_P=1&H_A=11078896&H_V=2&H_I=0&H_U=6967969" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://hspublish.homestead.com/~site/Scr"><U><B><IMG SRC="050ca640.jpg" border=0 width="202" height="100" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>          </B><A 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