The next is a favourite Christmas hymn:
| What is in Ephrata heard? Angels bringing joyful word: What new song of heaven have they? Christ is born! is born to-day! Haste to David's city, haste! God is there made manifest; See the King of glory, see, Brother of us all is He! | | Silent babe, what name has He? Lord of all eternity: What hath brought Him down so low? Love for sinful man to show:-- Wings of tender mercies bright Brought Him down from heaven's height; Let the beauty of His praise Ever be on all our days. | | 129 To the angels what is He? Their high Prince of majesty; What to us who sin and fall He is Brother of us all: Then if angel-harps be His, What we owe much larger is: Christ the Lord--He is our own! Let the wide earth be His throne. | |