Verse 1
Angels rejoiced and sweetly sung
At our Redeemer’s birth;
Mortals! awake: let every tongue
Proclaim his matchless worth.
Verse 2
Glory to God, who dwells on high,
And sent his only Son
To take a servant’s form, and die,
For evils we had done!
Verse 3
Good-will to men; ye fallen race!
Arise, and shout for joy;
He comes, with rich abounding grace
To save and not destroy.
Verse 4
Lord! send the gracious tidings forth,
And fill the world with light,
That Jew and Gentile, through the earth,
May know thy saving might.
Verse 5
William Hurn, 1813.
Verse 6
1O3 Salvation Morning, 7s & 6s.
Verse 7
God’s Salvation Morning.
Verse 8
What means this glorious radiance
Across Judea’s plain?
Those white-winged angels singing
In such exultant strain?
Refrain
The King of glory cometh,
Earth’s broken hearts to bind,
And God’s salvation morning
Hath dawned for all mankind.
Verse 9
What means this wondrous story
The holy angels tell?
Of one who reigned in heaven,
And now on earth would dwell?
Verse 10
Why bend these Eastern sages
To one of lowly birth?
What means this heav’nly message
Of love and peace on earth?
Verse 11
Ye wand’rers in earth’s darkness,
On ocean deep and land,
Hail! hail! the joyful tidings,
The morning is at hand.
M. E. Servoss, “Angels Rejoiced and Sweetly Sung”