... That was the first accident that happened to this hymn. It got into the prayer book by mistake. The second accident involved a great singer who was singing some music composed by the great Felix Mendelssohn. One day while Mr. Cummings, the singer, was practicing, he found that the poem written by Charles Wesley just fit some of Mendelssohn’s music. He began to sing the poem to the great music and everyone began to call this famous Christmas Carol by a new name, "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing." It is still ...
... percent of our genes within the past 60,000 years did create the anatomical basis for spoken complex language. Certainly as long ago as Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man, it has been pointed out that we are similar to other animals in being subject to the same ... and job security in the business world and good grades in the educational institution. We don't hand out bonuses or cum laude honors based on "feelings." When the machine becomes older or weaker and falls behind in production or starts making poor ...
... heaven makes a long noise." He put the words to the music and it became very popular in his church. Charles Wesley had an old college friend, another famous preacher, named George Whitfield. Whitfield published this song and without consulting Wesley ... 2:13 which doesn't speak of angels, but "a heavenly host." What is even more intriguing is that a man named Williams Cummings took a song that was dedicated to Johann Gutenberg, who printed the first Bible and his arrangement was printed in a Methodist hymnal ...
... Those Already Suggested) Music for Preparation and Dismissal Christmas carols and one Epiphany hymn. Make the people aware of the Epiphany hymn, and the Epiphany season. Response to the Scripture "Hark! the Herald Angels Sing," Charles Wesley, 1739; alt. Felix Mendelssohn, 1840; arr. William Hayman Cummings, 1855. Response to the Stewardship Challenge "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring." Response to the Benediction "I'm Gonna Sing When The Spirit Says Sing," Spiritual from Let the People Sing. (See Appendix I for ...
... when your life is slowly or abruptly slipping into the pits. All "the bright and shiny people" (who R.E.M. sang about and e e cummings wrote about) who come to church seem to give the impression that suffering, hurt, and pain have no place in church or in the heart of ... engages in an utterly heroic and selfless act. He makes an eloquent and valiant defense of his friend, King Charles II, before the British parliament. The decadent, self-serving pervert had been transformed into a selfless and patriotic hero ...
