Which Christmas carol was composed by Rector Phillip Brooks following a pilgrimage to the Holy Land where he had felt mesmerized by the town in which Jesus was born?
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"Phillips Brooks graduated Harvard University, and he educated at the Boston Latin School however bombed horribly in that position and was requested to leave.
He abandoned scholarly community to the ministry and moved on from the Virginia Theological Seminary in 1860. His first position was as minister of Holy Trinity Church in Philadelphia where absolved himself well for a long time.
He turned into an incredibly appreciated evangelist and advocated liberation and the privilege of liberated captives to cast a ballot. Under his authority, the gathering flourished. After the Civil War, he moved to Europe and the Middle East, which was then known as the Holy Land.
Amid Christmas seven day stretch of 1865, he and a voyaging sidekick had an early supper and after that mounted their ponies for a two-hour ride to Bethlehem. In a letter home he portrayed it as, "". . . an attractive town, preferable worked over some other we have found in Palestine."
He proceeded, "Before dull, we rode away to the field where they state the shepherds saw the star. It is a fenced bit of ground with a collapse it (all the Holy Places are buckles here), in which, for some odd reason, they put the shepherds.
The story is crazy, yet someplace in those fields, we rode through the shepherds more likely than not be. As we passed, the shepherds were all the while 'keeping watch over their groups or driving them home to overlap.'
After three years, Mr. Rivulets reacted to an offer from Lewis H. Redner, the Sunday school organist at Holy Trinity, who said that he would make music for a hymn if Mr. Streams would compose the words.
Mr. Streams recalled that Christmas visited Bethlehem and wrote the four stanzas we sing today. The tune starts with a basic, yet idyllic, depiction of the town:
Bethlehem"" O little town of Bethlehem,
How still we see thee lie;
Above thy profound and dreamless rest
The quiet stars pass by.""
"O Little Town of Bethlehem" was first imprinted in the program for the Christmas administration of the Church of the Holy Trinity's Sunday School and sung there on Christmas Day of 1868.
It picked up fame dependent on the blend of Mr. Rivulets' basic however expressive words and Mr. Redner's delightful music.""
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