21/12/2021
Written by Charles Wesley, who was an English Methodist leader and hymn writer. Wesley wrote over 6,000 hymns, more than any other male Wesley, inspired by the sounds of London church bells while walking to church on Christmas Day, wrote the “Hark” poem about a year after his conversion to be read on Christmas Day. The poem first appeared in Hymns and Sacred Poems in 1739 with the opening line of “Hark how the welkin (heaven) rings.” We present to you a version that borrows heavily from The Spiritual Choir fused to lay emphasis on what happened after an angel of the Lord told the shepherds about the birth of Jesus... the angel was joined by an army of angels, and they sang praises to God
