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Hark! The Herald Wesley Wrote: How a Christmas Hymn Transformed America
TweetShareShare In 1739 a young colonial Georgia preacher wrote a “Hymn for Christmas Day.” His opening line was “Hark! how all the welkin rings.” Welkin is an old Dutch word for “heaven.” The lyricist’s name? Charles Wesley. In the late 1720s, he and his older brother John had founded a new form of Protestant Christianity…
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