CONTENTS 1 A glory fills the midnight sky 2 A new song God has given 3 A song was heard at Christmas 4 A sound of singing fills the air 5 Child of Mary, newly born 6 Child of Mary, softly sleeping 7 Child of the stable’s secret birth 8 Chill of the nightfall 9 Christ is come! Let earth adore him 10 Come now with awe, earth’s ancient vigil keeping 11 Come, watch with us this Christmas night 12 Donkey plod and Mary ride 13 Forsake the courts of heaven 14 Gold for a manger bed 15 Had he not loved us 16 He comes, the Way that all may tread 17 Hear how the bells of Christmas play! 18 Here is the centre: star on distant star 19 Holy child, how still you lie 20 How faint the stable-lantern’s light 21 How silent waits the listening earth 22 Hush you, my baby 23 In our darkness light has shone 24 In the stillness, hark 25 Jesus Christ is born today 26 Light to the world, a child is born 27 Not in lordly state and splendour 28 O child of Mary, hark to her 29 O Prince of peace whose promised birth 30 Peace be yours and dreamless slumber 31 Ring out the bells! The Promised One 32 See, to us a child is born 33 Soft the evening shadows fall 34 Stars of heaven, clear and bright 35 The darkness turns to dawn 36 The hush of midnight here below 37 The King of glory comes to earth 38 The light of glory breaks 39 The shining stars unnumbered 40 Through centuries long the prophets of old 41 To this our world of time and space 42 We sing the song of Christmas 43 When night was over all the earth 44 Where do Christmas songs begin? 45 Within a crib my Saviour lay