Christmas Hymns in CRC Hymnals

This post is sort of an appendix to my previous post on Christmas songs from the 1987 Psalter Hymnal that didn’t get included in Lift Up Your Hearts showing all the changes in Christmas songs between the two hymnals.

Christmas Hymns in both the gray Psalter Hymnal (1987) and Lift Up Your Hearts [14]

Four hymns from the 69 to appear in all three Psalter Hymnals and Lift Up Your Hearts:
“Angels from the Realms of Glory” (LUYH #81/PH87 #354/PH57 #340/HFW #114)
“Hark! The Herald Angels Sing” (LUYH #80/PH87 #345/PH57 #339/HFW #82)
“Joy to the World! The Lord is Come” (LUYH #92/PH87 #337/PH57 #337/HFW #78/SWM #94)
“O Come, All Ye Faithful” (LUYH #76/PH87 #340/PH57 #341/HFW #100/SWM #102)

One hymn that was added to the 1957 Psalter Hymnal:
“Silent Night! Holy Night!” (LUYH #85/PH87 #344/PH57 #342/HFW #116)

Nine more hymns in both the the 1987 PH and LUYH:
“Angels We Have Heard on High” (LUYH #82/PH87 #347/HFW #112/SWM #90)
“Away in a Manger” (LUYH #86/PH87 #348/349/SWM #87)
“Glory to God/Ere zij God” (LUYH #84/PH87 #214)
“Go, Tell It on a Mountain” (LUYH #93/PH87 #356/HFW #184)
“Good Christian Friends Rejoice” (LUYH #98/PH87 #355/HFW #43)
“Lo, How a Rose E’re Blooming” (LUYH #79/PH87 #351/HFW #53)
“Of the Father’s Love Begotten” (LUYH #78/PH87 #342/HFW #23)
“Once in Royal David’s City” (LUYH #87/PH87 #346/HFW #131)

“Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence” (LUYH #821/PH87 #341/HFW #24) [moved to The Lord’s Supper section in LUYH]

Christmas Hymns New to Lift Up Your Hearts [12]

Two classics:
“O Little Town of Bethlehem” (LUYH #88/HFW #180)
“What Child Is This” (LUYH #95)

Three New Testament Canticles:
“Gloria/Glory” (LUYH #77/SNC #116)
“Gloria, Gloria/Glory to God” (LUYH #83/SNC #115/SWM #93)
“Lord, Bid Your Servant Go In Peace” (LUYH #97/HFW #15/SWM #103/SNT #11)

Four 20th Century Christmas Hymns:
“Lord, You Were Rich Beyond All Splendor” (LUYH #75)
“God Reigns! Earth Rejoices” (LUYH #91)
“In the Heavens Show a Star” (LUYH #94)
“What Feast of Love” (LUYH #96)

Three older Christmas songs:
“How Great Our Joy” (LUYH #90/SNT #10)
“Jesus, Jesus, Oh, What a Wonderful Child” (LUYH #99/SNC #108)
“O Christmas Night” (LUYH #89)

In the gray Psalter Hymnal, but not Lift Up Your Hearts [6]

“Break Forth, O Beauteous Heavenly Light” (PH87 #343/PH #344)
“Christians Awake” (PH87 #350/PH57 #346)
“Come and Stand Amazed, You People” (PH87 #338)
“From Heaven Above to Earth I Come” (PH87 #339/PH57 #345/SNT #9)
“Infant Holy, Infant Lowly” (PH87 #353)
“That Boy Child of Mary” (PH87 #352/SWM #100)

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