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It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (Agape)
Edmund H. Sears, arr. Arnold B. Sherman
Edmund Sears wrote this hymn text in 1849, directly following the
Mexican American War and in the contentious decade
before the American Civil War. While the background is
obviously the story of the incarnation, the emphasis is
on the need for the application of the love there revealed
to contemporary life, particularly political issues of war
and peace, abundance and want, as seen by the third
stanza, often omitted from modern hymn collections:
But with the woes of sin and strife the world has suffered long;
Beneath the angel-strain have rolled two thousand years of
wrong; And man, at war with man, hears not the love-song
which they bring; Oh hush the noise, ye men of strife, and hear
the angels sing.