Scripture: The people who sit in the darkness see the great light, and those who sit in the land of the shadow of death see the light shining on them. Song of Silent Night is the most dazzling pearl in American hymns. After graduating from Sears University, the author went to United Law School for further study. He intended to be a lawyer all his life, but one day he heard the call of preaching, so he gave up studying law and went to Harvard Theological Seminary to prepare for his main work.
He studied hard and studied hard, and finally got a doctorate from Harvard University. He didn't envy city life, so he resolutely returned to his hometown as a priest. He loved the quiet life in small cities, engaged in pen farming after work, often wrote articles for religious magazines, and later served as deputy editor. 1846 In order to commemorate Christmas, he wrote this song "Song of Silent Night", and it took three years to put it on the title. Peace on Earth was sent to a church magazine in Boston, and it was forgotten for another year before it was published for readers.
Praise poetry
Hymns are a kind of songs, which are usually used in religious occasions. It is specially written for praise, worship or prayer, and is usually dedicated to one or more gods, or a famous figure or incarnation. Christian hymns are poems that praise God in worship. Poetry in the Old Testament is mainly hymns. The lyrics of hymns are worship, praise, gratitude and prayer to God, and the music scores are mostly tenors, tenors, tenors and bass, which are used for chorus.
There are also poems written for specific festivals or events. There was no harmony and accompaniment in the early hymns, and the earliest existing complete lyrics were Greek hymns, written about 200 AD. /kloc-During the Reformation in Europe in the 6th century, the melody and range of hymns changed greatly, and the church began to edit hymns. Protestantism is characterized by all the participants singing hymns together in the worship ceremony.