{"id":3797,"date":"2025-12-13T19:18:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T19:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/2025\/12\/13\/hymn-489-o-little-town-lyrics\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T19:18:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T19:18:52","slug":"hymn-489-o-little-town-lyrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/all-believer-hymn-book\/hymn-489-o-little-town-lyrics\/","title":{"rendered":"Hymn 489 O LITTLE TOWN Lyrics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All Believer Hymn Book<\/p>\n<p>Hymn 489 O LITTLE TOWN Lyrics<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1. O little town of Bethlehem,<br \/>\n\tHow still we see thee lie!<br \/>\n\tAbove thy deep and dreamless sleep<br \/>\n\tThe silent stars go by.<br \/>\n\tYet in thy dark streets shineth<br \/>\n\tThe everlasting Light;<br \/>\n\tThe hopes and fears of all the years<br \/>\n\tAre met in thee tonight.<\/p>\n<p>\t2. For Christ is born of Mary;<br \/>\n\tAnd gathered all above,<br \/>\n\tWhile mortals sleep, the angels keep<br \/>\n\tTheir watch of wondering love.<br \/>\n\tO morning stars, together Proclaim the holy birth,<br \/>\n\tAnd praises sing to God the King,<br \/>\n\tAnd peace to men on earth.<\/p>\n<p>\t3. How silently, how silently wondrous gift is given!<br \/>\n\tSo God imparts to human hearts<br \/>\n\tThe blessings of His heaven.<br \/>\n\tNo car may hear His coming;<br \/>\n\tBut in this world of sin,<br \/>\n\tWhere meek soul will receive Him still,<br \/>\n\tThe dear Christ enters in.<\/p>\n<p>\t4. O holy child of Bethlehem,<br \/>\n\tDescend to us, we pray<br \/>\n\tCast our sin and enter in Be born in us today.<br \/>\n\tWe hear the Christian angels<br \/>\n\tThe great glad tidings tell,<br \/>\n\tO come to us, abide with us,<br \/>\n\tOur Lord Emmanuel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Believer Hymn Book Hymn 489 O LITTLE TOWN Lyrics &nbsp; 1. O little town of Bethlehem, How still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by. Yet in thy dark streets shineth The everlasting Light; The hopes and fears of all the years Are met in thee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-believer-hymn-book"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5265,"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797\/revisions\/5265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}