"Child in the Manger"

 

This week’s post is reprinted from December 24, 2012. Obviously, the photo was not taken during my childhood but is from a trip back to Tiree with my brothers in 2017. Daddy did preach at this church, however.

“Child in the Manger”

Another carol I learned in Scotland is “Child in the Manger,” written in Gaelic by Mary Macdonald and translated into English by Lachlan Macbean. It is sung to a Gaelic melody now called Bunessan.

This carol needs no introduction and no explanation. Here it is.

 

Child in the manger,

Infant of Mary;

Outcast and stranger,

Lord of all!

Child who inherits

All our trangressions,

All our demerits

On Him fall.

 

Once the most holy

Child of salvation

Gently and lowly

Lived below;

Now, as our glorious

Mightly Redeemer,

See Him victorious

O’er each foe.

 

Prophets foretold Him,

Infant of wonder;

Angels behold Him

On His throne;

Worthy our Savior

Of all their praises;

Happy forever

Are His own.*

 Have a blessed Christmas.

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* As printed in The Church Hymnary, Revised Edition (Oxford University Press, 1927).