ADVENT WRITING CHALLENGE DAY 5
Lo! He Comes With Clouds Descending
Another wonderful Advent hymn in our writing series.
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
God appears on earth to reign.
This hymn by the prolific English hymn writer Charles Wesley is one of THE classic Advent hymns from most church hymn collections — and is sometimes considered one of “The Great Four.”
In 1885, the Revd James King — a man with more time on his hands than he should have had — surveyed 52 hymnals from the member churches of the Anglican Communion around the world and found that 51 of them included the so-called Great Four.
Along with this hymn were “Hark the Herald, angels sing” — also by Charles Wesley — “Rock of Ages” and one I’d never heard called “All Praise to Thee, my God, this night.”
So what can we say about “Lo, he comes”?
Because of the way we have made Christian festivals out of the highs and lows of the story of Jesus, we tend to think…
