Christmas Song #7: Index and Resources

Who is He in Yonder Stall? is a song of contrasts. We have a Baby in an animal’s feeding trough. We have a Man in the wilderness, weeping. Then we have a Man who is sought after and admired for His compassion and gracious words. But then He prays in the garden, and dies an […]

Even those unfamiliar with the Authorized Version (King James) of the Bible might know this archaic word. After all, even today many people know the story of the angels and shepherds in Old English: And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And, lo, the […]

When Who is He in Yonder Stall? was first published, every verse was a couplet of its own, making 10 verses, almost all starting with “Who is He”. 90 years later, in 1956, in the Worship and Service Hymnal, Donald Hustad combined two couplets for each stanza, giving the song the form it has today. My […]