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What Better Way to Spend the Night (Christmas Hymn)

Words: Andrew Pratt, 2012
Music: tune, WALTHAM, John Baptiste Calkin, 1872
Scripture: Matthew 2:16-18
Topic: Slaughter of the Innocents; Herod; children; care; compassion

Each year British Methodist pastor and hymn writer Andrew Pratt composes a poem as Christmas greeting. This is his greeting for 2012, set to the familiar tune of "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day."

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