A DREAM STORY- THE CHRISTMAS ANGEL by HENRY VAN DYKE
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 18 December 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Christmas comes early to 1001 Greatest Love Stories with this classic Henry Van Dyke story telling of how the hosts of heaven decided to save the Earth from itself. Its a well written piece and I thought you might enjoy it.
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| 0:00.0 | The Welcome back everyone to one thousand one greatest love stories. This is your |
| 0:27.7 | host John Haggadorn. Today a dream story the Christmas, by Henry Van Dyke. |
| 0:35.4 | Henry Van Dyke was an American author, educator, and clergyman, born in 1852 in Germantown, Pennsylvania. |
| 0:43.3 | He attended Princeton University, |
| 0:45.2 | graduating in 1873. |
| 0:47.4 | From then, matriculated at the Princeton Theological Seminary |
| 0:50.3 | from which he graduated in 1877. |
| 0:53.0 | He returned to Princeton as a professor of English literature, |
| 0:56.0 | a post that he held from 1899 to 1923. |
| 1:01.0 | As a member of the clergy, Christmas and Easter were special holidays for Henry Van Dyke. |
| 1:07.0 | He wrote some popular Christmas stories, including The Otherwise Men, The First Christmas tree, and keeping Christmas. |
| 1:14.0 | Today's story is one of his best known stories. |
| 1:19.0 | It was the hour of rest in the country beyond the stars. |
| 1:24.0 | All the silver bells that swing with the turning of the great ring of light which lies round that land |
| 1:29.5 | were softly chiming, and the sound of their commotion went down like dew upon the golden ways of the city and the |
| 1:36.4 | long alleys of blossoming trees and the meadows of Aspodal and the curving shores of the River of Life. |
| 1:45.0 | At the hearing of that chime, all the angels who had been working turned to play, and all |
| 1:49.9 | who had been playing gave themselves joyfully to work. Those who had been singing and |
| 1:55.0 | making melody on different instruments fell silent and began to listen. Those who |
| 2:00.5 | had been walking alone in meditation met together in companies to talk. |
| 2:05.0 | And those who have been far away on errands to the Earth and other planets |
| 2:09.0 | came homeward like a flight of swallows to the high cliff when the day is over. |
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