Nineteenth century minister Edmund Sears, who held to original Unitarianism during a time of radical upheaval in the Church, was the author of many theological works that were influential even outside of Unitarian Christianity.

But it was his poem of peace, written in the mid-1800s when the whole world seemed torn by war, that has become his greatest legacy.  Despite its somewhat extreme pacifism, the melancholy and longing for peace suit well the principles of the Reformed Unitarian Church.

On this Christmas Eve, we share the American Unitarian Reform version of Reverend Sears’s It Came Upon A Midnight Clear:

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