Here’s the story behind ‘O Little Town ... Bethlehem and visited, according to the story, the spot where Jesus was born. Three years later, he wrote the poem for a Christmas Sunday-school service and ...

In a letter written to gospel-music publisher Hubert R ... The inspiration for ''O Little Town of Bethlehem" probably came to Brooks on Christmas Eve in 1865 in Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity ...