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c. 2004 Religion News Service (UNDATED) It is semi-dark when we gather for worship in a church up North. Snow is falling, temperature plunging, the day not yet fully dawned. Darkness might have eased its hold during the closing hymn, ``O Come, O Come, Emmanuel,'' a g...



