The New York Times

FAMILIAR HYMNS.; The Rev. Dr. Benson's Interesting Study of Their History.

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Wall Street Journal

Isaac Watts’s Poetic Hymn to Christ’s Sacrifice

Before Captain Ahab sets sail in quest of the white whale, a “small choice copy of Watts [is placed] in each seaman’s berth” by the sister of one of the Pequod’s owners. In 1851, nearly every reader ...
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette

Professor’s book traces the history of Christian hymns

Five hundred years after Martin Luther and a colleague published their first hymnal, Princeton Theological Seminary Professor Emeritus Paul Rorem has written a book that provides what his publisher ...
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette

In another's footsteps

The battles cries of the old Dr. Watts’ hymns still pound in my heart, filling me with passion, helping me to focus, to stand and to fight for things of God. Yes, I am at the end of generation X and ...