Isaac Watts was a renowned hymnwriter whose songs profoundly changed the face of church music. He wrote over 750 hymns, including well-known ones like Joy to the World and When I Survey the Wondrous ...

Isaac Watts’s 1719 paraphrase of Psalm 98 became a Christmas classic when it was set to music by Lowell Mason—the “father of American hymnody”—and it is now one of the most popular Christmas hymns in ...