They Wrote Our Hymns

It is a great help towards more thoughtful worship if we know something about the great company of men and women who wrote the classic hymns of Britain - something about their lives their spiritual stories and their records as authors.This book gives us the essential facts together with a critical commentary.). The result is a fresh introduction to a most interesting slice of history ptures. from Isaac Watts publishing his `songs before unknown' in 1707 hrough the Wesleys and the Catholic Revival to the death of the prolific John Ellerton in 1893.