Hymnody (the singing or composition of hymns) has evolved and changed over the centuries and been affected by new thinking and developing religious beliefs: throughout the history of the church ...

Christmas 1945 was the first after WW 2 and my parents were engaged to be married in the following April. This Hymn Book was my mothers gift to my father that Christmas and is suitably inscribed ...

Isaac Watts’s 1719 paraphrase of Psalm 98 became a Christmas classic when it was ... and it is now one of the most popular Christmas hymns in North America. Mason routinely gave credit to ...