This popular Christmas song would probably ... Charles Wesley had suggested that his own hymn text “Hark, how all the welkin [heaven] rings” should be sung to a slow and solemn melody.

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 ...

He had the lyrics in 15 ... s five-hour long Christmas Eve celebration, complete with hymns. This experience proved so ...