Alan Watts ( 1975: xix ) explains using Wade – Giles " in spite of its defects " but writes: " No uninitiated English-speaking person could guess how to pronounce it, and I have even thought, in a jocularly malicious state of mind, that Professors Wade and Giles invented it so as to erect a barrier between profane and illiterate people and true scholars.

In many Christadelphian hymn books a sizeable proportion of hymns are drawn from the Scottish Psalter and non-Christadelphian hymn-writers including Isaac Watts, Charles Wesley, William Cowper and John Newton.

The earlier English writers tended to paraphrase biblical texts, particularly Psalms ; Isaac Watts followed this tradition, but is also credited as having written the first English hymn which was not a direct paraphrase of Scripture.

His father invited him to see what he could do about it ; the result was Watts ' first hymn, " Behold the glories of the Lamb.

One of the most common manifestations of stanzaic form in poetry in English ( and in other Western European languages ) is represented in texts for church hymns, such as the first three stanzas ( of nine ) from a poem by Isaac Watts ( from 1719 ) cited immediately below ( in this case, each stanza is to be sung to the same hymn tune, composed earlier by William Croft in 1708 ):

* November 25 – Isaac Watts, English hymn writer ( b. 1674 )

The BBC has for many years introduced its 7 am News broadcast on Radio 4 on Good Friday with a verse from Isaac Watts ' hymn " When I Survey the Wondrous Cross ".

The hymn, " When I Survey the Wondrous Cross ", was written by Isaac Watts, and published in Hymns and Spiritual Songs in 1707.

* O God our help in ages past ( this is the official school hymn of King Edward VI School, Southampton, Watts ' alma mater )

For example, number 667 is worthy of Watts and Wesley, both highly regarded for their hymn writing abilities.

* November 25 — Isaac Watts, hymn writer ( born 1674 )

The School hymn is O God, Our Help in Ages Past, written by a famous former pupil, Isaac Watts.

The words are by English hymn writer Isaac Watts, based on Psalm 98 in the Bible.

Watts wrote the words of " Joy to the World " as a hymn glorifying Christ's triumphant return at the end of the age, rather than a song celebrating His first coming.

The hymn From all that dwell below the skies, a paraphrasing of Psalm 117 by Isaac Watts with the Doxology as the final verse, is commonly sung to the tune.

One of Croft's most enduring pieces is the hymn tune " St Anne " written to the poem Our God, Our Help in Ages Past by Isaac Watts.

The earlier English writers tended to paraphrase biblical text, particularly Psalms ; Isaac Watts followed this tradition, but is also credited as having written the first English hymn which was not a direct paraphrase of Scripture.

One of the songs in Virginia Harmony was the Isaac Watts hymn " There Is a Land of Pure Delight ", set to the anonymous folk tune " Harmony Grove ".

For example, We are the Lost uses the poems " In Flanders Fields " by John McCrae and " For the Fallen " by Laurence Binyon, along with a single stanza from the English hymn, " O God, Our Help in Ages Past " by Isaac Watts.

Watts ( 1674 – 1748 ), whose father was an Elder of a dissenter congregation, complained at age 16, that when allowed only psalms to sing, the faithful could not even sing about their Lord, Christ Jesus.

:" While he granted that David whom authorship of many of the Psalms is traditionally ascribed was unquestionably a chosen instrument of God, Watts claimed that his religious understanding could not have fully apprehended the truths later revealed through Jesus Christ.

# Directed by Peter Watts 23 December 1951, with Deryck Guyler as Jesus

It was during this time that wealthy merchant Robert Watts gave most of The Rose Hill Estate, east of the village, to a Roman Catholic order, The Society of Jesus.

The cast includes a drug dealer and counterfeit document manufacturer from Westchester County ( Mikie C ), a gang member from Jersey City ( Jerome Watts ), an arsonist and bomb builder from Bridgeport ( Jon Shipiro ), the son of a Mafia informant ( Carlo Gallo ), and a 17-year-old chop shop parts dealer and car thief from the Bronx ( Jesus Rodriguez ).

The version of the song currently published in the hymnal of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints uses the Phelps text — except for the first two lines, which reflect Watts ' original words.

Answers to Your Questions about the Historical Jesus, edited with Richard Watts, 1996, ISBN 0-664-25842-5

* Chris Gill and Dave Watts, Where to Ski and Snowboard 2007, ISBN 0-9536371-8-2.

* Andrew Watts with Peter Hayward on harpsichord-" Where ' er You Walk " ( from Semele ) ( Composed by George Frideric Handel )

These included Paul Bley, Ed Curran, Bill Dixon, Marc Levin, Charles Moffett, Perry Robinson, Joseph Scianni, Archie Shepp, Sun Ra, Marzette Watts, and Valdo Williams.

* With Each Clouded Peak by Friederike Mayröcker ( with Harriett Watts ), Los Angeles, CA: Sun & Moon Press, 1998

He writes, " The use of hunab ku + suffix + ' god ' for the singularity of God is linguistically transparent to the oneness of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit and occurs widely in the missionary writings.

* 1523-Martin Luther writes a missionary hymn based on Psalm 67, May God Bestow on Us His Grace.

* 1792-William Carey writes An Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to use means for the conversion of the heathen and forms the Baptist Missionary Society to support him in establishing missionary work in India

* 1819-John Scudder, Sr., missionary physician, joins the American Ceylon Mission ; Wesleyan Methodists start work in Madras, India ; Reginald Heber writes words to missionary classic " From Greenland's Icy Mountains "

* 1830-Church of Scotland missionary Alexander Duff arrives in Kolkata ( formerly Calcutta ); William Swan, missionary to Siberia, writes Letters on Missions, the first Protestant comprehensive treatment of the theory and practice of missions ; Baptism of Taufa ' ahau Tupou, King of Tonga, by a western missionary ; arrival of John Williams of the London Missionary Society in Samoa, landing in Sapapali ' i on Savai ' i island

* 1890-Central American Mission founded by C. I. Scofield, editor of the Scofield Reference Bible ; Methodist Charles Gabriel writes missionary song " Send the Light "; John Livingston Nevius of China visits Korea to outline his strategy for missions: 1 ) Each believer should be a productive member of society and active in sharing his faith ; 2 ) The church in Korea should be distinctly Korean and free of foreign control ; 3 ) The leaders of the Korean church will be selected and trained from its members ; 4 ) Church buildings will be built by Koreans with their own resources

* 1925-E. Stanley Jones, Methodist missionary to India, writes The Christ of the Indian Road

Elst writes for example that " when Hindus complain of factual problems such as missionary subversion or Muslim terrorism, it is always convenient to portray this spontaneous and truthful perception as an artefact of " RSS propaganda ".

The New York Times review of the novel named Rand " a writer of great power " who writes " brilliantly, beautifully and bitterly ," and it stated that she had " written a hymn in praise of the individual ... you will not be able to read this masterful book without thinking through some of the basic concepts of our time.

; 1878: Galician poet Naphtali Herz Imber writes a poem Tikvatenu ( Our Hope ), later adopted as the Zionist hymn Hatikvah.

Alternatively, John M. Merriman writes that the hymn " began as a martial song to inspire soldiers against the Ottoman forces " during the Ottoman wars in Europe.

Later, there is a reference in Pliny who writes to the emperor Trajan ( 61 – 113 ) asking for advice about how to prosecute the Christians in Bithynia, and describing their practice of gathering before sunrise and repeating antiphonally ' a hymn to Christ, as to God '.

Hopiks writes: there is a passage like the great Ka hymn of the Rig Veda, ' whom as god shall one worship?