June 3 Featured Hymn: <strong>"Jesus Shall Reign Where'er the Sun"</strong>

"Jesus Shall Reign Where'er the Sun" by Isaac Watts (1674-1748)

Isaac Watts was quite the revolutionary. While his contemporaries stuck within the boundaries of hymnody and Scripture paraphrasing, Watts jumped outside of the box and used the Bible as a launching point for his hymn texts – the foundation upon which he placed his own thoughts. While we might think this to be fairly normal, it was a radical move back in Watts’ day.

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