The Song Forever New: Lent and Easter with Charles Wesley
"Without the Wesleys, we'd still be singing metrical psalms as the primary music of our worship. Truly, it was the Wesleys and their zeal for evangelism that changed the entire flavor of our music in church. We went from a dry, Puritan-influenced, one-note-to-a-syllable approach and a concern that we not look too "enthusiastic" to music of desire, hymns that touched the heart, and called for conversion." --The Rev. S. Elizabeth Searle, Rector, Christ Church, Ridgewood