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O NE biographer of Dr. Isaac Watts asserts that he has more monuments in stone erected to biographies of his life. The truth is that he lived so secluded and unevent ful a life that there is little to record of actual incident, though his conver sion would, no doubt, have rewarded the diligence of a Boswell. Dr. Watts, however, needs neither stone memorials nor written biogra phies to keep his name green in the memory of mankind. He is known and will continue to be known by his mag nificent hymns. If his “Divine and Moral Songs” for children have gone out of fashion among the young, if his metrical psalms are now almost en tirely neglected, he is still remem bered with much gratitude and respect for many famous hymns, several of which have become world-wide fa vorites. Watts was a poet of experience. He wove into his hymns the deepest les sons of his life. His ascription of praise to Christ as, “the Comfort of my nights,” for instance, was not merely a poetic expression. He knew little of regular sleep for many years, except that which he could obtain by drugs, and the presence of the Lord in "the night watches” was real to him. The sickly little doctor did not travel extensively. Southampton, Lon don and Tunbridge Wells were the only places he knew intimately. Nevertheless, he was a student of na ture, and the following stanza proves that he not only appreciated God’s handiwork, but that he could put his thoughts into exquisite verse: “The meanest pin in nature’s frame Marks out some letter of Thy name. Where sense can reach, or fancy rove, From hill to hill, from field to grove. Across the waves, around the sky, There’s not a spot, or deep, or high, Where the Creator has not trod, And left the footstep of a God.” OCTOBER, 1946
Watts was also the poet of the Atonement. For this reason his verses have been criticized by those who re ject salvation through faith in the blood of Jesus. Our present day mod ernists would hold up their hands in horror if asked to sing such a verse as: “Blood hath a voice to pierce the skies, Revenge! the blood of Abel cries; But the dear stream, when Christ was slain, Speaks peace as loud, from every vein.” Verses from Watts’ hymns have been murmured on innumerable deathbeds, and have shone out as memorial lines on countless tombstones. When the great orator, Daniel Webster, lay dying, he repeated again and again the verse: “Show pity, Lord; Oh, Lord, forgive, Let a repenting rebel live; Are not Thy mercies large and free: May not a sinner trust in Thee?” William Carey, the pioneer of world wide missions, instructed that his tombstone should register the confes sion: "A guilty, weak, and helpless worm, On Thy kind arms I fall.” A venerable minister of eighty- eight years was dying, and his daugh ter read to him: “Jesus can make a dying bed As soft as downy pillows are, While on His breast I lean my head, And breathe my life out sweetly there.” The old man listened, turned his head upon his pillow, murmuring the words, “my head,” and so went to be with his Lord. The poetry of these words may be defective, but its ten derness has helped many a soul across the river of death. The national hymn of the Puritans, employed on the American Thanks giving Day, was composed by Dr. Watts. Here are two stanzas: “Let children hear the mighty deeds Which God performed of old, Which in our younger years we saw And which our fathers told.
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