"This book is a revelation and illumination of the life of a great figure. . . . Readers who think they know gospel hymns should definitely read it, as well as any history buffs of the Victorian Era and Gilded Age in America." —Esther R. Crookshank, professor of church music, SBTS
A vivid and detailed new biography of one of the nineteenth century's most influential church musicians, colleague of famed evangelist Dwight L. Moody, whose songbooks became ubiquitous among American and British Christians.