What if Charles Wesley Had Written Joy to the World?

Charles Wesley doesn’t need anybody to stick up for him when it comes to Christmas songs: The man gave us Hark the Herald Angels Sing, after all. And if you add the Advent song Come Thou Long-Expected Jesus and a bunch of less famous but altogether worthy ones in the collection Hymns for the Nativity of our Lord, he’s got an impressive seasonal footprint. So we can ungrudgingly turn our attention from the great Charles Wesley and share the Christmas cheer with the also-great Isaac Wa