When you hear these huge hymns, you can survive any loss. You can take any amount of blows. You can make the most difficult decisions. You can march forward in your life against all adversity. It was in Edge that I found a marching music, found those huge soul-stirring melodies of Charles Wesley, Isaac Watts, and John Newton, and when I was a young man, they were exactly what I was looking for. My soul had a desperate need to be stirred.