Meredith’s fa­ther played the vi­o­lin, and his mo­ther sang in the church choir. By age 10, Isaac was tak­ing or­gan les­sons. By age 12, he was sing­ing al­to in the choir at the Oak Street Meth­od­ist Church in Nor­ris­town. At 13, he was con­vert­ed by the per­so­nal in­vi­ta­tion of his bro­ther. For a num­ber of years, he sang to pri­son­ers in the coun­ty jail each Sun­day morn­ing. In the sum­mer of 1891, while va­ca­tion­ing in Ocean Grove, New Jer­sey, a Dr. Mun­hall in­vit­ed him to sing in evan­gel­is­tic meet­ings. Short­ly ther­ea­fter, he en­tered evan­gel­ism him­self and be­gan writ­ing Gos­pel songs. In 1893, Mer­e­dith and Grant Tul­lar found­ed the Tul­lar-Mer­e­dith mu­sic pub­lish­ing house. Mer­e­dith him­self com­posed over 1,000 songs. Dur­ing World War I, he served in France with the Young Men Christ­ian’s As­so­ci­a­tion. Af­ter the war, in ad­di­tion to his mu­sic bu­si­ness, he served as mu­sic di­rect­or for (at var­i­ous times) the Bushw­ick Av­e­nue Meth­od­ist Church, Brook­lyn, New York; and the Ped­die Me­mor­i­al Bap­tist Church and Cen­ten­a­ry Meth­od­ist Church, New­ark, New Jer­sey. His works in­clude:

• The Bi­ble School Hymn­al, with Grant Tul­lar (New York: Tull­ar-Mer­e­dith Co., 1907)

Sources

Music

1. All Hail to the Prince of Life
2. All in the Silent Night
3. Angels Adore Him
4. Beautiful Words of Jesus
5. Bells of Hope, The
6. Building, Dai­ly Build­ing
7. Come with the Wise Men
8. Father, Make Us Lov­ing
9. First Christ­mas Song, The
10. Garden of Childhood
11. Hail, Mighty Vic­tor
12. If Ye Then with Christ Be Risen (1926)
13. Let Us Sing for Joy
14. Move For­ward
15. O Ho­ly Bi­ble
16. Our Message
17. Precious Friend, The
    • Angels’ Sweet Refrain, The
18. Seal Us, O Ho­ly Spirit
19. Sealed Was the Tomb
20. Shine On, Bethlehem’s Star
21. Stowell
22. Tell It Out
23. Wake, Sweet­est Strain
24. Waking Out of Silence
25. We Will Fol­low Je­sus
26. Wonderful, Counselor!