''Church Songs'' is an 1884 collection of hymns and songs composed and compiled for Church of England and Episcopal Church usage by Sabine Baring-Gould, in collaboration with

Henry Fleetwood Sheppard Henry Fleetwood Sheppard ( London, 5 February 1824 — November 1901) was an English clergyman who collaborated on the collection ''Church Songs'' (1884) with Sabine Baring-Gould. Born in London on 5 February 1824, Sheppard graduated from Cambri ...

. Church Songs was intended to provide a church substitute for the phenomenally successful 1877

Moody-Sankey hymn book ''Sacred Songs and Solos'' is a hymn collection compiled by Ira David Sankey, who partnered Dwight Lyman Moody in a series of evangelical crusades from 1870 until Moody's death in 1898. The collection first appeared in 1873, and has subsequ ...

.Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art 1884 "S. Baring-Gould and the Rev. H. Fleetwood Sheppard for Church of England purposes. “The tendency of these songs,” says Mr. Baring-Gould in his preface to Church Songs (W. Skeffington & Sons), “is not only to irreverence and profanity, but also to encourage heretical"..." At the time Baring-Gould was parish priest at

Lew Trenchard Lewtrenchard is a village and civil parish in the West Devon district, in the county of Devon, England. Most of the larger village of Lewdown is in the parish. In the Domesday Book of 1086, a manor of Lew is recorded in this area and two rivers h ...

, Devonshire. The book was published by Skeffington in England and in New York by James Pott and Co., also in 1884.

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