The ''Gospel Magazine'' is a
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,
evangelical
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Christian magazine from the
United Kingdom
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, and is one of the longest running of such periodicals, having been founded in 1766. Most of the editors have been
Anglicans
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. It is currently published bi-monthly.
A number of well-known hymns, including
Augustus Montague Toplady's ''
Rock of Ages Rock of Ages may refer to:
Films
* ''Rock of Ages'' (1918 film), a British silent film by Bertram Phillips
* ''Rock of Ages'' (2012 film), a film adaptation of the jukebox musical (see below)
Music
* ''Rock of Ages'' (musical), a 2006 rock ...
'', first appeared in the ''Gospel Magazine''. Toplady, sponsored by
Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon
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, used the magazine to attack
John Wesley. Other contributors included
John Newton
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, the organist
William Shrubsole (1760–1806), the hymn writer
Daniel Turner (1710–98) and (at a later date) the particular Baptist minister
John Andrew Jones (1779–1868).
The Gospel Magazine Trust is currently working to scan their extant copies—going back 240 years—and upload them onto the website.
List of editors
* 1766–74:
Joseph Gurney (died 1815)
* 1774–75 & 1776:
William Mason (1719–91)
* December 1775–June 1776:
Augustus Montague Toplady
* 1776–1805:
Erasmus Middleton
Erasmus Middleton (1739–1805) was an English clergyman, author and editor.
Early life
He was the son of Erasmus Middleton of Horncastle, Lincolnshire. At age 22 he underwent a religion conversion among Wesleyan Methodists in Horncastle. He wa ...
(1739–1805)
Some time between 1783 and 1796 the Gospel Magazine was suspended for a period, and a magazine called the ''New Spiritual Magazine'' was produced.
* 1796–1838: Walter Row, a personal friend of Toplady
* 1839–40: Bagnall Baker, a High Anglican (but not
Anglo-Catholic
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)
* June 1840–93:
David Alfred Doudney (1811–93)
* 1893–94: George Cowell
* 1895–1916: James Ormiston, rector of
St Mary le Port Church, Bristol
* 1916–51:
Thomas Houghton
* 1951–64:
William Dodgson Sykes
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* 1964–75: Herbert M. Carson (died 2004)
* 1976–81: John Tallach, then
Free Presbyterian minister in
Kinlochbervie
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, later
Church of Scotland
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minister in
Cromarty
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until 2011
* 1981–2000: Maurice Handford
* 2000–13 :
Edward Malcolm
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In 2019 the church h ...
* 2014– : Edward J. Malcolm
References
External links
Gospel Magazine official websiteGospel Magazine page on GraceNet* . ''The Copper Coast''. Page mentions several other editors.
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