Gospel Songs

The question of Copyrights has been carefully considered.  Only those songs and hymns written by authors who have departed to be with Christ at least 70 years ago, as well as songs and hymns which were first published at least 75 years ago, in the 1932 edition of "Hymns and Spiritual Songs for the Little Flock", have been published on this web site.  Should any rights have been inadvertently infringed, the publisher would appreciate this being brought to his attention so that the matter can be rectified.

John Nelson Darby writes thus about hymns which suit the gospel:

• "Abstractedly you are making people sing as having certain feelings, and then preaching to them because they have not.  But in actual Christendom things are not so sharply defined, and there are hidden souls and hidden wants which the hymn may give expression to, and set a soul free or make it apprehend God's love sometimes more effectually than the sermon; still there is very great danger of widespread delusion and loose apprehension of sin and grace, and the difficulty is very real.  You may often find the loudest singers where the conscience is the least reached." [From the Preface to "Hymns and Spiritual Songs for the Little Flock", 1881 edition.]

• "As to conversions in singing, there is nothing at all unscriptural.  If the truth is in the hymn, spoken of with divine affections, or souls' affections expressed respecting a truth already outwardly admitted, it is quite within the ways and operation of the Spirit of God to act on the soul in a quickening way by it, not without truth, but by truth so addressed to the soul.  I do not say that the work will be there as deep, or the foundation so solidly laid at the moment for after exercises, as if it was the direct application of the word by the Holy Ghost to the conscience, but the heart receives Christ convincingly and livingly, so as to love.  I have ever said that the smallest atom of Christ suffices for the Holy Ghost to quicken by, if it be really Him.  No doubt a profound conviction of sin by the word casts off a mass of imaginings of the flesh by a deeper inward work, which such a conversion leaves undiscovered; but if God works, He will do His own work, and bring it to a good issue." [From "Letters of J. N. D.", volume 1, page 295. - Nismes, Belgium - April, 1860.]

Here is a sample of the gospel songs which are published on this web site:

Gospel Songs