The Gospel Magazine

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The Gospel Magazine is a Calvinist, evangelical magazine from the United Kingdom, and is one of the longest running of such periodicals, having been founded in 1766. Most of the editors have been Anglicans. It is currently published bi-monthly.

A number of well-known hymns, including Augustus Montague Toplady's Rock of Ages first appeared in the Gospel Magazine.

The Gospel Magazine Trust are currently working to get all of their extant copies - going back 240 years - digitized and uploaded onto their website. These will be available to read here.


[edit] List of editors

  • John Gurney (1766-1774) (died 1815)
  • William Mason (1774-1775 & 1776) (born 1719, died 1791)
  • Augustus Montague Toplady (December 1775-June 1776)
  • Erasmus Middleton (1776-1805) (born 1739, died 1805)

Some time between 1783 and 1796 the Gospel Magazine was suspended for some time and a magazine called the Spiritual Magazine was produced

  • Walter Row (1796-1838) (personal friend of Toplady)
  • Bagnall Baker (1839-1840) (a High Anglican - but not an Anglo-Catholic)
  • David Alfred Doudney (June 1840-1893)(died 1893)
  • George Cowell (1893-1894)
  • James Ormiston (1895-1916) (rector of St Mary le Port Church, Bristol)
  • Thomas Houghton (1916-1951)
  • Herbert M Carson (1951-1964)
  • William Dodgson Sykes (1964-1975)
  • John Tallach (1976-1981)
  • Maurice Handford
  • Gordon Hill
  • Edward Malcolm (as at 2005)

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