The Gospel Magazine

Magazine

*The Gospel Magazine*
May–June 2014 cover showing Blagdon Parish Church
Editor	Edward J. Malcolm
Categories	Religious, Calvinist, evangelical Christian
Frequency	bi-monthly
Publisher	Gospel Magazine Trust
Founded	1766
Country	UK
Language	en

The Gospel Magazine is a Calvinist, evangelical Christian 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 now published bi-monthly.

A number of well-known hymns, including Augustus Montague Toplady's Rock of Ages, first appeared in the Gospel Magazine. Toplady, sponsored by Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, used the magazine to attack John Wesley.^[1] Other contributors included John Newton, 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).^[2]

The Gospel Magazine Trust is currently working to scan their extant copies—going back 240 years—and upload them onto the website.^[3]

List of editors

1766–1774: Joseph Gurney (died 1815)
1774–1775 & 1776: William Mason (1719–1791)
December 1775–June 1776: Augustus Montague Toplady
1776–1805: Erasmus Middleton (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.^[4]

1796–1838: Walter Row, a personal friend of Toplady
1839–1840: Bagnall Baker, a High Anglican (but not Anglo-Catholic)
June 1840–1893: David Alfred Doudney^[5] (1811–1893)
1893–1894: George Cowell
1895–1916: James Ormiston, rector of St Mary le Port Church, Bristol
1916–1951: Thomas Houghton
1951–1964: William Dodgson Sykes
1964–1975: Herbert M. Carson (died 2004)
1976–1981: John Tallach, then Free Presbyterian minister in Kinlochbervie, later Church of Scotland minister in Cromarty until 2011^[6]
1981–2000: Maurice Handford
2000–2013: Edward Malcolm
2014–present: Edward J. Malcolm

References

^ Boyd Stanley Schlenther, ‘Hastings , Selina, countess of Huntingdon (1707–1791)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008, accessed 4 Jan 2008
^ ODNB
^ "Read a Past Publication". The Gospel Magazine. Retrieved 6 June 2023.
^ John Gadsby (1870). Memoirs of the Principal Hymn-writers: & Compilers of the 17th, 18th, & 19th Centuries. J. Gadsby. p. 62. Retrieved 15 September 2013.
^ Power, Thomas P. (2014). Ministers and Mines: Religious Conflict in an Irish Mining Community, 1847–1858. iUniverse. pp. 4–7. ISBN 9781491726044.
^ "Cromarty Live | Farewell to John and Isobel | 23 November 2010".

External links

Gospel Magazine official website
Gospel Magazine page on GraceNet
David Alfred Doudney and the Gospel Magazine at the Wayback Machine (archived March 11, 2007). The Copper Coast. Page mentions several other editors.