“LIGHTS IN DARK PLACES” Notwithstanding the labours of Whitfield, Wesley and their colleagues, religion was still at a low ebb in England (this in the latter half of the Eighteenth Century). “The luxury, riot, debauchery, lust and madness of the age,” said a faithful preacher of the day, “could not be painted in colours equal …
Author: T. Wright
PSALMS AND HYMNS AND SPIRITUAL SONGS The 18th century is to English hymnology what the Augustan age is to Latin literature. By the side of such names as Watts, Hart, Toplady, Charles Wesley, Doddridge, Cowper and Newton, the names of all hymn-writers, previous or subsequent, look pale indeed. The 19th century did not produce a …