Church Songs

Church Songs is an 1884 collection of hymns and songs composed and compiled for Church of England and Episcopal Church usage by Sabine Baring-Gould, in collaboration with Henry Fleetwood Sheppard.^[1] Church Songs was intended to provide a church substitute for the phenomenally successful 1877 Moody-Sankey hymn book.^[2] At the time Baring-Gould was parish priest at Lew Trenchard, Devonshire. The book was published by Skeffington in England and in New York by James Pott and Co., also in 1884.

References

1. Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain ed. Robert Evans, Maggie Humphreys 1441137963 1997 - Page 20 "In 1884 he published a collection Church Songs, in collaboration with Revd. Henry Fleetwood Sheppard. 159 of his books were published, and he is said to have more catalogue entries in the British Museum than any of his contemporaries."
2. Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art 1884 "S. Baring-Gould and the Rev. H. Fleetwood Sheppard for Church of England purposes. “The tendency of these songs,” says Mr. Baring-Gould in his preface to Church Songs (W. Skeffington & Sons), “is not only to irreverence and profanity, but also to encourage heretical"..."