I recently started reading through Our Own Hymnbook, the hymnal compiled by Charles Spurgeon for use in the Metropolitan Tabernacle. Despite my Reformed Baptist convictions and love of hymnody, I had overlooked what has since become one of my favorite hymnals. Yet as I read, I found myself asking, Do our churches still need new hymns?
The people of God are a people who sing. Our Own Hymnbook contains 1,130 hymns. If a congregation were to sing eight to ten songs a week, it could sing through the book for more than two years without ever repeating a song. And that would be without singing the divinely inspired Psalms or anything written since 1868.
Considering this rich treasury passed down to us, do we need more songs?
Hymns from Our History
