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This collection of hymns and sacred songs has been gathered from various hymnals and songbooks dating from the mid-eighteen hundreds to the mid-nineteen hundreds, the period known as the Philadelphian age.
These are the songs that were sung by the millions during the days of the great revivals of D.L. Moody and Ira Sankey. Tens of thousands who walked Billy Sunday's sawdust trail did so to the pleas of salvation in the hymns represented here.
These are the hymns that were sung at the old-fashioned camp meetings of days gone by.
Represented here are the "forgotten" works of some of the greatest hymn writers the cause of Christ has ever known: Frances (Fanny) Jane Crosby, Ira Sankey, James McGranahan, Charles H. Gabriel, George C. Stebbins, Philip P. Bliss, and many others.
Regrettably, the vast majority of these songs will not be found in the hymnals of today. Those that are, in many cases, have had their words altered to reflect the watered-down "gospel" message of these last days.
God-honoring, Christ-centered, Heaven-minded, Soul-conscious hymns like these are not being written today. Therefore, we owe those who wrote them a great debt of gratitude. May their memory and that of the lives that were changed and the souls that were saved through their words and music, live on, through this webpage.
May these hymns stir your soul, bring a tear to your eye, bring you to your knees, put you closer to heaven and nearer to our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Every attempt has been made to give the proper credit to the authors of these hymns and the sources from which they were obtained.
Revival and Camp Meeting Songs
I'm Laying My Treasure Up There
The Heart That Was Broken For Me
Where the Gates Swing Outward Never
Bells at Evening and Other Verses by Fanny J. Crosby, Copyright, 1897 by The Biglow & Main Co., New York, New York.
Class, Choir and Congregation, Copyright, 1888 by The A.J. Showalter Company, Dalton, Georgia.
Favorite Songs and Hymns, A Complete Church Hymnal, Copyright, 1939 by Stamps-Baxter Music & Printing Co., Inc., Chattanooga, Tennessee.
New Gems of Songs, A Choice Collection of Hymns and Sacred Songs, Pickering & Inglis, Ltd., London, England.
Olney Hymns by William Cowper, edited by William Willis, Second Edition, Published for the Cowper Society by Farncombe & Son Printers, Southbridge Road, Croydon, 1911.
Sacred Songs No. 1, by Ira D. Sankey, James McGranahan and George C. Stebbins, Copyright, 1896 by The Biglow & Main Co., New York, New York.
Songs Forever, Copyright, 1944 by Tennessee Music & Printing Co., Cleveland, Tennessee.