![]() ![]() Our hymnal includes almost all the good tunes for hymns. ![]() After twenty or thirty years, however, no one is singing the new tunes people prefer the traditional tunes. Regardless of where and how Toplady got his inspiration, the hymn has been a blessing in past generations and will continue to be a blessing to Christians in generations to come.Īfter World War II there was a desire in the United States for new things consequently, many new tunes were written for hymns. Nevertheless God used even what is negative for His good will and purpose. This is ironic, because he had a combative relationship with John Wesley. Benson argues that Toplady was most likely inspired to write the hymn after reading the preface of John and Charles Wesley‘s Hymns on the Lord’s Supper (1745) which contains a prayer voicing many of the themes and words that are also found in the hymn. However the story is probably apocryphal-(doubtful of authenticity but widely circulated as true). The particular rock is in Burrington Combe gorge in North Somerset, England, and it has a plaque on it with its claim to fame. There is a common story of the hymn being inspired by (and even written from within) a rock cleft that Toplady once took refuge in during a storm. The full version of the hymn was printed the following year in Toplady’s book Psalms and Hymns for Public and Private Worship. ”Īs for the hymn, the first stanza appeared in public in 1775 in a periodical called the Gospel Magazine (a periodical which still is in print today). When Louis Benson wrote about the hymn in 1923, he claimed it “is to-day in more church hymnals than is in any other English hymn. ![]() Augustus Toplady wrote a number of hymns in his life, but “Rock of Ages” is by far the most famous.
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