Australia's choral tradition grew initially through church music; printed on tiny 12x7cm pages, books from the early 1800s provide a glimpse at the hymns church choirs and congregations once sang.

“This Little Light of Mine,” which sprang from the slavery days of the South and swelled in popularity during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, is one of 15 new hymns added to the church ...

Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast, Save in the death of Christ my God! All the vain things that charm me most, I sacrifice them to His blood. My sin, of the bliss of this glorious thought My sin, ...