Michael Baughen, on his attempt to find a publisher for Youth Praise, said: ‘I trekked around evangelical publishers. They all told me it would be a failure, that there was no demand for such a book, that no song-book had sold more than 5,000 copies. Having lunch with Timothy Dudley-Smith one day (then assistant secretary of CPAS) he said: ‘We will publish it’. It sold out on the first night. The demand was like a flood. The printer could not keep pace.’