The other day I was driving my daughter to another city and she was singing various worship songs, then this old country gospel song came into my mind: Whispering hope. I tried to sing it, but had forgotten the words. She said she had never heard the song before, so I decided to look for it under the name of Jim Reeves and share it with her. I ended up getting carried away searching, and found this song sung by so many people around the world. I have tried to list them in alphabetical order.

1. Andy Griffith
2. Anita Kerr Singers
3. Anne Murray
4. Ben Shima
5. Berean Gospel Ministers Family
6. Bird Youmans
7. Blackwood Brothers
8. Bluegrass Martins
9. Byron Lee and the Dragonaires and Friends
10. Charley Pride
11. CheeSookWan – piano
12. Christian Edition
13. Christopher Tan – piano
14. Come on Gospel Quartet
15. Connie Smith and Nat Stuckey
16. Cristy Lane
17. Dana
18. Daniel O Donnell and Mary Duff
19. Dick van Altena
20. Firm Faith Zimbabwe
21. Gloria Gaither – talking
22. Hank Doell
23. Hank Snow
24. Hayley Westenra
25. Jennifer Pearson – piano
26. Jim Ed Brown
27. Jim Hendricks – music
28. Jim Reeves – Country Gospel Song – Whispering Hope
29. Jim Roberts and Norma Zimmer
30. Jo Stafford and Gordon McCrae
31. Johnny Carroll – trumpet
32. Jule Crandall
33. Julie Andrews and Dinah Shore
34. Kilby Brothers – music
35. Larry Ford
36. Mantovani Orchestra
37. Mary Go
38. Mother Maybelle and the Carter sisters
39. ODONGO’S Family Choir
40. Olive Klein and Elsie Baker (1914)
41. O.M.
42. Pat Boone
43. Phil Coulter – music
44. Presentation School Choir
45. Rosemary Clooney and John Raitt
46. Singing Men Quartet
47. Skeeter Davis
48. Slim Whitman
49. Tjeerd Venema – instrumental
50. TUKSDA Church Choir
51. Virginia Lee
52. Willie Nelson

Of all these singer, the only one I have met is Pat Boone, and he is a very nice guy. Beloved, don’t lose hope. God can always make a way for you, no matter what your circumstances are. Joseph was once in prison, but God elevated him to a high position. Daniel was in a lion`s den, three guys in a fire, Jeremiah in a muddy cistern, Peter in prison, Paul and Silas in prison, etc. Jesus said that with God all things are possible. Job got healed and his riches restored!

On some other videos it says the words and music were created by Alice Hawthorne, so that leaves a bit of mystery. Wait, I saw this afterwards: Whispering Hope was written by Septimus Winner in 1868 using the pseudonym Alice Hawthorne. Okay, that solves that mystery. Apparently he used lots of different names for his songs.