Book Description

The Hymnbook heretofore in use among us has been thought by many to be defective, partly on account of the mutilated state of many of the hymns, and partly because of its being divided into two books. To remedy these inconveniences, measures have been adopted to prepare a revised edition of our Hymnbook, such a one as should exclude the defects and retain the excellences of the one heretofore published. This revised edition we now present to you. The greater part of the hymns contained in the former selection are retained in this, and several from Wesley's and Coke's collections, not before published in this country, are added. - To the members and friends of the Methodist Episcopal Church / Elijah Hedding, Beverly Waugh, Thomas A. Morris, Leonidas L. Hamline, Edmund S. Janes.