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Title: Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion

Author: Various

Editor: Samuel Longfellow
Samuel Johnson

Release Date: July 15, 2010 [EBook #33180]

Language: English

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A BOOK
OF
HYMNS
FOR
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE DEVOTION.

FIFTEENTH EDITION.

BOSTON:
TICKNOR AND FIELDS.
M DCCC LXVI.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1848,
BY WM. D. TICKNOR & COMPANY,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.

PREFACE.

Among the Hymns in the following collection will be found many which are
not of the commonly recognized metres. Some of these are already set to
music of their own. Others can readily be adapted by the choir-leader to
the simple chants which are now generally found in our collections of
Sacred Music.

An asterisk prefixed to the author's name indicates that some change has
been made in the hymn by the present compilers.

The titles of the Supplementary Hymns in the present edition have been
introduced _within_ the original table of contents, instead of forming a
separate series at the end.

Boston, April 22, 1848.

INDEX OF FIRST LINES.

Hymn.
According to Thy gracious word, 139
Acquaint thee, O spirit, acquaint thee with God, 199
Affliction's faded form draws nigh, 329
Ages, ages have departed, 43