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Title: Hymns from the Morningland
Being Translations, Centos and Suggestions from the Service
Books of the Holy Eastern Church

Author: Various

Translator: John Brownlie

Release Date: July 21, 2009 [EBook #29480]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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HYMNS FROM THE MORNINGLAND

HYMNS
FROM THE MORNINGLAND

BEING
TRANSLATIONS, CENTOS
AND SUGGESTIONS
FROM THE SERVICE BOOKS OF
THE HOLY EASTERN CHURCH

WITH INTRODUCTION
BY
JOHN BROWNLIE, D.D.

_Author of_
"_Hymns and Hymn Writers of the Church Hymnary_"
"_Hymns of the Greek Church_," "_Hymns from the Greek Office Books_"
"_Hymns of the Holy Eastern Church_"
_&c., &c._

_(SIXTH SERIES)_

PAISLEY: ALEXANDER GARDNER
_Publisher by Appointment to the late Queen Victoria_
1911

LONDON:
SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, HAMILTON, KENT & CO., LMD.

PRINTED BY ALEXANDER GARDNER, PAISLEY.

PREFACE

This sixth series of hymns from the Greek Offices is sent forth in the
hope that some of the flowers that bloom in the gardens of the East, in
which our Lord prayed and His Apostles tilled, may serve to beautify the
homes of the faithful in Western lands. Cut flowers lose their beauty and
freshness soon, but not infrequently their perfume remains; and roots
transplanted do not always continue to put forth leaves and blossoms in
that richness which adorns them in their native soil; but i