t section of
the Church."--_Aberdeen Free Press_.

PREFATORY NOTE

After ten years this, the first of five series of hymns of the Greek
Church, is issued in cheap form in the hope that those who regard the
unity of Christian praise, and wish to realise it, and who seek its
enrichment from the Church of the Apostles, may be induced to give the
subject that consideration which it deserves, and which has been too long
neglected.

The past ten years have seen much activity in the department of Church
hymnody,--all sections of the Church have had their hymnals under
revision with varied results; but in this particular we are bound to feel
satisfaction that the praise literature of the Early and Mediaeval Church
has been more fully drawn upon than at any former period, and the Greek
Church no longer stands in the background. From this volume alone no
fewer than ten renderings have been utilised by hymnal compilers, and
they make together twenty appearances. This fact is mentioned to indicate
an appreciation of Greek hymnody which, it is hoped, may grow.

J. B.

FRATRES . CARISSIMOS .
HYMNOLOGOS .
AMICORUM . FELICIUM . AMANTISSIMOS .
PROSEQUOR .

A . D . V . ID . MAI .

GREEK INDEX

PAGE
{tes patroas doxes sou}--(Contakion), 23
{basileu ouranie, paraklete}, 24
{ten achranton eikona sou proskynoumen}, 25
{deute agalliasometha to kyrio}--(Stichera Idiomela), 26
{Christos gennatai}, 28
{ti soi prosenenkomen, Christe}, 30
{ho ouranos kai he ge semeron prophetikos
euphrainesthosan}--(Stichera Idiomela), 32
{doxa en hypsistois theo}, 33
{semeron ho Hades stenon boa}--(Stichera Idiomela), 35
{kai ten phloginen rhomphaian}--(Contakion), 37
{ho monogenes Hyios kai Logos tou theou}, 38
{kyrie, anabainontos sou en to stauro}, 39