A COLLECTION OF HYMN S, FOR THE USE OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, PRINCIPALLY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE REV. JOHN WESLEY, A. M. REVISED AND CORRECTED. WITH A SUPPLEMENT. "I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live; I will sing New-York: PUBLISHED BY LANE & SCOTT, JOSEPH LONGKING, PRINTER. 1849. Entered according to the act of Congress, in the year 1836, by B. Waugh and T. Mason, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New-York. THE UNIVERSITY TO THE MEMBERS AND FRIENDS OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. 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. The principal improvements which have been mado, consist in restoring those which had been altered, as is believed for the worse, to their original state, as they came from the poetical pen of the Wesleys; for the following hymns were, except a few which have been taken from other authors, composed by the Rev. John and 854711 |