In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.

Electrotyped by SMITH & MCDOUGAL, 82 & 84 Beekman St., N. Y.

PREFACE.

ok is meant to accompany a volume size bearing the same name, containhymns set to appropriate music, in order of arrangement here employed. et of its issue is merely to meet the ce of those who desire a more por

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mpiler has designed the "Songs for -uary" for use not only in the House Out in the Social Meetings of Chris

even in the Family; to be a book, nd His people shall honor it so far, in the Home as well as in the Church; ildren with their parents shall love Hy; and by which all shall be aided ght to take part more joyfully in the of the Redeemer.

ds only to be observed, that, although metry and convenience no separation

as to arrangement or numbering has been adopted, to distinguish between Hymns and what are technically called Psalms, yet the best versions of these latter have been carefully and lovingly sought from every source, so that each of the old songs of inspired authors might, if possible, have its representative here. An additional Index of Texts of Scripture will be found in the larger volume.

CHAS. S. ROBINSON.

BROOKLYN, N. Y., March 1, 1865.