PREFACE.

THE Editors of this Collection have endeavoured to include in one volume, and under a single arrangement, all that is essential to a HymnBook for the Sanctuary, the Closet, the Domestic Circle, and the Social Gathering.

The co-operation of many valued friends in the protracted labour of selection and revision has been of great service. Especially are the Compilers indebted to Authors who have most readily and generously permitted their compositions to be inserted, or who have furnished. original Hymns: acknowledgments are here due to the Rev. Dr. Bonar, of Kelso, author of "Hymns of Faith and Hope;" to the Rev. T. Davis, of Leeds, author of "Devotional Verse for a Month;" to the Rev. T. T. Lynch, for Hymns from the "Rivulet," &c.; to Miss Catherine Winkworth, translator of "Lyra

Germanica;" to Miss Caroline Dent, with several others. By the equally kind permission of the executors of Mr. Montgomery and those of Mr. Conder, the book is enriched with a large number of Hymns by these departed poets.

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The labour has been on all sides a labour of love its results are now dedicated to the service of the churches and to the glory of God.

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THE PERFECTIONS OF GOD.

8.7.

Stand up and bless the Lord your God for ever and ever.
-Neh. 9. 5.

1 PRAISE to Thee, Thou great Creator,
Praise be Thine from every tongue;
Join, my soul, with every creature,
Join the universal song.

2 Father, source of all compassion,
Pure unbounded grace is Thine;
Hail, the God of our salvation,
Praise Him for His love divine.
3 For ten thousand blessings given,
For the hope of future joy;
Sound His praise through earth and heaven,
Sound Jehovah's praise on high.

4 Joyfully on earth adore Him,

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Till in heaven our song we raise ; There, enraptured, fall before Him, Lost in wonder, love, and praise.

L.M.

Great is our Lord, and of great power.-Ps. 147. 5.

PRAISE ye the Lord; tis good to raise
Our hearts and voices in His praise;

His nature and His works invite
To make this duty our delight.
2 The Lord builds up Jerusalem,
And gathers nations to His name :
His mercy melts the stubborn soul,
And makes the broken spirit whole.