When languor and disease invade. Toplady 395 Why should the children of a King. Watts 1 ...Anon 139 With joy we meditate the grace.... Watts 104 Ye faithful souls, who Jesus kno. C. Fesley 498 Zion stands with hills surrounded....Kelly 146 PREFACE. SUNDAY-SCHOOLS are the acknowledged nurseries of the Church of Christ. In them the children of the Church should be taught the songs of Zion. Hitherto both Sunday-schools and churches have been embarrassed for lack of a Hymn-Book which they might use in common. Sunday-school Hymn-Books have lacked variety, and church Hymn-Books have been deficient in hymns adapted to Sunday-schools. A two-fold expenditure, and a wide dissimilarity between the Hymn-Books of Sunday-schools and those of the congregations in which they worshipped, were among the results of using both classes of books. The desideratum was a church Hymn-Book that should embrace a sufficient number of children's hymns for Sunday-school purposes, and a Sunday-school Hymn-Book that might be purchased either bound with the standard HymnBook of the Church, or separately in a cheap form. The following collection of hymns is designed to secure both these objects. Published as a Supplement to the Chu ch Hymn-Book, it renders that volume compiete, and more perfect in its adaptation to the use of Sunday-schools than any other extant. Published separately, it supplies, at the least possible expense, nearly all the choice hymns of our language, that are peculiarly suited to the capacities of the young and the wants of Sunday-schools. In either |