REVISED BY THE COMMITTEE OF PUBLICATION OF PHILADELPHIA: HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY MAR 12 1937 Enterer according to act of Congress, in the year 1845, by Herman Cope, Treasurer, in trust for the American Sunday-school Union, in the clerk office of the District Court of the Eastern Distric of Pennsylvania. PREFACE. THE inquiry has often been made, why a collection of hymns is not published sufficiently extensive to supply the wants of Sunday-schools. It is said, that the little Hymn Book in common use was very well at the commencement of the Sunday school system, but since monthly concerts, anniversaries, missionary meetings, teachers' prayer meetings, &c., &c., have be some so common, a larger volume is called for, and a more extensive variety is indispensable. The present compilation will be found to contain the best part of the Sunday |