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FELLOW OF CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, OXFORD,
AND CURATE OF WITLEY.

LONDON:

JOHN W. PARKER, WEST STRAND.

M.DCCC.XXXVII.

PUBLIC LIBRARY 200780

ACTOR. LENOX AND

TILBEN FOUNDATIONS. 1904

PREFACE.

ON putting forth these Hymns to the world, I find a few words are necessary to explain the nature of the compilation, and the views I had in forming it. Some time ago, feeling the want of a collection of Christian Hymns, as an accompaniment to (not a substitute for) the Psalms of David in the Service of the Church, I looked around to those already published, to select one from among them, thinking that of course there could not possibly be any occasion to add another to the already too numerous list of Hymn-compilers. But in the first place, there was the difficulty of fixing a choice amidst the immense multitude of rival collections, each claiming the preference, there being almost as many different hymn-books as there are churches wherein a reformation of Psalmody has been effected. And then there was the recollection that, from first to last, they are all of them unauthorized; neither are they sanctioned by proper Episcopal authority, nor is their introduction into our churches legalized by statute or order in council, so that a collection allowed by one diocesan might be forbidden by another; and if a clergyman attempted to introduce

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