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HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY

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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by HENRY HOYT,

la the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts

INTRODUCTION.

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THE demand for new hymn-books is not the expression of fickleness, but rather of a want increasingly felt, a want that no author or compiler has yet fully satisfied. Indeed, a perfect hymn-book, or one perfectly adapted to all the wants of man seeking communion with God, is a blessing, as yet, but partially realized.

We rather hail with satisfaction and hope each new attempt. whether to make a better book than exists, or a book better adapted than any other to meet some specific want. We may look upon them all as the Church creeping in her infancy, and striving to attain the perfect gait of maturity.

This volume presents no claims to perfect excellence. It is but one of many, asking to be serviceable to those to whom it may be adapted. It will be recognized as a condensed and sifted tune-book, containing only the best airs of the larger volumes, together with a selection of the choicest hymns for family and social worship.

E. N. K.

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