The following hymns, arranged under their ap propriate heads, were submitted to our General Conference, approved by that body, and ordered for publication. In presenting this revised Hymnbook to you for your use, we humbly trust that we are putting into your hands one of the choicest selections of evangelical hymns, suitable for private devotion, as well as for family, social, and public worship, by which you will be much aided in the performance of these important parts of Divine service. We are the more delighted with this design as no personal advantage is concerned, but the public good alone. For after the necessary expenses of publication are discharged, we shall make it a noble charity, by applying the profits arising therefrom to religious and charitable purposes. No motive of a sinister nature has therefore influenced us in any degree to publish this excellent compilation. As the profits of the former editions have been scrupulously applied as above, so the same appropriation of the profits of the present shall be conscientiously observed. We must therefore earnestly entreat you, if you have any respect for the authority of the Conference, or of us, or any regard for the prosperity of the Church of which you are members and friends. to purchase no Hymnbooks but what are published by our own Agents, and signed with the names of your Bishops. And as we intend to 5 keep a constant supply, the complaint of our congregations, "that they cannot procure our Hymnbooks," will be stopped. We exhort you to sing with the spirit and with the understanding also; and thus may the high praises of God be set up from east to west, from north to south; and we shall be happily instrumental in leading the devotion of thousands and shall rejoice to join you in time and eternity We are, dear Brethren, Your faithful pastors in Christ, WILLIAM M'KENDREE ROBERT R. ROBERTS JOSHUA SOULE, ELIJAH HEDDING. NOTICE. In this improved edition of the Methodist Hymnbook, the tunes adapted to the hymns, and contained in the Methodist Harmonist, are named at the head of cach hymn, together with the page of the Harmonist at which the tune may be found. The page of the Harmonist is signified by the letter "p." following the name of the tune. CAUTION ALL persons desirous of possessing the true revised and improved official edition of the Methodist Hymnbook, are advised to be careful to examine the imprint, and to purchase those only published by our General Book Agents, for the Methodist Episcopal Church, or by the Agent at Cincinnati, A COLLECTION OF HYMNS. AWAKENING AND INVITING. Melody-p. 2.] HYMN 1. C. M. FIRST PART. FOR a thousand tongues to sing 2 My gracious Master, and my God, To spread through all the earth abroad 3 Jesus!-the Name that charms our fears, 4 He breaks the power of cancell’ù sin, His blood can make the foulest clean; 5 He speaks-and listening to his voice, The mournful, broken hearts rejoice; 6 Hear him, ye deaf; his praise, ye dumb, SECOND PART. LOOK unto Him, ye nations; own Look, and be saved through faith alone, 2 See all your sins on Jesus laid. 3 Awake from guiity nature's sleep, 4 With me, your chief, ye then shall know Calvary-p. 161.] HYMN 2. P. M. YOME, ye sinners, poor and needy, Jesus ready stands to save you, He is able, He is willing, doubt no more. 2 Now, ye needy, conie and welcome, True belief and true repentance, Come to Jesus Christ and buy. |