list Frotect The Methodist Protestant Containing also the Ritual Board of Publication of the HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY FROM THE ESTATE OF COPYRIGHT, 1901, BY THE BALTIMORE BOOK DIRECTORY OF THE METHODIST PROTESTANT CHURCH AND THE PITTSBURGH BOOK DIRECTORY OF THE METHODIST PROTESTANT CHURCH M • M556 Stanbope Press F. H. GILSON COMPANY THIS HIS Hymnal has been compiled by the following Committee appointed by the General Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church, held at Atlantic City, N. J., May 18-26, 1900: Rev. T. H. LEWIS, D.D., Rev. S. S. FISHER, Rev. M. D. HELMICK, D.D., Hon. J. W. HERING, WILLIAM WALLS, Esq. The Book is successor to the following: Hymn Book, compiled by Mr. John J. Harrod, 1828. Hymn Book of the Methodist Protestant Church, compiled by Rev. T. H. Stockton by authority of the General Conference and published in 1838. Hymn Book of the Methodist Protestant Church, compiled by Rev. Josiah Varden, Rev. J. J. Murray, Rev. E. Y. Reese, Luther Martin, Esq., and Edmund G. Waters, Esq., by authority of the General Conference, and published in 1859. Hymn Book, compiled by Revs. George Brown, Joel Dalbey, S. W. Widney, J. M. Mayall, and A. H. Bassett, by authority of the delegates of the Northern and Western Conferences of the Methodist Protestant Church, and published in 1860. The Voice of Praise, compiled by Rev. Alexander Clark, Rev. I. W. McKeever, William Rinehart, Esq., and J. A. Dohrman, Esq., by authority of the General Conference of the Methodist Church, and published in 1872. The Tribute of Praise, a book prepared under the editorship of Dr. Eben Tourjee and adopted for use in the Methodist Protestant Church by the following Committee appointed by the General Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church in 1880: L. W. Bates, S. B. Southerland, H. F. Zollickoffer, J. Cowl, F. H. Collier, P. Kiel, Jr., I. W. McKeever, E. S. Brown, J. M. Duncan, D. Trueman, F. M. Durbin, J. L. Michaux, F. H. M. Henderson, J. H. Robinson, A. H. Bassett. The book was introduced in 1882, and was the first book containing both hymns and tunes to be used by the Church. |