Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by GOULD AND LINCOLN, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts. GEO. C. RAND & AVERY, PREFACE. ANY of the pieces in this volume are not easily accessible to the majority of readers. No intentional alterations have been made, except omissions and change of titles. Be sides the hymns originally English, there will be found translations from the Syriac, Latin, Russian, German, French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese. The volume, however, does not profess to be a complete anthology in this department of religious literature. Sufficient materials for a second series remain even now in the hands of the compiler. A. C. T. |