ANDOVER-HARVARD THEOLOGICAL LIBRARY JUN 22 1912 HARVARD DIVINITY SCHOOL H41103 PRINTED BY B. H. BLACKWELL, 50 AND 51, BROAD STREET, OXFORD. M268 hy 1894 Cap.2 PREFACE. THIS book is an attempt to meet the devotional wants of a group of students preparing for the Christian ministry and meeting privately for College prayer, and of a congregation in its seasons of public worship. This twofold aim will perhaps account for the unusual stress laid on certain topics and occasions. The thanks of the Editor are due to a large number of authors and publishers who have kindly permitted the hymns belonging to them to be reproduced. In one or two cases the silence of the owners of copyright has been taken to imply their tacit sanction: in one or two others it was impossible to discover to whom application should be made and it is hoped that if any proprietary rights have been infringed, this explanation will be accepted with the expression of the Compiler's regret. The hymns of those writers who, like the Bishop of Wakefield, the Rev. Stopford A. Brooke, and Prof. F. T. Palgrave, have generously placed their poems at the service of the Church, have been freely used: and the Editor desires, in addition, to make his sincere acknowledgments to the following: The Executors of the late Dean Alford. Mrs. Armitage. The Chairman of the Committee of Hymns Ancient and Modern for a hymn by Sir H. W. Baker. The Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould, M.A. Messrs. James Nisbet and Co., for hymns by the late Dr. H. Bonar, and a hymn by the late Miss Havergal. Messrs. Thomas Nelson and Sons, for hymns by the late Rev. J. D. Burns, and by ‘H. L. L.' The Rev. John White Chadwick, Brooklyn, New York. The Rev. A. W. Chatfield, M.A. The Rev. T. G. Crippen. The Rev. Frank G. Ellerton, M.A., for hymns by the late Canon Ellerton. Messrs. Burns and Oates for hymns by the late Father Faber. The Rev. William Channing Gannett, Rochester, New York. Mrs. Geldart for a hymn by the late Rev. E. M. Geldart, M.A. Mr. Wilfrid S. Hatch, for hymns by the late Rev. Edwin Hatch, M.A. The Rev. Thomas Hincks, F.R.S. The Rev. J. P. Hopps. The Rev. F. L. Hosmer, Chicago. Mr. E. Melville Lynch for hymns by the late Rev. Thomas T. Lynch. Dr. George Macdonald. * The Editor is further indebted to him for permission to use hymns adapted by him for his two collections, Hymns for the Christian Church and Home, 1840, and Hymns of Praise and Prayer, 1873. The Rev. W. Tidd Matson. Mrs. Mudie, for a hymn by the late Mr. C. E. Mudie. Mr. J. T. Hayes, for a hymn by the late Dr. Neale. The late Mr. Herbert New. The Rev. H. H. Oakley, for a hymn by Principal Sherman Oakley. The Executors of the late Dean Plumptre. Messrs. G. Bell and Sons, for a hymn by the late Miss Procter. The Religious Tract Society, for a hymn by the late Mr. G. Rawson. The Hon. Rollo Russell. Mrs. Sadler, for hymns by the late Rev. Dr. Sadler. The Rev. John Sharp, M.A. The Rev. Dr. Walter C. Smith. The Representatives of the late Dean Stanley, through Mr. John Murray. The Rev. S. J. Stone, M.A. The Rev. H. G. Tomkins, M.A. The Rev. Lawrence Tuttiett, M.A. The Society for promoting Christian Knowledge, for hymns by Miss A. L. Waring. The Bishop of Salisbury, for a hymn by the late Bishop of Lincoln. Mr. Thomas Hornblower Gill also kindly allowed the Editor to purchase the use of a considerable number of his hymns; and permission to reproduce a translation by the late Miss Catherine Winkworth has been obtained on their usual terms from Messrs. Longmans and Co. |