HYMNS, OLD AND NEW, FOR CHURCH AND HOME, AND FOR TRAVEL BY LAND OR SEA. CONSISTING OF 224 SELECTED, AND 259 ORIGINAL HYMNS. BY THOMAS DAVIS, M. A., INCUMBENT OF ROUNDHAY, YORKSHIRE. LONDON: LONGMAN, GREEN, LONGMAN, ROBERTS, AND GREEN. 1864. 147.9.52 PREFACE. THE Hymns marked thus † in this Collection have been chosen with great care out of several thousands. The others are original, except that occasionally a thought has been derived from other writers. I hope that few subjects have been omitted that are fitted to awaken praise and thankfulness; and that the Hymns on Christian Graces, which, in common with several of the Psalms in Scripture, may be regarded as the language of brethren exhorting or encouraging one another to a life of holiness, may often be found appropriate and auxiliary to discourses from the pulpit. Their arrangement under different heads has been adopted more especially with a view to this use of them. Towards the close of these pages a small number of Hymns are placed under the heading |