HYMNS AND TUNES FOR PRAYER AND SOCIAL MEETINGS. COMPILED BY REV. GEORGE C. ROBINSON. "O come let us sing unto the Lord; let us make a joyful noise unto the Rock CINCINNATI: PUBLISHED BY POE & HITCHCOCK, CORNER MAIN AND EIGHTH STREETS. B. P. THOMPSON. PRINTER. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, BY POE & HITCHCOCK, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. STEREOTYPED AT THE FRANKLIN TYPE FOUNDRY, CINCINNATI. PREFACE. THE preparation of this work was undertaken in the hope of assisting devotional singing, and of thus rendering acceptable service to God. It is now offered, not to create, but to supply a want, of the existence of which there can be no doubt. The Rev. Dr. D. W. CLARK has thus expressed. himself concerning it: "The recent contributions to our social melodies have been numerous and valuable; yet no one of them has appeared to me exactly to meet the wants of the Church and the times. Some have depended mainly, for success, upon a few new and popular songs or tunes; others have been deficient in careful selection; and still others, by the insertion of many hymns and tunes, rarely, if ever, used in social meetings, have been made too large and too expensive for popular use. The real want for our social meetings is a small and cheap volume, comprising the old hymns and tunes which have become sacred by almost universal use, and also a judicious selection from the later popular songs and melodies." Rev. Dr. MCCLINTOCK has also expressed substantially the same opinion... He says: "A fit collection of Prayer and Class-meeting tunes I have long desired to see. It certainly is one of the serious wants of the Church." The plan of the book is as follows: It is small enough to make selection always easy, and to allow pastor and people to become thoroughly familiar with it: it is large enough to include several hymns under each of the topics which are |