4 Charles Wesley; names that will ever be held dear and in high estimation by every lover of sacred poetry. The following hymns, arranged under their appropriate heads, were submitted to our General Conference, approved by that body, and ordere for publication. In presenting this revised Hymnbook to you for your use, we humbly trust that we are putting into your hands one of the choicest selections of evangelical hymns, suitable for private devotion, as well as for family, social, and public worship, by which you will be much aided in the performance of these important parts of divine service. We are the more delighted with this design. as no personal advantage is concerned, but the public good alone. For after the necessary expenses of publication are discharged, we shall make it a noble charity, by applying the profits arising therefrom to religious and charitable purposes. No motive of a sinister nature has therefore influenced us in any degree to publish this excellent compilation. As the profits of the former editions have been scrupulously applied as above, so the same appropriation of the profits of the present shall be conscientiously observed. We must therefore earnestly entreat you, if you have any respect for the authority of the conference, or of us, or any regard for the prosperity of the 5 Church of which you are members and friends, to purchase no Hymnbooks but what are published by our own agents, and signed with the names of your bishops. And as we intend to keep a constant supply, the complaint of our congregations, "that they cannot procure our Hymnbooks," will be stopped. We exhort you to sing with the spirit and with the understanding also: and thus may the high praises of God be sent up from east to west, from north to south; and we shall be happily instrumental in leading the devotion of thousands, and shall rejoice to join you in time and eternity. We are, dear brethren, Your faithful pastors in Christ, ELIJAH HEDDING, BEVERLY WAUGH, THOMAS A. MORRIS, LEONIDAS L. HAMLINE, EDMUND S. JANES. NOTICE. In this improved edition of the Methodist Hymnbook, the tunes adapted to the hymns, as contained in the Methodist Harmonist, are named at the head of each hymn, together with the page of the Harmonist at which the tune may be found. The page of the Harmonist is signified by the letter "p." following the name of the tune. The hymns are numbered as heretofore, but the word hymn is left out. CAUTION. ALL persons desirous of possessing the true revised and improved official edition of the Methodist Hymnbook, with the Supplement, are advised to be careful to examine the imprint, and to purchase those only published by cur General Book Agents, for the Methodist Episcopal Church, or by the Agents at Cincinnati. FOR a thousand tongues, to sing 2 My gracious Master and my God, To spread through all the earth abroad 3 Jesus! the name that charms our fears, 'Tis music in the sinner's ears, 'Tis life, and health, and peace. 4 He breaks the power of cancell'd sin, His blood can make the foulest clean; 5 He speaks-and, list'ning to his voice, The mournful, broken hearts rejoice; 6 Hear him, ye deaf; his praise, ye dumb,, SECOND PART. LOOK unto Him, ye nations; own 2 See all your sins on Jesus laid : 3 Awake from guilty nature's sleep, 4 With me, your chief, ye then shall know, And own that love is heaven. 2 Calvary-p. 237.] 8th P. M. 87, 87, 47. OME, ye sinners, poor and needy, Jesus ready stands to save you, He is willing, doubt no more. True belief and true repentance, Come to Jesus Christ and buy. |