A Collection Of Hymns For General Use

Author : John Wesley
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330289266
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book A Collection of Hymns, for the Use of the People Called Methodists written by John Wesley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-13 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Collection of Hymns, for the Use of the People Called Methodists: With a Supplement 1. For many years I have been importuned to publish such a hymn-book as might be generally used in all our congregations throughout Great Britain and Ireland. I have hitherto withstood the importunity, as I believed such a publication was needless, considering the various hymn-books which my brother and I have published within these forty years last past; so that it may be doubted whether any religious community in the world has a greater variety of them. 2. But it has been answered, Such a publication is highly needful upon this very account; for the greater part of the people, being poor, are not able to purchase so many books: and those that have purchased them are, as it were, bewildered in the immense variety. A proper collection of hymns for general use, carefully made out of all these books, is therefore still wanting; and one comprised in so moderate a compass, as to be neither cumbersome nor expensive. 3. It has been replied, You have such a collection already, (entitled Hymns and Spiritual Songs,) which I extracted several years ago from a variety of hymn-books. But it is objected, This is in the other extreme; it is far too small. It does not, it cannot, in so narrow a compass, contain variety enough; not so much as we want, among whom singing makes so considerable a part of the public service. What we want is, a collection not too large, that it may be cheap and portable; nor too small, that it may contain a sufficient variety for all ordinary occasions., 4.Such a Hymn-Book you have now before you. It is not so large as to be either cumbersome, or expensive: and it is large enough to contain such a variety of hymns, as will not soon be worn threadbare. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.