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RATEFUL acknowledgment is made, for permission to use their original hymns, to Rev. Seth C. Beach, Rev. John W. Chadwick, Rev. Octavius B. Frothingham, Rev. Washington Gladden, Col. Thomas W. Higginson, Rev. Frederick L. Hosmer, Miss Charlotte M. Packard, Rev. Minot J. Savage, Miss Eliza Scudder, Rev. Samuel F. Smith, and Rev. Theodore C. Williams: and, for permission to use copyrighted hymns, to the Misses Very for two hymns by Jones Very; to Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. for the hymns of Samuel Longfellow, Samuel Johnson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier, Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Russell Lowell, Alice Cary, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Caroline A. Mason, William H. Burleigh, William H. Furness, and a hymn from Hymns of the Spirit; to Messrs. D. Appleton & Co. for a hymn by William Cullen Bryant; to Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons for a sonnet by Theodore Parker; to Messrs. Roberts Brothers for the hymn by Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham; and to Messrs. E. P. Dutton & Co. for the hymn. by Phillips Brooks.

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Grateful acknowledgment is made, for permission to use their original tunes, to Professor Horatio W. Parker for "Parker;" to Rev. John S. B. Hodges for "Matins; " to Dr. Walter B. Gilbert for "Gilberts" and Maidstone;" to the "Editors of the Tucker Hymnal" for permission to use the tunes "Rest," "Grace Church," Sears," and "All Saints; to the Oliver Ditson Co. for the tune "Bethany;" to The Outlook Co. for "Armstrong;" and to Rev. Charles L. Hutchins for valuable advice and assistance in the adaptation of tunes. In the preparation of the biographical indexes free use has been made of Julian's Dictionary of Hymnology, of Love's Scottish Church Music, and of the notes to the Church Hymnal by permission of the General Synod of the Church of Ireland, the Church of England Psalmody, and the Chorale Book for England. To Mr. James Warrington, of Philadelphia, especial thanks are due for his kindness in putting his valuable library of books on Psalmody at the service of the University, and for revising, for this edition, the Index of Composers.

BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.

AUTHORS AND TRANSLATORS.

Adams, Sarah Flower [1805-1848], daughter | Alexander, William Lindsay [1808-1884],

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Addison, Joseph [1672-1719], son of the Rev. Lancelot Addison, sometime dean of Lichfield: born at Milston, Wiltshire: Amesbury, Salisbury, Lichfield, and Charterhouse Schools; then Queen's then Magdalen College, Oxford, B. A., 1691, M. A., 1693, fellow of Magdalen College, 1697-1711: published in the Spectator on several Saturdays of 1712, 5 hymns. From the issue of August 9, printed there in 13 stanzas of 4 lines, have been here taken stanzas 1, 5, 8, 10, beginning, When all thy mercies, O my God

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son of William Alexander, Leith: born near Leith Universities of Edinburgh, St. Andrews, and Halle; D. D., St. Andrews, 1846; LL. D., Edinburgh, 1884; professor of theology and Church history in the Theological Hall of the Congregational Churches of Scotland: member of Old Testament Revision Company, 1870: published A Selection of Hymns, Edinburgh, 1849, for the use of the Augustine Church, of which he was minister. From the seven hymns which he contributed to that book have been here taken stanzas I, 3, 6, 7 of the 7 stanzas of 4 lines, beginning, Spirit of power, and truth, and love 45 Alford, Henry [1810-1871], son of the Rev. Henry Alford, rector of Ashton Sandford, Buckinghamshire: born at London: Trinity College, Cambridge, B. A., with honors, 1832, M. A., 1835, S. T. B., 1850, Hulsean lecturer, 1841-1842 dean of Canterbury, 1857-1871: editor of the Greek Testament: published in his Psalms and Hymns, 1844, and again in his Poetical Works, Boston, 1853, and again in his Year of Praise, London, 1867, in 4 stanzas of 4 lines, all here used,

O thou who hast thy servants taught

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He published in Psalms and Hymns, 1844, and then, revised, in his Poetical Works, Boston, 1853, then in his Year of Praise, London, 1867, in 4 stanzas of 8 lines, the hymn the first line of which follows. From the Poetical Works

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Come, ye thankful people, come . 290 Ambrosius (St. Ambrose) [340-397], son of Ambrosius, prefect of the Gauls born in Gaul: educated at Rome: bishop of Milan : "Father of Church Song." The hymn "Jam lucis orto sidere," given in Newman's Hymni Ecclesia, 1838 and 1865, in 6 stanzas of 4 lines, which is certainly ancient, and possibly as old as the 5th century, has often been assigned to St. Ambrose, but the evidence is not satisfactory. Stanzas 1, 2, 4 of the translation in 6 stanzas of 4 lines made by John Henry Newman, q. v., from the Paris Breviary text and published in his Verses, 1868, are here given. Now that the day-star glimmers bright

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O God! beneath thy guiding hand Baker, Sir Henry Williams, Bart. [18211877], son of Admiral Sir Henry Loraine Baker: born at London: Trinity College, Cambridge, B. A., 1844, M. A., 1850: editor of Hymns Ancient and Modern, to which he contributed 33 hymns. In the 1868 Appendix to that book was first published his version of Psalm xxiv. The 3d stanza, “ Perverse and foolish oft I strayed," was repeated by the dying lips of the author. This version is here given unchanged.

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