HYMNAL:

ACCORDING TO THE USE

OF THE

PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH

IN THE

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

PHILADELPHIA:

CLAXTON, REMSEN & HAFFELFINGER,

819 & 821 MARKET STREET.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871, by

FISH

THE TRUSTEES OF THE FUND FOR THE RELIEF OF WIDOWS AND ORPHANS of deceased CLERGYMEN, AND OF AGED, INFIRM, AND DISABLED Clergymen of THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH

IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

"It shall be the duty of every Minister, with such assistance as he can obtain from persons skilled in music, to give order concerning the tunes to be sung at any time in his church; and especially, it shall be his duty to suppress all light and unseemly music, and all indecency and irreverence in the performance, by which vain and ungodly persons profane the service of the Sanctuary."