FOR

BIC AND PRIVA

OLLECTION COMPILED BY A COMMITTEE

OF THE

HESHIRE PASTORAL ASSOCIATION.

SIXTH EDITION.

BOSTON:

WILLIAM CROSBY AND H. P. NICHOLS,

118 WASHINGTON STREET.

1846.

PREFACE.

Tr: following Collection of Hymns has been emr edya Committee of the Cheshire Pastoral Associa

The work was undertaken to meet the wants of , societies within its own limits, and may not, siere, have a very extended circulation beynd Ir; for many compilations already engage public aton and patronage. Our object has been to make 、ion embracing a large number and variety of

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adapted to all the purposes of public and, . worship, and one which at the same time might reshed at a low price.

have sought to give it a lyrical character, &. d .pt it to the choir as well as to the pulpit. In re of this idea, a greater variety of metres -al has been introduced. By selecting also a mount of introductory and closing hymns fr , and by paying special regard to the Christian 8, to funeral and mourning occasions, to domestic worship, and to philanthropic, r

ual, and missionary celebrations, we have en<to provide for wants which have not hithe..