Hymns and Spiritual Songs
Author: first_name: J. C.
last_name: Ryle
Language: English
Year: 1867

In sending forth a new collection of Hymns, I feel it necessary to preface the work by a few words of explanation.  The volume now in the reader's hands does not profess to be a complete collection of all the best English hymns. The comfort of invalids and the edification of Christians in private have been the two principal objects I have had in view in preparing this collection.  I hold strongly, that holy thoughts often abide for ever in men's memories under the form of poetry, which pass away