The voice of praise
Subtitle: a collection of hymns for the use of the Methodist Church
By: compiled and published by authority of the General Conference
Contributors: Clark, Alexander, 1834-1879
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: A.H. Bassett
Published: 1872
Place of publication: Pittsburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 788
Subjects: English Hymns; Hymns; Methodist Church (U.S. : 1866-1877); Methodist Protestant Church (U.S. : 1830-1939)
Notes: 1053 hymns (captioned for theme, author or composer, meter), 6 chants, 12 doxologies and 1 dismission (captioned for meter) ; without music.

Compiled by order of the first "General Conference of the Methodist (late Methodist Protestant) Church," Cleveland, OH, May, 1867 ; "appointed the undersigned to compile a Hymn Book for the denomination" ; authorized by General Conference, May, 1871, Pittsburgh, PA ; signed : Alexander Clark, I. W. McKeever, Wm. Rinehart, J. A. Dohrman, Committee of compilation. June 12, 1871--Pref.

"The first General Conference of the Methodist (late Methodist Protestant) Church, which met in Cleveland, Ohio, in May, 1867, appointed the undersigned to compile a Hymn Book for the denomination, to be entitled The Voice of Praise. The work was ... undertaken ... until the subsequent General Conference, in May, 1871, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, when the compilation was examined, endorsed, and ordered to be published for general use among the churches ... ; signed : Alexander Clark, I. W. McKeever, Wm. Rinehart, J. A. Dohrman, Committee of compilation. June 12, 1871"--Pref.

"Bro. William Reeves, the ... Chairman of the Hymn Book Committee ... His ... preparation and arrangement of the first divisions of this book ..." ; "A few ... compositions ... culled from ... T.H. Stockton" ; "Asa Mahan ..., T.B. Graham ..., and T.B. Carpenter ... were appointed a special committee"--Pref. (p. iii, v).