A Collection of hymns, for the use of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Subtitle: principally from the collection of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M. late Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. : Revised and corrected, with the names of the tunes in the Harmonist affixed to each hymn. : With a supplement, and an index to the subjects of the hymns. : [Four lines of Scripture texts]
Contributors: Roberts, Robert R. (Robert Richford), 1778-1843, compiler; Soule, Joshua, 1781-1867, compiler; Hedding, Elijah, 1780-1852, compiler; Andrew, James O. (James Osgood), 1794-1871, compiler; Waugh, Beverly, 1789-1858, compiler; Morris, Thomas A. (Thomas Armstrong), 1811-1904, compiler; Bangs, Nathan, 1778-1862, compiler; Collord, James, 1792-1846, printer; Methodist Episcopal Church; T. Mason and G. Lane (Firm); Arthur Billings Hunt Collection (Columbia University. Libraries)
Publisher: Published by T. Mason and G. Lane, for the Methodist Episcopal Church, at the Conference Office, 200 Mulberry-Street. J. Collord, printer.
Published: 1838
Place of publication: New-York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 676
Subjects: Hymns; Creeds; Liturgy; Methodist Church; Liturgics; Methodist Episcopal Church
Other titles: Methodist harmonist.
Notes: Without music.

"To the members and friends of the Methodist Episcopal Church."--Page 3-5; signed: Robert R. Roberts, Joshua Soule, Elijah Hedding, James O. Andrew, Beverly Waugh, Thomas A. Morris.

"Notice. In this improved edition of the Methodist hymn book, the tunes adapted to the hymns, and contained in the lately revised and enlarged Harmonist, are named at the head of each hymn, together with the page of the Harmonist at which the tune may be found. ... Caution. All persons desirous of possessing the true revised and improved official edition ... are advised to be careful to examine the imprint ..."--Page 6.

Copyright 1838 by T. Mason and G. Lane.

"A supplement to the Collection of hymns ..."--Page [527]-596. Prefatory advertisement signed: N. Bangs. New-York, March 18, 1836.

Includes table of texts and index of first lines. Additional material at end includes "Articles of religion of the Methodist Episcopal Church.", p. 636-646, "Nature, design, and general rules of our untied socities.", p. 646-651, and a liturgy, p. 651-676.

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Gift; Mr. & Mrs. Alfred C. & Madeleine Berol; 1966.