Parish hymns
Subtitle: a collection of hymns for public, social, and private worship : selected and original
Contributors: Ashmead, Isaac, 1790-1870
Publisher: Perkins & Purves
Published: 1844
Place of publication: Philadephia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 478
Copyright date: 1843
Subjects: English Hymns
Notes: 595 hymns, 23 doxologies (indicating meter, theme) ; without music.

Includes indexes.

[ca. 474 p.] numbered to p. 478.

"Prepared with reference to ... the general judgment of the Christian public" ; "... a few hymns ... in which ... alterations have been made .... The original hymns are designated as such in the Index"--Pref. p. [iii]-iv.

Classification of subjects : Worship ; Scriptures ; God ; Christ ; Holy Spirit ; Sinner awakened ; Suppliant ; Christian experience ; Prayer ; Christian life ; Revival ; Kingdom of Christ ; Sabbath ; Special occasions ; Childhood and youth ; Death ; Judgment ; Eternal state ; Lord's prayer ; Doxologies--at end (p. 445-448).

Table of metres : "Note.--Metres of which there are but single specimens ... not inserted ...."--p. 449.

Edited by Seth Collins Breace--c.f. Benson.