Hymns, selected and original, for public and private worship
By: published by the General Synod for the Evangelical Lutheran Church
Edition: Rev. ed.
Publisher: Printed & sold by T. Newton Kurtz
Published: 1855
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 692
Copyright date: 1854
Notes: 759 hymns; doxologies numbered 760-766; an appendix containing hymns numbered 767-1004 and dismissions and doxologies numbered 1005-1024.

It contains the Formula for the government and discipline of the Evangelical Lutheran Church.

The General Synod instructed the Financial Hymn Book Committee to publish a small edition of the hymn book. This is a reprint of the revised edition of 1854 which was prepared by a committee with Dr. W.M. Reynolds as chairman, appointed by the General Synod of 1845, and first published 1850.