Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for Social and Private Worship
The following compilation was undertaken by a Committee appointed for the purpose by the Seventh-day Baptist General Conference, at a meeting held in Shiloh, N. J., in September, 1846. The Committee, having completed the task assigned them, would, in. Placing it before their brethren, simply remark, that they have aimed at combining variety of subject and metre, lyrical excellence, and sound doctrinal sentiment. It is believed that, in these re spects, the work is not surpassed by any other Hymn Book extant. It has not, however, been the object of the Committee to impart instruc tion in doctrine, so much as to provide a suitable medium for the expression of holy emotions. Important as it is to be intsructed in doctrine.
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