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THE SOCIAL PSALMIST; 



A NEW SELECTION OF HYMNS FOR CONFERENCE MEETINGS AND FAMILY WORSHIP, 

 BY BARON STOW AND S. F. SMITH. 



is- This selection has been in preparation nearly five years, during which time it has been sub- 

 jected to repeated examination and careful revision. The object In its preparation has been to furnish 

 a selection of choice Hymns, for the Vestry and the Family Circle, of moderate size and at trifling 

 expense, exactly suited to the various stages and conditions of the conference, and other devotional 

 meetings usually held In the Conference Room, as well as in Family Worship. Hymns, for instance, 

 on topics embracing prayer, praise, warning, invitation, entreaty, regeneration, repentance, faith, 

 times of declension, times of revival, receiving and dismissing members ; the Church in prosperity, 

 and in adversity ; Missionary, Sabbath School, and maternal meetings; meeting and parting, sick- 

 ness and health, opening and closing year ; brevity of time; death, judgment, heaven, <fcc. It has 

 been the aim to supply hymns not only of elevated poetic and musical merit, but of true devotional 

 spirit. A selection of some of the choicest hymns in the Psalmist, adapted to the design of this 

 book, will here be found, together with several new hymns, as well as those long familiar in the con- 

 ference meeting, and hallowed by early associations of home, and social prayer. Their familiarity, 

 instead of being an objection to them, is their highest praise. That they have expressed the devout 

 aspirations of those who have passed on to the worship of the heavenly temple, gives them a charm 

 which compositions wholly new could not claim. In the minds of different Christians, we believe 

 that most of the hymns in this book will summon up some sweet and holy recollections. 



The work contains 350 Hymns, besides Doxologies in various meters, not numbered In the list of 

 hymns. They are the productions of 134 different authors ; 115 are by Watts, 18 by Steele, 17 by 

 Doddridge, 14 by Newton, 9 by Wesley, 5 each by Cowper, Fawcett, Kelly, and Smith, 4 each by 

 Heber Beddome, Stennett and Toplady, and others by Swain, Montgomery, Hart, Dwight, Bar- 

 bauld, Hyde, Reed, Heginbotham, Grant, Cennick, Oliver, Edmeston, Kenn, De Fleury, Scott, 

 Dobell, Raffles, Pitt, Noel, Medley, Cotton, Ryland, Williams, Boden, Cottreil, Logan, Conden 

 Collyer, Milman, Kirkham, White, Collins, Robinson, Duncan, Stowell, Cobbin, Kingsbury, Thornby, 

 Allen, Grigg, &c. There is a large variety of every description of meter, embracing 83 Long, 119 

 Common, 54 Short, and 94 of various peculiar meters. 



It was first contemplated having Music in the volume, but on consultation and reflection it was 

 deemed unadvisable, as it must necessarily add to the size and expense of the book, and music not 

 familiar enough to sing in social worship without notes is of little avail, and is seldom used by those 

 even unacquainted with music, and most of those who usually sing in the conference meeting are 

 entirely unacquainted with the rudiments of music, and consequently are in no way benefltted by this 

 addition ; and not unfrequcntly the spirit of devotion is retarded, by the use of tunes not familiar to 

 those who usually join in tills favorite soul-stirring service. 



The work contains three valuable Indexes ; an Index of First Lines, a General Index, and a very full 

 Particular Index of Subjects. 



The type, and size of the page, are the same as the 18mo. , or pew size of the Psalmist. It is printed 

 on good paper, and strongly bound In sheep, and is afforded at the very low price of twenty-five cents 

 per copy, and 2.50 per dozen. 



93- Copies for examination furnished clergymen gratis, on application to the publishers. The work, 

 n paper covers, can be sent by mail at a trifling expense for postage. 



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