1/86] ^/iT. IVILLTAM SMITH, D. D. I9I 



day, or show our children after us what honest and conscientious labor 

 we bestowed on the work committed to us. 



Yours, 



Wm. Smith, 



Bev. Dr. Whiie fo Rev. Dr. Smith. 



Philadelphia, March 8, 17S6. 



Dear Sir :....! send you the sheets finished ; besides which there 

 is another form prepared for press containing the residue of the psalms 

 and the first Nativity Hymn : besides which other hymns are prepared 

 in a detached way, but cannot be put in form for want of quadrats re- 

 maining in the preceding forms; as these latter cannot be broken until 

 the receipt of some paper hourly expected from mill. We have not 

 yet suffered for want of it. I lament our delays but cannot help them. 

 I will review the hymns to which your remarks or Mr. Hopkinson's 

 relate and endeavor to settle them to your satisfaction. The only 

 liberty (so far as I recollect) that I have taken with the others is the 

 leaving out some verses in one of the hymns at sea respecting the blas- 

 pheming after a storm which appeared to me too much like the language 

 — "/ cvn not as this Publican.'''' If you dislike this omission, I can still 

 retain the verses. I have also put the Glory be to the Father, etc., 

 immediately after the psalms before the notification that the hymns 

 begin : as it is meant to be a part of a psalm to convert it into a Chris- 

 tian hymn, but not itself commonly known under the term hymn. 



The paper I have prepared for the press relative to the holy days has 

 the extra holidays just as you desire. You have omitted answering me 

 on a very important question respecting the calendar lessons. On the 

 one hand I find that by our taking it in hand, these three important 

 points may be gained: the shortening of the daily service, the getting 

 rid of the Apocrypha, and the omitting two or three lessons very offen- 

 sive (in public reading) to modest ears. On the other hand it is not 

 within the letter of our appointment, so that I should not like to accom- 

 plish what I think best on this subject without your concurrence. 



I shall continue the preface to your satisfaction. As to the punctua- 

 tion of this and the hymns, I had presumed from a general glance over 

 the points that you had attended to them ; but if any appear improper 

 in the proof-sheets I will correct them. 



It gives me great pleasure that you are satisfied with the execution 

 of my part of the trust on this occasion ; especially as I can with great 

 sincerity make a similar acknowledgment ; and as I shall ahvay allow 

 you more credit on the score oi judgment than you ought to allow me, 

 so also there is nothing you can say on that of candor and temper which 

 I sliall not as freely and fully say of you. 



You are right as to Mr. Hall's estimate of sheets, and as to the price 

 of binding nothing more has past. Mr. Woodhouse has lialf the num- 

 ber prepared for the covers and is impatient to begin. 



