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ENTERED according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1835, by PAUL BECK, Jr., Treasurer, in trust for the American Sunday-school Union, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

PREFACE.

THE inquiry has often been made, why a collection of hymns is not published sufficiently extensive to supply the wants of Sunday. schools. It is said, that the little hymn book in common use was very well at the commencement of the Sunday-school system, but since monthly concerts, anniversaries, missionary meetings, teachers' prayer meetings, &c. &c. have become so common, a larger volume is called for, and a more extensive variety is indispensable.

The "New Hymn Book," as it is entitled, was an experiment, to see how far sacred music, as a science, could be introduced into Sunday. schools by connecting it with a hymn book. It was never supposed that so limited a variety of hymns as that collection contains, and many

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of them too of so peculiar a measure, would

supply the deficiency.

The present compilation will be found to con tain the best part of the Sunday-school hymn books now in use; and much pains have been taken to glean from all other sources within our reach such a collection as shall supply the wants of the religious community, and espe cially that part of it which is connected with Sabbath-schools.

SABBATH-SCHOOL HYMNS.

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CREATION AND PROVIDENCE.

The goodness of God.

C. M.

1 HOW kind in all his works and ways
Must our Creator be;

We learn some lesson of his praise
From every thing we see.

2 The glorious sun that blazes high,
The moon more pale and dim,'
With all the stars that fill the sky,
Are made and ruled by him.

3 And this vast world of ours below,
The water and the land,

And all the trees and flowers that grow,
Were fashioned by his hand.

4 Yes, and he formed our infant race,
And he is ever near

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To those who early seek his face
By humble, earnest prayer.

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God seen in his works. C. M.

THERE'S not a tint that paints the rose, Or decks the lily fair,

Or streaks the humblest flower that blows, But God has placed it there.

2 At early dawn there's not a gale
Across the landscape driven,

And not a breeze that sweeps the vale,
That is not sent by heaven.

3 There's not of grass a single blade,
Or leaf of loveliest green,

Where heavenly skill is not displayed
And heavenly wisdom seen.

4 There's not a tempest dark and dread,
Or storm that rends the air,
Or blast that sweeps the ocean's bed,
But God's own voice is there.

5 Around, beneath, below, above,
Wherever space extends,

There God displays his boundless love,
And power with mercy blends.

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God the Creator.

C. M.

1 THERE'S not a star whose twinkling light Shines on the distant earth,

And cheers the silent gloom of night,
But Mercy gave it birth.

2 There's not a cloud whose dews distil
Upon the parching clod,

And clothe with verdure vale and hill,
That is not sent by God.

3 There's not a place in earth's vast round,
In ocean's deep, or air,
Where skill and wisdom are not found;
For God is everywhere.

4 Around, beneath, below, above,
Wherever space extends,

There God displays his boundless love,
And power with mercy blends.

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