REVISED BY THE COMMITTEE OF PVKLICATION, OF THE AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION, Philadelphia: 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 האינוברס PREFACE. THE inquiry has often been made, why a col lection 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 etings, teachers' prayer meetings, &c. &a have become so common, a larger volume is elled for, and a more extensive variety is inBispensable. The "New Hymn Book," as it is entitled, was an experiment, to see how far sacred music, as science, could be introduced into Sundayschools by connecting it with a hymn book. It was never supposed that so limited a variety of hymns as that ollection contains, and many 3 |