We have also, in every possible instance, taken the songs from the original text of the author. No change has been made, except when it was necessary to give the proper cadence for singing, and in a few instances to make a local allusion general. We hold ourselves responsible for some new versions of The Psalms, in which we have disregarded rhyme, and simply endeavored to fit the original words of Scripture to established metres. We found that the slightest change usually effected it, and could but remark how the constraints of rhyme had forced the authors of previous versions to alter language that was most fit, to add what was superfluous, and, in some cases, to change a grand rhapsody to a ludicrous paraphrase. A number of tunes, the best adapted for congregational use, will be found at the close of the volume; and they have been selected and arranged under the direction of Mr. B. F. BAKER. November 1, 1859. (iv) GEORGE H. HEPWORTH, JUSTIN WINsor. Index of First Lines. According to thy gracious word...... Acquaint thee, O spirit, acquaint thee with God...... All around us, fair with flowers All is of God! if he but wave his hand...... All men are equal in their birth...... All-moving Spirit, freely forth All over life's shadowy border flow All thoughts of ill; all evil deeds...... As every day thy mercy spares.. 181 43 44 32 i12 116 75 138 Be doers of the word, not hearers only... ...... Behold the western evening light..... Beyond, beyond that boundless sea.. Birds have their quiet nest............. Bread and wine he bade us take.. Breast the wave, Christian, when it is strongest.. Brightest and best of the sons of the morning. Brother, the angels say, peace to thy heart But how shall we be glad.. By cool Siloam's shady rill.. Calm on the listening ear of night,. Centre of our hopes thou art..... Come, thou Almighty King.. Come to the house of prayer.. Come to the land of peace.. Come unto me when shadows darkly gather.... Come, yè disconsolate, where'er ye languish.. Commit thou all thy griefs ... Daughter of Zion, awake from thy sadness.... Doomed and forgotten! these are sounds attuned...... Down the dark future, through long generations.... Earth is the Lord's and all thereof.. Earth's children cleave to earth; her frail Ere mountains reared their forms sublime. Every day hath toil and trouble....... Fading, still fading, the last beam is shining............ 81 Faith, hope, and charity, these three........ Father of all! in every age... 162 95 47 35 252 26 Father of light, conduct my feet....... 39 No. Father of our feeble race,. Father supreme, thou high and holy one...... Father, that in the olive shade........ ...... 196 74 102 223 Father, the watches of the night are o'er Forth from the dark and stormy sky. From all that dwell below the skies..... From the recesses of a lowly spirit God calling yet! and I not yet arising... God is our refuge and our strength. .... God moves in a mysterious way 99 God, named love, whose fount thou art...... 48 God of eternity, from thee...... 46 God of the changing year, whose arm of power..... 233 God, thou art good; each perfumed flower. Great God, how vain our lives can be.... 114 Great God, my Father and my Friend.. 34 Great God, the followers of thy Son.. Great God, we feel the burden of thine eye... Grown wiser for the lesson given....... Guard us, O thou who never sleepest..... ...... Hark! an anthem in the sky....... He comes with succor speedy.. ...... He is alone my help and hope He sendeth sun, he sendeth shower...... In the long vista of the years to roll In this dim world of clouding cares....... In this our parting hour... ........ Is there no guerdon for the brave Know, my soul, thy full salvation....... ....... Leaves have their time to fall.... ...... |