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COLLECTION

OF

HYMNS,

FOR THE USE OF THE

WESLEYAN METHODIST CONNECTION

OF AMERICA.

COMPILED BY

REV. CYRUS PRINDLE.

"I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the under-
standing also."-1 COR. xiv. 15.

NEW EDITION.

NEW-YORK:

PUBLISHED BY O. SCOTT,

FOR THE WESLEYAN METHODIST CONNECTION.

1846.

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PREFACE.

IN presenting this collection of hymns to the Wesleyan Methodist Connection, and the public, the Publisher deems it proper to advert to the process by which it has been brought into existence. At the organization of the Connection, which was by a Convention held at Utica, New York, May, 1843, there was an understanding that a Hymn Book would soon be issued suited to the wants of the Connection; and the expectation thus created led to such pressing calls for the book from different sections of the country, that the Publisher was led to put it to press without bestowing upon it that amount of labor necessary to make the work what it was desired it should be.

The first General Conference which assembled in Cleveland, Ohio, October, 1844, wishing fully to meet the wants of the Connection, ordered a new book to be compiled and published. To ensure a faithful execution of their design, the Conference appointed the REV. CYRUS PRINDLE to compile the work, and prepare it for the press. It has been a work of much labor and difficulty, and of the ability and fidelity with which he has discharged the responsibilities committed to him, the work itself furnishes the best possible proof. It is a collection of hymns thus officially originated that the Publisher now presents to the Connection and the public.

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