The Chapel Hymn Book Containing Over Four Hundred Hymns and Spiritual Songs With the First Strain of the Melody Prefixed to the Hymns Designed for Meetings, Revivals, Etc Classic Reprint

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This hymn-book has grown out of a sense of want, increasingly felt through a pastorate of over twenty years -the want of appropriate singing in social meetings for devotion.

The church hymn-books, though a. Taining the richest spiritual poetry, have too 'uch of stateliness; they are too didactic, too deficient in those lively sentimental hymns and choruses which thrill the popular heart. The use of these books in social meetings fosters a stiffness, formality and coldness, which tend to make the Chapel an uninteresting and unpopular place. Moreover, these books are either too large, or are in such small type, that few persons will carry them to the prayer-meeting hence, either but a small portion of the congregation sing at all; or hymns familiar to the people will be sung from week to week, through years of wearisome repetitions, until all interest in this part of Divine worship has ceased.

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