SOCIAL HYMNS AND TUNES, FOR THE Conference and Prayer-Meeting, and the Home. WITH SERVICES AND PRAYERS. BOSTON. AMERICAN UNITARIAN ASSOCIATION. BV 445 .Sle Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by THE AMERICAN UNITARIAN ASSOCIATION, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts. ༡ CAMBRIDGE: PRESS OF JOHN WILSON AND SON. PREFACE. THIS HIS book has been abridged from the larger work recently published, for two objects: to furnish a compact manual of devotion and of sacred music for vestry, conference, and social meetings; and, at the same time, to extend the advantages of the Hymn and Tune Book to a considerable number of churches in which for various reasons a smaller book was desirable. In arranging the hymns, both objects have been kept in view; so that every page has at least one full hymn for the usual services of the church, and generally some shorter selections better adapted for use in the informal singing of the conference meeting. The running titles at the top of the pages will in most cases be found to be descriptive of the hymns below, although changes in the arrangement of the hymns have occasioned a want of agreement in some instances. A few pieces of music have been added, especially adapted for use in conference meetings, and also one or two favorite chants. |