Produced by Ryan Wheeler, Alicia Williams, Stephen Hutcheson, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net A BOOK OF HYMNS FOR PUBLIC AND PRIVATE DEVOTION. FIFTEENTH EDITION. BOSTON: TICKNOR AND FIELDS. M DCCC LXVI. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1848, BY WM. D. TICKNOR & COMPANY, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts. PREFACE. Among the Hymns in the following collection will be found many which are not of the commonly recognized metres. Some of these are already set to music of their own. Others can readily be adapted by the choir-leader to the simple chants which are now generally found in our collections of Sacred Music. An asterisk prefixed to the author's name indicates that some change has been made in the hymn by the present compilers. The titles of the Supplementary Hymns in the present edition have been introduced _within_ the original table of contents, instead of forming a separate series at the end. Boston, April 22, 1848. INDEX OF FIRST LINES. Hymn. According to Thy gracious word, 139 Acquaint thee, O spirit, acquaint thee with God, 199 Affliction's faded form draws nigh, 329 Ages, ages have departed, 439 A holy air is breathing round, 157 All around us, fair with flowers, 306 All from the sun's uprise, 495 All men are equal in their birth, 182 All-seeing God! 'tis Thine to know, 288 All ye nations, praise the Lord, 499 Almighty Father! Thou hast many a blessing, 217 Almighty God! in humble prayer, 43 Almighty Spirit, now behold, 594 Am I a soldier of the cross, 311 An offering at the shrine of power, 426 Another day its course has run, 372 Another hand is beckoning us, 404 Approach not the altar with gloom in thy soul, 464 As down in the sunless retreats of the ocean, 96 As every day Thy mercy spares, 59