E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, David Wilson, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net/) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 18444-h.htm or 18444-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/8/4/4/18444/18444-h/18444-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/8/4/4/18444/18444-h.zip) THE STORY OF THE HYMNS AND TUNES by THERON BROWN and HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH _Multae terricolis linguae, coelestibus una._ _Ten thousand, thousand are their tongues, But all their joys are one._ New York, 1906 [Frontispiece: Thomas Ken] CONTENTS. PREFACE, v INTRODUCTION, ix 1. HYMNS OF PRAISE AND WORSHIP, 1 2. SOME HYMNS OF GREAT WITNESSES, 53 3. HYMNS OF CHRISTIAN DEVOTION AND EXPERIENCE, 100 4. MISSIONARY HYMNS, 165 5. HYMNS OF SUFFERING AND TRUST, 190 6. CHRISTIAN BALLADS, 237 7. OLD REVIVAL HYMNS, 262 8. SUNDAY SCHOOL HYMNS, 293 9. PATRIOTIC HYMNS, 321 10. SAILOR'S HYMNS, 353 11. HYMNS OF WALES, 378 12. FIELD HYMNS, 409 13. HYMNS, FESTIVAL AND OCCASIONAL, 458 14. HYMNS OF HOPE AND CONSOLATION, 509 INDEXES OF NAMES, TUNES, AND HYMNS, 543 LIST OF PORTRAITS.