THE NEW HYMNARY:

A COLLECTION OF

HYMNS AND TUNES FOR SUNDAY SCHOOLS.

EDITED BY

SIGISMOND LASAR.

NEW YORK and CHICAGO:

PUBLISHED BY BIGLOW & MAIN.

[Copyright by BIGLOW & MAIN, 1876.]

INTRODUCTORY TO THE NEW HYMNARY.

FOUR years ago the HYMNARY was presented to the Christian public. It has met with remarkable succes the sale of the book having exceeded the expectations of the publishers. The work was issued to meet th demand of a “growing sentiment in favor of a higher standard of hymns and tunes in our Sunday Schools."

Experience has taught the Editor, that such a book is susceptible of still further improvement. No! has been made in the character of the hymns-in tunes, the improvement has been marked. The age dem such tunes as have a well pronounced and distinct melody. Those melodies need not be puerile, but s be based on the laws of melody and arranged in four parts according to well defined laws of harmony. Ser new pages have been substituted for the old and somewhat stereotyped or angular forms, which though in themselves, are hard and disagreeable to the ear.

The "NEW HYMNARY" will, it is believed, find its way to the hearts and homes of the people, place public worship, as well as to the Sunday Schools of the land, for which it is more especially designed. The old hymns of such men as the BERNARDS, WAtts, Doddridge, Wesley, HeBER, and MONTGOMERY, Wit.. medieval writers and translators as NEALE, CASWALL, FABER and the like, will be found wedded to music by suc composers as DYKES, SULLIVAN, SMART, TOURS, BARNBY, E. J. HOPKINS, CALKIN, STEGGALL, STainer, Goss, JOHN H. CORNELL, and others.

The Editor desires to make kind acknowledgment to Mr. HUBERT P. MAIN, for several new tune written for this work, and also for valuable assistance in the editing of it.

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S. L.

The Publishers will hold to strict account every infringement of copyright on this work.

Ev-
-er- more His prais- es sing; Hal- le- lu- jah! hal-le- lu- jah! Praise the ever-last-ing King.
Slow to chide, and swift to bless; Hal-le- lu- jah! hal-le- lu- jah! Glorious in His faithfulness.

Amen.

ather-like, He tends and spares us, Well our feeble frame He knows; In His hands He gently bears us, Rescues us from all our foes; Hallelujah! hallelujah ! Widely yet His mercy flows.

4 Angels in the height adore Him!
Ye behold Him face to face;
Saints triumphant bow before Him,
Gathered in from every race.
Hallelujah! hallelujah!

Praise with us the God of grace.—Amen.