feave them generally out-That the warm heart of a young convert will take a strong hold, and that with pleasure and profit too, of many things, from which, in a more ripened state, he would derive neither."

After selecting a hymn, my first object has been to bring it into a form best adapted to be read or sung in meetings for religious purposes. With this view, some of them have been divided, and others reduced to a stricter unity of thought.

With respect to the arrangement, it has cost me much labor. After all, I have not been able entirely to satisfy my own mind. I am aware that many of the hymns placed under different heads, might have been arranged under the same; and yet all these heads seemed indispensable. The Christian and the Convert, for example, might have been included under one head. But there are so many things peculiar to the commencement of the Christian life, that it was deemed highly proper to collect a number suited to his case, and place them under the eye of the young convert.

This part of my employment has been highly delightful; and I cannot but indulge the hope, that among the many thousands who have commenced their christian course in the recent revivals, not a few of them will find this volume a pleasant and profitable companion on their way to the heavenly Zion.

The character of some of the hymns is such, that with equal propriety they might have been differently arranged. I have, therefore, distributed them under the several heads where I thought them most needed-recollecting that the intrinsic value of the hymn was not at all affected by the page which it might occupy.

Where the title of a hymn is omitted, it will be found in the next preceding, or in the running title.

Tunes adapted to most of the particular metres will be found in Zion's Harp, a small collection of Music designed to accompany this volume.

The compiler has only to add his grateful acknowledgments that this humble effort has met with such an extensive and welcome reception, and for the many tokens already received, that his labor has not been in vain.

New-York, May 20, 1825.

VILLAGE HYMNS.

GOD.

HYMN 1.

L. M.

WATTS.

HERE is a God, who reigns above,
Lord of the heav'n, and earth and

seas;

I fear his wrath, I ask his love,
And with my lips I sing his praise.
2 There is a law which he has writ,
To teach us all, what we must do;
My soul, to his commands submit,
For they are holy, just, and true.

3 There is a gospel rich in grace,
Whence sinners all their comforts draw;
Lord, I repent and seek thy face,
For I have often broke thy law.

4 There is an hour when I must die,
Nor do I know how soon 'twill come;
How many, younger much than I,

Have pass'd by death to hear their doom

5 Let me improve the hours I have,
Before the day of grace is fled;
There's no repentance in the grave,
Nor pardon offer'd to the dead.

HYMN 2. C. M.

His condescension.

WATTS.

Isa. lxvi. 2.

THEN the Eternal bows the skies;
To visit earthly things;

With scorn divine he turns his eyes
From towers of haughty kings.

2 He bids his awful chariot roll,
Far downward from the skies,
To visit every humble soul,
With pleasure in his eyes.

3 Why should the Lord, who reigns above, Disdain so lofty kings?

Say, Lord, and why such looks of love. Upon such worthless things?

4 Mortals, be dumb ;—what creature dares Dispute his awful will?

Ask no account of his affairs,

But tremble, and be still.

5 Just like his nature is his grace, All sovereign and all free;

Great God, how searchless are thy ways! How deep thy judgments be!

HYMN 3. C. M.

BLACKLOCK.

Omniscience and Omnipresence. Ps. cxxxix.

LORD, thou with an unerring beam
Surveyest all my powers;

My rising steps are watch'd by thee,
By thee, my resting hours.

2 My thoughts, scarce struggling into birth,
Great God, are known to thee;
Abroad, at home, still I'm enclos'd
With thine immensity.

3 To thee the labyrinths of life
In open view ppear;
Nor steals a whisper from my lips
Without thy listening ear.

Prov. xv. 3.-Heb. iv. 13.

1 THE eye of God is every where
To watch the sinner's ways;

He sees who join in humble prayer,
And who in solemn praise.

2 One glance of thine, eternal Lord,
Can pierce and search us through;
Nor heav'n, nor earth, nor hell afford
A shelter from thy view!

3 The universe, in every part,
At once before thee lies;