Author: Methodist Episcopal Church

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-24

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 9780483824386

Excerpt from The Revision of the Hymn Book of the Methodist Episcopal Church: Report of the Committee to the Bishops It will be seen from these facts that the book now to be offered to the Methodist Episcopal Church is the seventh in number, and that the average life, if we may so speak, of each collection has been less than sixteen years. It will also be seen that the expres sion, the old Hymn Book, is, like all allusions to duration and association, limited and relative. As soon as the new Hymn Book shall have been published, the existing work will be, to the present generation, the old' Hymn Book. But to all who came upon the stage prior to May, 1849, and subsequent to 1836, the Bangs revision with the supplement was the old book, and the present collection the new; while to Nathan Bangs the pocket edition, with supplement, . Was the old, and his own work 'the new. Those, therefore, who desired the permanent use of the book of 1849, and remonstrated against its revision, had not made themselves familiar with the history of Methodist Hymn Books, or else expected that the inexorable law of change would in this case be set aside. After the separation of the Methodist Episco pal Church, South, its General Conference in 1846 ordered the preparation of a collection specially designed for its members, Which was in some respects a decided improvement on the book of 1830 with supplement. The various smaller bodies of Method ists have employed books prepared by themselves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.