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The

Methodist Protestant
Church Hymnal-

Containing also the Ritual
and Selections from Scrip-
ture for Responsive Reading

Board of Publication of the
Methodist Protestant Church
Baltimore and Pittsburgb
1902

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

FROM THE ESTATE OF
REV. CHARLES HUTCHINS
MAY 24, 1939

COPYRIGHT, 1901, BY

THE BALTIMORE BOOK DIRECTORY OF THE METHODIST PROTESTANT CHURCH

AND

THE PITTSBURGH BOOK DIRECTORY OF THE METHODIST PROTESTANT CHURCH

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Stanbope Press

F. H. GILSON COMPANY

THIS

HIS Hymnal has been compiled by the following Committee appointed by the General Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church, held at Atlantic City, N. J., May 18-26, 1900:

Rev. T. H. LEWIS, D.D.,

Rev. S. S. FISHER,

Rev. M. D. HELMICK, D.D.,

Hon. J. W. HERING,

WILLIAM WALLS, Esq.

The Book is successor to the following:

Hymn Book, compiled by Mr. John J. Harrod, 1828.

Hymn Book of the Methodist Protestant Church, compiled by Rev. T. H. Stockton by authority of the General Conference and published in 1838.

Hymn Book of the Methodist Protestant Church, compiled by Rev. Josiah Varden, Rev. J. J. Murray, Rev. E. Y. Reese, Luther Martin, Esq., and Edmund G. Waters, Esq., by authority of the General Conference, and published in 1859.

Hymn Book, compiled by Revs. George Brown, Joel Dalbey, S. W. Widney, J. M. Mayall, and A. H. Bassett, by authority of the delegates of the Northern and Western Conferences of the Methodist Protestant Church, and published in 1860.

The Voice of Praise, compiled by Rev. Alexander Clark, Rev. I. W. McKeever, William Rinehart, Esq., and J. A. Dohrman, Esq., by authority of the General Conference of the Methodist Church, and published in 1872.

The Tribute of Praise, a book prepared under the editorship of Dr. Eben Tourjee and adopted for use in the Methodist Protestant Church by the following Committee appointed by the General Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church in 1880: L. W. Bates, S. B. Southerland, H. F. Zollickoffer, J. Cowl, F. H. Collier, P. Kiel, Jr., I. W. McKeever, E. S. Brown, J. M. Duncan, D. Trueman, F. M. Durbin, J. L. Michaux, F. H. M. Henderson, J. H. Robinson, A. H. Bassett. The book was introduced in 1882, and was the first book containing both hymns and tunes to be used by the Church.