Compiled for the Church of the United Brethren in Christ and published at Dayton, Ohio, this hymnal answered the church’s call for a book fitted to its worship. The hymns are numbered and set to named tunes such as Old Hundred, Duke Street, Rockingham and St. Agnes, with translations from Bernard of Clairvaux alongside Protestant favourites.
A window on the singing of a nineteenth-century Midwestern denomination, useful to hymnologists and church historians. Download the free EPUB.