An Evangelistic section for Mission Services, and a section for Travellers by Land and Sea, as well as one adapted to Services for the Young at times when the Sunday School Book cannot be used, have been provided, as have also sections for other special services and occasions. Indices of first lines, of authors' names and dates, of texts and subjects illustrated by the hymns, of hymns classified under one section but also suitable for others, or for use at special meetings or services, are appended to all but the cheaper editions. These indices make the contents of the book most easy of reference.

The thanks of the Committee are sincerely tendered to the authors and also to the publishers whose names are given below, for permitting, either without charge, or by purchase. the insertion in this book of original or of copyright hymns. Some hymns--the number is but small-that would also have been inserted, have had to be excluded because the right of publication could not be secured. The Committee has laboured diligently to ensure, as far as practicable, accuracy of versions and of authors' names and dates, and has had the advantage of passing this part of its work under the revision of Mr. W. T. Brooke, who is one of the foremost authorities on hymnology.

The compilers cannot expect to escape criticism; but those who judge of the book from outside the pale of Methodism, and who may be disposed to object to the retention of some hymns which, in their opinion. might have been spared, are reminded that this is a Methodist hymnal, prepared for Methodists who hold, in the main, those views of Christian truth and practice expounded by John Wesley.

From the thousand-voiced heart of the Church' the hymns comprised in this collection have sprung. Though they have originated from minds whose doctrinal beliefs are wide asunder, they are animated by a catholicity of thought and love for the great verities of the Christian religion that have rejoiced and cheered the members of the ' Committee in their work, and have also strengthened the hope and intensified the prayer for the coming of that time when the whole Christian Church shall 'keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.'

The following authors and proprietors have given permission to insert copyright hymns:

Rev. W. Hay Aitken, 258.

Rev. S. Baring-Gould, 569, 941.

Mr. Arthur H. Bateman (for the late Mr. Henry
Bateman), 692.

Rev. C. S. Bere (for Miss Jane M. Campbell), 860.
Miss M. Betham-Edwards, 940.

Bishop E. H. Bickersteth, 12, 413, 437, 438, 735, 849, 891.
Rev. A. G. W. Blunt, 846.

Rev. Dr. Horatius Bonar, 42, 52, 216, 221, 311, 315, 354,
406, 623, 646, 751.

Mrs. E. Baldwin Brown (for the late Rev. J. Baldwin
Brown), 401.

Rev. R. Brown-Borthwick, 733.

Messrs. Burns and Oates (for the late Rev. F. W. Faber), 44, 97, 187, 273, 317, 320, 534, 578, 585, 614, 789, 793.

Mrs. Elisabeth Rundle Charles, 645, 667.

Mrs. B. E. Chater (for the late Rev. F. W. Goadby), 867.

Mrs. Conder (for the late Rev. G. W. Conder), 174.

Rev. Canon Furse (for the late Rev. J. S. B. Monsell),
62, 112, 185, 192, 203, 381, 436, 532, 551, 566, 618,
636, 780, 834, 853, 858, 863, 883.

Miss Gaskell (for the late Rev. W. Gaskell), 630, 644.
Mr. Thomas H. Gill, 3, 87, 966.

Mrs. Elizabeth Ayton Godwin, 382.

Mr. John B. Greenwood, 862.

H. L. L, 285, 499, 509, 515, 521, 550.
Rev. Newman Hall, 922.

Rev. Dr. Hannay (for E. S. A.), 864, 914.

The late Miss M. V. G. Havergal (for the late Miss F.
R. Havergal), 54, 84, 125, 336, 414, 415, 426, 429, 504,
825, 831, 924.

Mr. J. T. Hayes (for the late Dr. J. M. Neale, from
Hymns of the Eastern Church '), 90, 275, 568.

Rev. J. Page Hopps, 502, 553, 845.

Bishop W. W. How, 55, 94, 300, 325, 492, 555, 638, 791, 839, 842, 843.

Miss Geneviève S. Irons, 396.

Rev. W. J. Irons, 305, 496, 787.

Rev. Ebenezer E. Jenkins, 904.

Rev. John Julian, 81.

Messrs. Kegan Paul, Trench & Co. (for the late Archbishop R. C. Trench), 513.

Rev. R. F. Littledale, 838.

Mrs. Mary F. Maude, 430.
Mr. Albert Midlane, 147, 920,

Rev. H. A. Mills (for the late Rev. Edward Caswall).
182, 288, 461.

Messrs. Morgan & Scott (for Miss E. C. Clephane),
103 (from Sacred Songs and Solos').
Mr. C. E. Mudie, 444.

Messrs. Thomas Nelson & Sons (for the late Rev.
James D. Burns), 267, 449, 833.

Rev. Dr. J. H. Newman, 190, 487.

Messrs. Novello, Ewer & Co. (for the late Rev. S.
Childs-Clarke), 855; (for the late Dr. J. M. Neale),
1038; (for the late Dr. Wm. J. Irons), 1040.

Messrs. Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier (for the late
Rev. R. M. McCheyne), 512.

Mr. W. H. Parker, 932.

Rev. E. H. Plumptre, 840, 877.
Rev. Francis Pott, 170.

Archdeacon Sir George Prevost (for the late Rev.
Isaac Williams), 332.

Proprietors of Home Hymn Book, 270.

Mrs. Punshon (for the late Rev. William Morley
Punshon), 250.

The late Mr. George Rawson, 2, 156, 158, 210, 278.
279, 280, 286, 287, 303, 686, 688, 882, 885, 946,
Mr. Frederick Sherlock, 957.

Messrs. Smith, Elder & Co. (for the late Miss Anne
Brontë), 366, 952.

Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, 262.

Rev. Samuel J. Stone, 13, 584, 828.

Rev. T. A. Stowell, 925, 938 (and for the late Rev. Hugh
Stowell), 719, 929..

Rev. Godfrey Thring, 70, 89, 93, 128, 157, 198, 235, 265,
276, 651, 658, 848, 878, 894.
Rev. L. Tuttiett, 547.
Rev. Henry Twells, 251.

Mrs. Lynch (for the late Rev. T. T. Lynch), 48, 91, 129, Miss Anna L. Waring, 217, 653.

282, 536, 652, 664, 666, 670, 721, 949.

Dr. George Macdonald, 617.

Mr. W. J. Mathams, 440.

Rev. Benjamin Waugh, 462.
Rev. Frederick Whitfield, 342, 466.
The late Mr. William Whiting, 888.

The following original hymns have been presented to the Committee: Rev. Edward Boaden, 876, 955, 958.

Rev. Alfred Jones, 837.

(Rev. Alfred Winfield, 850.

Permission to use copyright hymns has been purchased from the following:

Messrs. George Bell & Sons (for Miss A. A. Proctor),
186, 497, 665.

Mr. W. Chatterton Dix, 65, 308, 859, 889.
Messrs. Longman & Co. (for Miss C. Winkworth, from
'Lyra Germanica '), 30, 75, 193, 240, 821, 884.
Messrs. J. Masters & Co. (for Mrs. Cecil F. Alexander),
122, 264, 917, 923, 926 (and for Dr. J. M. Neale), 755,
785, 865.

Miss Annie Matheson, 935, 937.
Proprietors of Chorale Book (for Miss Catherine
Winkworth), 283, 494.

Messrs. Raphael Tuck & Sons (for Miss Annie Mathe-
son), 215.

Rev. Christopher Wordsworth (for the late Bishop Christopher Wordsworth), 74, 116, 178, 231, 274, 586, 832.

If any copyrights have been unintentionally infringed, the Committee sincerely apologises, and will be glad to acknowledge its obligation to authors or proprietors in a future edition of this Hymnal.

INDEX to find Hymns placed under the several Sections of this Hymnal which are suitable
for the various Seasons of the Year, and for Special Services.