ADAPTED TO 411237 SOCIAL, PRIVATE, AND PUBLIC WORSHIP IN THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN TRE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. APPROVED AND AUTHORIZED BY THE To which are added, The Form of Government of the Presbyterian PHILADELPHIA: PRESBYTERIAN BOARD OF PUBLICATION. 1843 Entered according to the Act of Congress in the year 1843, by A. W. MITCHELL, M. D. in the office of the Clerk of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. ADVERTISEMENT. THE want of some improvement in the exist ing Psalmody, and particularly of an enlarged and arranged collection of Hymns, suitable for public and private worship in the Presbyterian Church, has for a considerable time been felt and acknowledged. In the year 1838, a Committee was appointed by the General Assembly, to which was entrusted the preparation of such a collection as would supply the exigency, and, at the same time, such a modification or improvement in the present version of Psalms, as might be found to be practicable. After reporting, from time to time, the progress they had made, the result of their labours is submitted in the present volume. The Psalms have been left without alteration, the Committee believing that it would be extremely difficult to furnish a more acceptable version than that of Watts. The Hymns, as may be seen, have undergone great and essential modifications. Agreeably to an act of the General Assembly in 1842, the Committee was directed, after having respectfully considered any emenda |