PREFACE.
ON May 3rd, 1871, the following Resolutions were passed by the GENERAL SYNOD
OF THE CHURCH OF IRELAND:
I." That a Committee be appointed to take into consideration the subject of Church Hymnody, and to report to the General Synod of 1872."
2." That it be an instruction to the Committee to confer with the Committee of the Christian Knowledge Association, already for the past six months engaged in the preparation of an enlarged and revised edition of the Church Hymnal."
The former Committee having been re- appointed by the Synod of 1872, continued its labours, in conjunction with the Committee of the Christian Knowledge Association, and was enabled to lay the present volume before the General Synod of 1873, by which the following Resolution was passed:-*
" That the Report of the Hymnal Committee be adopted; and that the Synod do permit the use, in the Public Worship of the Church of Ireland, of the Hymnal as presented by the Committee."
The Edition, which is thus recommended, contains 241 of the Hymns which were included in the preceding editions of the Church Hymnal, and comprises 39 metrical versions of Psalms, selected with much care,
Acknowledgments are gratefully tendered to the following, for permission kindly given to insert copyright Hymns or Translations, several of which were published in the earlier editions of this book:
Mrs. C. F. Alexander, for Hymns 128, 205, 327, 333, 462, 463, 464.
The late Dean Alford, for permission( used in the earlier editions of this work) to print his Hymns 371, 429.
The Rev. Sir Henry Baker, Bart., for Hymns 197, 237, 295, 339, 354, 430, 435, 447.
Rev. R. H. Baynes, for Hymn 365.
Rev. E. Bickersteth, for Hymns 108 and 369.
The Rev. Dr. Bonar, for Hymns 72, 78, 92, 134, 136, 137, 265, 370, 390, 394, 421.
Mrs. Bond- Faussett, for Hymns 155, 409.
Miss Jane Borthwick, for Hymn 106.
Mrs. Buckoll, for the use of Hymn 211, which( altered in other books) is here printed as it was written by her husband.
Rev. Edward Caswall, for Hymns 20, 67, 173, 315.
Rev. E. Dayman, for Hymn 410.
Sir Edward Denny, Bart., for Hymns 178, 287, 328, 364.
Mr. W: Chatterton Dix, for Hymn 100.
Rev. John Ellerton, for Hymn 35.
The Executors of the late Very Rev. F. W. Faber, for Hymns 15, 175, 356, 398.
Mr. J. Montgomery Foster, for the Hymns by the late Mr. James Montgomery, Nos,
107, 111, 139, 162, 169, 267, 268, 284, 288, 350, 360, 400, 416, 418, 465.
The Executors of the late Mrs. Gilbert( Miss Anne Taylor), for Hymn 461.
Rev. Canon Walsham W. How, for Hymns 31, 236, 347, 423.
The Lord Bishop of Lincoln, for Hymns 32, 186, 422.
Mrs. Jemima Luke, for Hymn 459.
Mrs. E. Maxwell Lyte, for the use of the compositions and translations of the late Rev. H. Lyte, Nos. 14, 41, 123, 249, 278, 387, 441.
The Rev. Frederick Mant, for Bishop Mant's Hymns 103, 174, 224, 344.
Mr. R. Massie, for Hymn 8.
Mrs. Maude, for Hymn 376.
Mr. G. Morrish, for permission, at a nominal charge, to include Miss Anne Houlditch's Hymn, No. 473.
Mr. Marcus Moses, for the Hymns written by the late Mr. Kelly.
Another Hymn has been unavoidably substituted for No. 42, which, being partly copyright, the Association could not obtain permission to print in the form proposed,