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Title: Hymns for Christian Devotion
Especially Adapted to the Universalist Denomination
Author: J.G. Adams
E.H. Chapin
Release Date: January 29, 2007 [EBook #20476]
Language: English
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HYMNS
FOR
CHRISTIAN DEVOTION;
ESPECIALLY ADAPTED TO
THE UNIVERSALIST DENOMINATION
BY J. G. ADAMS AND E. H. CHAPIN.
TWENTY-SECOND EDITION.
BOSTON:
ABEL TOMPKINS.
1853.
PREFACE.
In presenting this work to the public, the compilers would say, that they do not intend it as a rival of any other Hymn Book already in existence; but, if advancement in the light of other good works be allowable, as an improvement on them all. Although evidently designed in one sense for a denomination, they have also intended that it shall answer in some measure the demands of a liberal and progressive Christianity--a Christianity, under whatever name or pretension