PREFACE. FREQUENT enquiries for a Temperance Hymn Book have led to this compilation. Wesley said years ago, it was a pity Satan should have all the best tunes. The same may as properly be said of songs, which have contributed much to intemperance. Surely it is time that both music and song which have been thus perverted, should at once be rescued to the aid of temperance. The numerous beautiful poetical effusions on the subject, now enable us to present a valuable compi. lation. It is hoped that it will prove acceptable and useful to the American public;—valuable not only in temperance meetings, but in families, forming the minds and hearts of children and youth to an abhorrence of those intoxicating drinks, which have slain their millions. NEW-YORK, April 1, 1841. TEMPERANCE HYMN BOOK, 1 PERFECTIONS OF GOD. PART T The perfections of God, our confidence in worke of Moral Reform.. : 1 C 6s. & 4s. YOME thou Almighty King, Father all glorious, O'er all victorious, 2 Jesus our Lord arise, 3 To the great One in three, Madans Coli, 1ATHER, how wide thy glory shines! FHow high thy wonders rise! Known thro' the earth by thousand signs, 2 But when we view thy strange design, 3-Here the whole.Deity is known; 4 Now the full glories of the Lamb, Bright seraphs learn Immanuel's name, 5 O may I bear some humble part, Wonder and joy shall tune my heart, Its chief beloved chose; And bade him raise our ruin'd race, 2 His hand no thunder bears, No terror clothes his brow; To fiercer flames below. 3 'Twas mercy fill'd the throne, When Christ was sent with pardon down |