THE PARISH HYMNAL. AFTER THE ORDER OF THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. LONDON: BELL AND DALDY, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 1873. MARVARE COLLEGE LIBRARY FROM THE ESTATE OF PEV CHARLES HUTCHINS ev 370 .M67 P3 CHISWICK PRESS-PRINTED BY WHITTINGHAM AND WILKINS, TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE. TH PREFACE. 'HE PARISH HYMNAL claims, above those Hymnals which have preceded it, these advantages only : i. It is the latest; ii. The simplest ; iii. The shortest extant. I. Being latest it can use all that is best in those already published; which it does, by the kind permission of their Editors; and it can avoid (as I hope it has done) some of the errors into which others have fallen. II. Its simplicity of form it owes entirely to its conformity with the order of the "Book of Common Prayer." The monthly provision for daily Morning and Evening Praise, which we find in the Psalms; with the weekly adjustment of its own subject to the teaching of each Sunday, as found in the Collects, Epistles, and Gospels: these are the simple clue to the arrangement of this Hymnal. Two hymns for each day of the month; two at least for each Sunday and Holy day throughout the year. For the twenty-five Sundays after Trinity, there is only one distinctive hymn special for each Sunday, whose subject-always a practical one-is drawn from the Gospel or Epistle for the day. But other hymns are suggested as suitable, which, although already sung in their own proper place, are not in their nature out of place at any time of the Church's year, and whose doctrinal truths can well bear re |