PRAISE AND THANKS NUMBER ONE A HYMN BOOK FOR THE YOUNG PEOPLE'S CHRISTIAN UNION OF THE UNIVERSALIST CHURCH "Enter into his gates with thanksgiving and into his courts BOSTON UNIVERSALIST PUBLISHING HOUSE 1913 513 خالا 19:3 Copyright, 1895, BY UNIVERSALIST PUBLISHING HOUSE. Stanbope Press F. H. GILSON COMPANY BOSTON, U.S.A. PREFACE. The desire of the Publishing House has been to combine in PRAISE AND THANKS, convenience in size, reasonableness in price, and a sufficient number and variety of hymns to make a book available and satisfactory for our YOUNG PEOPLE'S CHRISTIAN UNION. This desire we feel has been met in the book now issued. If, in years to come, there should be an emphatic call for another volume, similar in plan and purpose, the Publishing House would consider the publication of PRAISE AND THANKS, number two. We count ourselves happy in this opportunity of publicly expressing our thanks to the following friends for assistance cheerfully and generously rendered: to Mr. Leo R. Lewis, to whose supervision has been submitted all contributions of original music; to Mr. Flint M. Bissell for information as to authorship of hymns; to Rev. Messrs. E. J. Felt, C. R. Tenney, L. E. Pease and L. Weston Attwood, for introductory services and prayers; for cordial permission accorded us by Rev. Drs. Edwin P. Parker and J. E. Rankin and Rev. Theodore C. Williams, for use of their compositions. We appreciate also the interest of our young people evidenced in their preparation and contribution of music and words for the completion of the book. That these hymns may sing themselves into the hearts of our young people, and that the sentiments therein expressed may be manifested in nobler and more truly Christian lives is the sincere wish of the Editor, BOSTON, MASS. GRACE F. WHITE. PRAISE AND THANKS. OPENING SERVICE. Singing of several hymns. Kesponsive Reading. ALL.-Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the Lord: and in his law doth he meditate day and night. O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! Who hast set thy glory above the heavens. When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained, what is man, that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honor. O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth. Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: who forgiveth all thine iniquities: who healeth all thy diseases: who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with loving-kindness and tender mercies. |