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THE STORY OF THE HYMNS AND TUNES

by

THERON BROWN and HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH







    _Multae terricolis linguae, coelestibus una._

     _Ten thousand, thousand are their tongues,
             But all their joys are one._




New York, 1906



[Frontispiece: Thomas Ken]



CONTENTS.

  PREFACE,                                           v

  INTRODUCTION,                                     ix

  1. HYMNS OF PRAISE AND WORSHIP,                    1

  2. SOME HYMNS OF GREAT WITNESSES,                 53

  3. HYMNS OF CHRISTIAN DEVOTION AND EXPERIENCE,   100

  4. MISSIONARY HYMNS,                             165

  5. HYMNS OF SUFFERING AND TRUST,                 190

  6. CHRISTIAN BALLADS,                            237

  7. OLD REVIVAL HYMNS,                            262

  8. SUNDAY SCHOOL HYMNS,                          293

  9. PATRIOTIC HYMNS,                              321

  10. SAILOR'S HYMNS,                              353

  11. HYMNS OF WALES,                              378

  12. FIELD HYMNS,                                 409

  13. HYMNS, FESTIVAL AND OCCASIONAL,              458

  14. HYMNS OF HOPE AND CONSOLATION,               509

  INDEXES OF NAMES, TUNES, AND HYMNS,              543


LIST OF PORTRAITS.

  THOMAS KEN,                             Frontispiece
  OLIVER HOLDEN,                         Opp. page  14
  JOSEPH HAYDN,                              "      30
  CHARLES WESLEY,                            "      46
  MARTIN LUTHER,                             "      62
  LADY HUNTINGDON,                           "      94
  AUGUSTUS MONTAGUE TOPLADY,                 "     126
  THOMAS HASTINGS,                           "     142
  FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL,                   "     158
  REGINALD HEBER,                            "     174
  GEORGE JAMES WEBB,                         "     190
  JOHN WESLEY,                               "     206
  JOHN B. DYKES,                             "     222
  ELLEN M.H. GATES,                          "     254
  JAMES MONTGOMERY,                          "     286
  FANNY J. CROSBY,                           "     302
  SAMUEL F. SMITH,                           "     334
  WILLIAM B. BRADBURY,                       "     366
  ISAAC WATTS,                               "     398
  GEORGE FREDERICK HANDEL,                   "     414
  PHILIP DODDRIDGE,                          "     446
  LOWELL MASON,                              "     478
  CARL VON WEBER,                            "     494
  HORATIUS BONAR,                            "     526




PREFACE.


When the lapse of time and accumulation of fresh material suggested the
need of a new and revised edition of Mr. Hezekiah Butterworth's _Story
of the Hymns_, which had been a popular text book on that subject for
nearly a generation, the publishers requested him to prepare such a
work, reviewing the whole field of hymnology and its literature down to
date. He undertook the task, but left it unfinished at his lamented
death, committing the manuscript to me in his last hours to arrange and
complete.

To do this proved a labor of considerable magnitude, since what had been
done showed evidence of the late author's failing strength, and when, in
a conference with the publishers, it was proposed to combine the two
books of Mr. Butterworth, the _Story of the Hymns_ and the _Story of the
Tunes_, in one volume, the task was doubled.

The charming popular style and story-telling gift of the well-known
compiler of these books had kept them in demand, the one for thirty and
the other for fifteen years, but later information had discounted some
of their historic and biographical matter, and, while many of the
monographs were too meagre, others were unduly long. Besides, the _Story
of the Tunes_, so far from being the counterpart of the _Story of the
Hymns_, bore no special relationship to it, only a small portion of its
selections answering to any in the hymn-list of the latter book. For a
personal friend and practically unknown writer, to follow Mr.
Butterworth, and "improve" his earlier work to the more modern
conditions, was a venture of no little difficulty and delicacy. The
result is submitted as simply a conscientious effort to give the best of
the old with the new.

So far as was possible, matter from the two previous books, and from the
crude manuscript, has been used, and passages here and there
transcribed, but so much of independent plan and original research has
been necessary in arranging and verifying the substance of the chapters
that the _Story of the Hymns and Tunes_ is in fact a new volume rather
than a continuation.