Hymns of the Spirit
Hymns of the Spirit (1864). This was the title of a major anthology edited by the Unitarian ministers Samuel Longfellow* and Samuel Johnson*, published at Boston, Massachusetts, in 1864. It contained 717 hymns, arranged in two principal sections: 1. Worship; 2. God and His Manifestations.
The first was divided into:
Usual Public Worship
Special Occasions.
The second was divided as follows:
God in Himself;
God in Nature;
God in the Soul;
God in the Life;
God in Humanity.
The subdivisions of the last of these give an idea of the character of the book as whole: ‘In All Ages’; ‘The Hebrew Prophets’; ‘Christianity’; ‘The Protestant Reformation’; ‘The Pilgrim Fathers’; ‘The Present Age’; ‘The...
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