OR

HYMNS

FOR THE

Sick and Suffering.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION

BY REV. A. C. THOMPSON

Where is God, my Maker,

Who giveth Songs in the Night? - Job xxxv. 10.

S. K. WHIPPLE AND COMPANY,

100 WASHINGTON STREET.

1854.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by

S. K. WHIPPLE AND COMPANY,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts

CAMBRIDGE:

METCALF, AND COMPANY, STEREOTYPERS AND PRINTERS.

PREFACE

TO THE SECOND EDITION.

So far as is known to the compiler, this volume, in its previous edition, was the first of the kind published in this country. Within a few years past, several collections similar in their general character have appeared in England. German literature, too, is any thing but deficient in this department. A specimen may be found in Knapp's Liederschatz, B. II., where it will be seen, that hymns 3057-3081 are expressly for the sick. There have also been, for many years, distinct collections in that language: Lavater's Lieder für Leidende, "Hymns for Sufferers," 1787, 8vo. Auswahl der besten Trostgesänge für Leidende, von J. S. Fest, "Selections of the