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Hymns

OF THE

MILLENNIAL DAWN

WITH MUSIC

A CHOICE COLLECTION OF “PSALMS AND HYMNS AND SPIRITUAL

SONGS” TO AID GOD’S PEOPLE IN SINGING AND MAKING

MELODY IN THEIR HEARTS UNTO THE LORD.

“O come, let us sing unto the Lord:

Let us make a joyful noise

Unto the rock of ourSalvatation.”

“My mouth shall praiseThee with joyful lips!”

PSALM 95:1; 63:5

WATCH TOWER

BIBLE AND TRACT SOCIETY

ALLEGHENY, PA,U.S.A.

1905

To the King of kings and Lord of lords:

IN THE INTEREST OF

HIS CONSECRATED “SAINTS,”

WAITING FOR THE ADOPTION,

AND OF

“ALL THAT IN EVERY PLACE CALL UPON THE LORD”—

“THE HOUSEHOLD OF FAITH,”

AND OF

THE GROANING CREATION TRAVAILING AND WAITING

FOR THE MANIFESTATION OF THE SONS OF GOD,

This Work is Dedicated.

“To make all see what is the fellowship of the mystery which from the beginning

of the world hath been hid in God.” “Wherin He hat abounded toward

us in all wisdom and prudence, having made known unto us the mystery

of His will, according to His good pleasure which He

hath purposed

fulness of

the times He might gather together in one all things

under Christ.”—Eph. 3:4, 5, 9; 1:8-10

1905

WATCH TOWER

BIBLE AND TRACT SOCIETY

ALLEGHENY, PA.,U.S.A.

in Himself; that in the dispensation of the

Prefatory

e published in 1890, with several more recent editions, a volume entitled “Poems and

Hymns of Millennial Dawn,” without music. The same collection of hymns with the

music is now urgently needed, and therefore appears in this volume. The poems,

although highly prized, are omitted for greater convenience in size. We have preserved the same

alphabetical order, because so many of our readers have the older book; and where a different

tune is given from that originally suggested the latter is indicated by Alt. for alternative tune, with

the number where that tune can be found.

Both words and music are credited to the same class to whom the work is dedicated—to the Lord

and his faithful people, “the Saints.” The authors of many of the best of them are unknown to us,

and, besides, slight changes have been made in the phraseology and sentiment of quite a number,

which we could not be sure their original authors would approve, and to give personal credit to

less than one half would seem invidious. To all of these dear “Saints” of all ages we therefore give

united and hearty thanks for the blessings which they, as the Lord’s servants and handmaidens,

have bestowed upon their fellow members of “the Church of the Firstborn, whose names are

written in Heaven.” Most of them died long ago: their abundant reward will be of the Lord in the

resurrection.

That the collection is thoroughly undenominational, unsectarian, will be manifest to those

recognizing the fact that it includes the choicest old hymns and tunes used by all denominations.

Although we have gathered far and near and winnowed carefully we cannot hope to have gotten

all the golden grains, though we do hope that no chaff can be found. The collection is for the

Church, for “believers” “reconciled,” and hence contains none of the “sinner’s” hymns, such as

“Come, ye sinners poor and needy,” because wilful sinners are in no sense members of the “body”

of Christ, nor are those who have not yet accepted the Lord as their

Saviour.

Those who will feel the deepest interest in this collection, and whose sentiments will be most fully

voiced in its verses, will undoubtedly be those in fullest degree of sympathy with the divine plan of

the ages, as set forth in the several volumes of Millennial Dawn , the eyes of whose

understandings have been opened to the clearer, purer light now shining from our great

Redeemer’s cross, showing thefulness and the completeness of his salvation.

In fact, this volume, while not numbered as one of the volumes of the Millennial Dawn series, is

designed to be a companion volume, a melodious

accompaniment to the

“new song,” “the song of Moses and the Lamb” (the grand harmony of the law and the gospel), as

presented in the regular Dawn series.

Let the music of God’s good and great plan ring through your hearts and lives, dear fellow-

pilgrims and fellow-members of the “royal priesthood,” so that every day and every hour shall be

filled with joy and praise and thankfulness. And that this little volume may assist in deepening the

work of grace in your hearts is our hope and prayer.

WATCH TOWER BIBLE AND TRACT SOCIETY,

ALLEGHENY, PA.,U.S.A.

JULY, 1905

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