Wesley's A Collection of Hymns, for Use of the People Called Methodists - Timeline Event
Time Period
1780
Description
John Wesley’s A Collection of Hymns, for Use of the People called Methodists (1780) became the definitive hymnbook for Methodists. Wesley had compiled his first hymnbook in 1737 (Collection of Psalms and Hymns while in the colony of Georgia, but desired an improved hymnbook for Methodists that was "not too large, that it may be cheap and portable; nor too small, that it may contain a sufficient variety for all ordinary occasions." It contained 560 hymns when first published in 1780 and an additional 209 hymns were added in 1830. It includes popular hymns, like "O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing" and "Come, Sinners, to the Gospel Feast."
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Methodist/Pietist Family: Other ARDA LinksMethodist/Pietist Family: Religious Family Tree
Biographies
Wesley, JohnRelated Dictionary Terms
Hymn, Methodist-Pietist Family, Wesley, John (1703-1791)Photographs
A Collection of Hymns, title page- Internet Archive
John Wesley portrait- Library of Congress, LC-USZ62-5824
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http://www.umcdiscipleship.org/resources/1780-a-collection-of-hymns-for-the-use-of-the-people-called-methodists (Link no longer online)Web Page Contributor
Benjamin T. GurrentzAffliated with: Pennsylvania State University, Ph.D. in Sociology
