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Lady

Hymn Writers

By

MRS. E. R. PITMAN

Author of "Vestina's Martyrdom," "Heroines of the Mission Field,"
"Mission Life in Greece and Palestine,"

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Preface.

HYMNOLOGY is attracting much notice at the present time, but only a student of the subject can realize how much we owe to lady hymn writers. It takes poetic feeling, fervent devotion, and religious experience to make a good hymn, and all these must be conceded to most of our women hymn writers, as we think the specimens here given will prove.

Many friends have helped me by indicating sources from whence information could be gleaned, or by furnishing such information. Among them I must name especially Mrs. C. F. Alexander, wife of the Bishop of Derry; Rev. Andrew Carter, editor of the British Messenger; Rev. C. G. Reskelly of Littledean; Mr. Arthur E. Grant of Burnley; Mr. George Penn of London, who passed away while the book was in the printer's hands; Miss K. Oxborrow of Ipswich; Miss Birkbeck; Mr. E. J. Ensor, and others. I am also greatly indebted to the Rev. W. Garrett Horder's "Hymn Lover," and Schaff's "Library of Religious Poetry," for various particulars concerning hymn writers.

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