ca. 227 short hymns ; without music ; each headed by title and short quote of scripture.

Includes indexes : "Index of first lines" -- p. 274-281 ; "Index of subjects" -- p. [282]-288.

Copyright statement : dated 1853 -- t.p. verso.

"Cambridge [Mass.] : Metcalf and Company, Stereotypers and printers" -- t.p. verso.

T.p. quote : "Where is my God, my Maker, who giveth songs in the night?" (Job xxxv.10).

"Preface to the second edition" : "So far as it is known to the compiler, this volume, in its previous edition, was the first of the kind published in this country ... the more usual and more important circumstances and spiritual necessities of the sickroom have been specifically remembered ... A passage of scripture ... is prefixed to each hymn ..." -- p. [iii]-v.

"Introductory address to the invalid" -- p. [vi]-xvi.

Includes poetry by Charles Wesley, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Luther, Doddridge, and Watts.

Ms. annotations by Prof. Bird.