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LEADER: 03431cam 2200397Ia 4500
001 9677251
003 OCoLC
005 20010703144237.0
008 830707s1920 nyuc 000 0 eng d
035 $a34782
040 $aICW$cICW$dOCL$dBZM
049 $aBZMW
090 $aPS3569.S56$b.S67 1920
100 1 $aSimpson, A. B.$q(Albert B.)
245 10 $aSongs of the spirit :$bhitherto unpublished poems and a few old favorites /$cby A.B. Simpson.
260 $aNew York :$bChristian Alliance Publishing Co.,$cc1920.
300 $a160 p. :$bill., port. ;$c20 cm.
500 $aContents listed [titles and pages for 117 hymns without music, in text accompanied by topical running and text headers, occasional date and circumstance of composition]: p. 7-10.
500 $aForeword: "Since his home-going on October twenty-ninth, many of [A.B. Simpson's] friends have requested that his poetical writings be collected and published. The committee having in preparation his memoirs found a large number of manuscripts ... Mrs. Simpson and her family ... put all of them at our disposal. Selections ... made from these new hymns which ... with some ... gems ... familiar through ... his periodical, 'The Alliance Weekly,' ... now given to a wider circle. There remain enough ... for a second volume ..." (signed: The Editor. Nyack-on-the-Hudson)--p. 5-6.
500 $a"Some ... poems ... written in Jerusalem, others on the Red Sea, and still others in the Far East during his firs missionary journey; while ... 'Safe Home' ... as he neared harbor after girdling the South American continent. Many of ... hymns ... under ... preparation of his great sermons ... sung to his own music from manuscript on Sunday mornings in the Gospel Tabernacle, New York City ... rarely failed to send ... Christmas greeting or New Year message in song; nor ... his beloved school, the Missionary Institute, Nyack ... without a Class Song The last hymn ... gave us, 'The Whole Bible to the Whole Wide World,' was written for the Class of 1919 ..."--Foreword [ctd.]
500 $aPortrait of Albert Benjamin Simpson (1844-1919)--facing t.p.
500 $aRed linen binding with double stamped border front and back; title and author in gilt (separated by short gilt rule) on front and spine; Latin cross (corners with crucifix, crown, cruet and chalice, center with monogram "C and MA" [Christian and Missionary Alliance]) stamped in relief on front; spine with publisher's monogram stamped in gold.
590 $aFrank J. Metcalf's bookplate on outer front endpapers.
505 20 $g[Topical text and running headers:]$tAspiration --$tJoy and victory --$tThe Christ life --$tSalvation --$tThe Holy Spirit --$tConsecration --$tConfidence and trust --$tPrayer--$tService --$tThe name of Jesus --$tMissions --$tThe Lord's coming --$tClass songs --$tSeason songs --$tSpecial songs.
610 20 $aChristian and Missionary Alliance$xHymns.
650 0 $aHymns, English$zUnited States$y20th century.
650 0 $aMissions$xHymns.
650 0 $aRevival hymns.
650 0 $aSchool songbooks.
700 1 $aMetcalf, Frank J.$q(Frank Johnson),$d1865-1945.
710 2 $aChristian Alliance Publishing Co.$4pbl.
710 2 $aChristian and Missionary Alliance.
710 2 $aGospel Tabernacle (New York, N.Y.)
791 2 $aSTH Hymnological Collections.
791 2 $aSTH Nutter-Metcalf Hymnological Collection.
791 2 $aSTH Missions Collections.