Cummings, J. [Adventist] The Pilgrims' Songster: A choice selection of Hymns, designed for Tent, Conference and Private Meetings.

Cummings, J. [Adventist] The Pilgrims' Songster: A choice selection of Hymns, designed for Tent, Conference and Private Meetings. Concord, N. H.: Steam Printing Works of M'Farland & Jenks, 1853. Revised and Corrected. [9849]

Leather spine with plain paper over card, binding scuffed and worn and is separated from the text block. 105 pp. with index plus 36 pp. appendix with index. One leaf of the appendix torn with some loss of words; one blank page filled with pencil notations. Fair. Hardcover.

82 + 28 hymns, words only. Hymnary dot org lists this as an "Adventist (general)" hymnal.

Jonathan Cummings (1817-1894), a disciple of William Miller who, after the "Great Disappointment," set a new date for the advent of Christ - 1854. Cummings was one of the founders of the Advent Christian Association and of The World's Crisis periodical.

With a signed provenance card from the music collection of A. Merril Smoak, Jr., DWS.