Worcester, Samuel. Select Hymns: The Third Part of Christian Psalmody; with Directions for Musical Expression. Boston: Published by Samuel T. Armstrong, and Crocker & Brewster, 1823. Stereotype Edition. [9821]
Red leather spine, plain boards, scuffed and worn, joints sometime glued, all intact. 15 x 9 cm (5 7/8 x 3 1/2 inches), many contemporary newspaper clippings pasted to the end papers or laid in, by authors such as Mrs. Sigourney, Mrs. Hemans, on motherhood and the death of children. 156 pp., complete. Text somewhat shaken, edge-worn, with foxing. Fair. Hardcover.
Samuel Worcester, D.D. (1770-1821), born at Hollis, New Hampshire, graduated at Dartmouth College with the highest honors in 1795. “[In 1797] he was ordained pastor of the Church at Fitchburg, a society which was cursed by all the evils of the Half-Way Covenant – including among its members Deists, Arians, Universalists, and the openly immoral. With decision, inflexible integrity, and solemn faithfulness to truth and duty, Worcester opened the batteries of the Gospel upon the errors and sins that called for rebuke. As a result, in the ensuing spring, the covenant was revised and an orthodox creed adopted, and in 1799 an extensive revival occurred.” – M’Clintock & Strong.
With a signed provenance card from the music collection of A. Merril Smoak, Jr., DWS.