PREFACE. In the following Selection the effort has been to provide, supplemental to the Psalms of David, a Handbook of Household Worship. This object the reader will kindly bear in mind, should he in the following pages miss any of his favourites. There are hymns not a few, which, however suitable to the great congregation, are scarcely adapted to "the church in the house;" and many exquisite passages of sacred poetry are neither "psalms," nor "hymns," nor "spiritual songs." At the same time a rule becomes vexatious when carried out with rigid pedantry; and in order to prevent dis |