Himes & Wilson. A Selection of Hymns, from the Best Authors, Baptist "New Lights"

Himes, Paul; Wilson, Jonathan. A Selection of Hymns, from the Best Authors; By Elders Paul Himes and Jonathan Wilson. Greenfield, Mass: Clark and Hunt | (C. J. Newcomb, Printer, Deerfield), 1818. [10431] Full leather, front board detached, spine ends chipped with loss, binding worn and a bit soiled with a partial layer of what might be whitewash, 13.5 x 8.5 cm (5 1/2 x 3 1/2) inches, lacks all blanks. 360 pp., text complete and good plus. Several signatures on the end papers/final text leaf of the family of Ebenezer King. Good. Full leather. Shaw & Shoemaker 44320. "Baptist congregations in this period had an active devotional life beyond Sunday worship. Evangelistic meetings, revivals, conference meetings, and social worship all called for less formal hymnody, often characterized as 'spiritual songs.' Collections of these texts, often linked with folk tunes, were also used for services in churches that worshiped in a more popular style...The continuance of the awakenings is reflec