Beman, Nathan S. S. Sacred Lyrics: or Select Hymns, particularly adapted to Revivals of Religion, and intended as a Supplement to Watts. Troy: N. Tuttle, Printer, 1832. First Edition. [11131]
Dark green leather with gilt borders to the boards, gilt decoration & titles to spine, joints fine, tight. "The property of Marion Seeley, Bought Dec. 15th, 1834 price 44 cts" in brown ink on the ffep. [i]-xiv, [15]-312 generally clean pp. Lacks the rear free end papers (blanks), some foxing and smudges, a couple of leaves with loss of a corner tip, some creased corners. Very good. Hardcover.
330 hymns, 7 doxologies; words only, no music. Plus indices.
The scarce hymnal compiled by the co-worker and host of Charles G. Finney in the revival at Troy, NY in 1826. "Early in the autumn of this year 1826, I accepted an invitation from Rev. Beman and his Session to labor with them in Troy for the revival of religion. At Troy I spent the fall and winter and the revival was powerful in that city." - The Memoirs of Charles G. Finney, chapter 16.
Nathan Sidney Smith Beman, D.D. (1785-1871), born at New Lebanon, N. Y.; died at Carbondale, Illinois. Dr. Beman was a Presbyterian minister who was educated at Middlebury College. He became pastor of a Congregational Church in Portland, Me., in 1810; a few years later he became a missionary to Georgia, and in 1822 was settled as the pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Troy, N. Y., where he continued for forty years. He was moderator of the General Assembly in 1831 and became the principle leader of the “New School” Presbyterians in 1837. Dr. Beman was a controversial figure, a friend of Charles Finney (whom he invited to preach in his pulpit), and a warm advocate for temperance, missions, and revivals. “The American Board [A. B. C. F. M.] owed its success largely to the influence and labors of Dr. Beman and his associates.” – M’Clintock & Strong.
See Roberts, Revival Literature, 438-440.
With a signed provenance card from the music collection of A. Merril Smoak, Jr., DWS.
