Excerpt from Wesleyan Hymnology, or a Companion to the Wesleyan Hymn Book: Comprising Remarks, Critical, Explanatory and Cautionary, Designed to Promote the More Profitable Use of the VolumeFrom a very early age, the writer of these pages has been familiar with the Wesleyan Hymn Book: and as soon as he was capable of discriminating between such poetical com positions as are truly excellent and worthy of admiration, and such as are of an inferior order and more fit to be consigned to oblivion, he began to entertain a high opinion of the work. He has now been employed as a minister of the church of Christ for upwards.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.