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Hymn-book War; for there you will find that General Douglas, at the head of an army of negroes, made a desperate charge on Mason and
Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive Alf Burnett
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However, in this total destitution of external excitements for my soul, I opened the Hymn-book, as it were by chance; and found in it, to my astonishment, some songs which actually, though under a fantastic form, appeared to shadow what I felt.
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Every Sunday night all the negroes who were beyond infancy assembled in the dining-room for Scripture readings expounded by her own pleasant voice, and for recitations in the Shorter Catechism and Village Hymn-book.
Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life, 1910
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Another important resolution related to the Hymn-book; "that a committee of three be appointed by the chair, to revise the present hymn-book, and present the same to the Bishops to be reviewed by them, and then to the book committee in Philadelphia, with instructions to publish it as soon as practicable."
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Barney at the table upon which were the Bible and the Hymn-book.
The Doctor : a Tale of the Rockies Ralph Connor 1898
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The pews were strewn with white hymn-sheets, which lay all over the chapel like snow in Salmon, and which contained special spiritual songs more stirring in their character than the contents of the Hymn-book; these hymns the
The Farringdons Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler 1894
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Two years later a "Lutheran Hymn-book" appeared, containing an un-Lutheran order of service, the Union formula of distribution, a rationalistic order for the celebration of the Lord's
American Lutheranism Volume 1: Early History of American Lutheranism and The Tennessee Synod 1894
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As already mentioned, he had the joy of seeing, in 1534, the first entire translation of the Old as well as the New Testament made public, and a new edition of the Wittenberg Hymn-book appeared in the following year.
Luther and Other Leaders of the Reformation 1823-1886 1883
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"Right in there the Preacher, with Bible and Hymn-book, stood"
Farm Ballads Will Carleton 1878
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Bludger, one of the most depraved and regardless of the whole wicked crew of the Blackbird, -- "hullo, if here isn't old Captain Hymn-book!"
In the Wrong Paradise Andrew Lang 1878
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