Physical description

Hard cover book. Church Praise
Author. Corporate author The Presbyterian Church of England.
Composer: Sir Herbert Stanley Oakeley
Editor. Edward John Hopkins
Publisher: James Nisbet & Co.
Date: 1885-1886
Further Information: No spine, book of a light navy cover with the cover depicting a roof of a church with the title. The damaged spine has no Library label.

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

Fly paper has an oval stamp that reads R.A. Philips Book seller Warrnambool

Summary

Church Praise was the congregational hymnal of the Presbyterian Church of England, which formed in 1876 when the English congregations of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland merged with other English Presbyterian congregations. The title page reads “Part I – Complete Metrical Psalms; Part II – Hymns”, which means the book contains the whole Psalter in singable rhymed verse, followed by a section of hymns. It was sold through the church’s Publications Committee, as the title page confirms. The 1883 first edition was a larger work that included a third part, the Bible Psalter, with music arranged and partly composed by Sir Herbert Oakeley.