Hymns for Christian Devotion — 1846 first edition

The first edition of the hymnal that defined mid-century Universalist worship, edited by John G. Adams and Edwin H. Chapin (see the 1865 printing in this collection for a full account of the book). Comparing this first issue with the later printings shows the denomination's standard hymnody essentially fixed for a generation from the moment of publication.

(Note: this summary was automatically generated and may be inaccurate.)