Note 1 — Chapter XVI · THE WESLEYS AND THEIR ERA
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“It was their love of social psalmody that made Methodist hymnody what it was, and it was the desire to better parochial psalmody that furnished John Wesley with the original motive of his work in hymnody.” (Dr. Louis F. Benson, in The English Hymn. [New York: Harper and Bros.] Used by permission.)