ABSTRACT
In 1814 Gadsby published <italics>A Selection of Hymns for Public Worship</italics> to counteract what he believed to be Arminian and legalistic tendencies in Isaac Watts's <italics>Psalms and Hymns</italics> and John Rippon's Selection, the hymn books then in use in his Manchester congregation. Hugh Bourne issued <italics>A Collection of Hymns for Camp Meetings, Revivals, &c.</italics> to supplement the main Primitive Methodist hymn book first published in 1824. J. C. Philpot's reviews in <italics>The Gospel Standard</italics>, one of the Strict Baptist periodicals, were frequently essays on a subject, rather than appraisals of the book named at the heading of the review. Henry Allon was minister of the magnificent Union Chapel, Islington, and chairman of the Congregational Union in 1864 and 1881. The Presbyterian Church in England observed the same prohibition of organs as its sister churches in Scotland because it was thought that there was no scripture warrant for such instruments.
