Early Collections of English Hymnals for Lutherans in America

Individual Efforts

3.1       A Collection of Evangelical Hymns. Made from Different Authors and Collections For the English Lutheran Church in New York By George Strebeck. New York: Printed by John Tiebout (Homer’s Head) No 358 Pearl Street, 1797.

Title page missing, Advertisement signed by George Strebeck (1797). 249 hymns, Index, Liturgy, Epistles and Gospels of the English Lutheran Church of New York. To which is added the Augsburg Confession of Faith. New York: Printed by John Tiebout (Homer’s-Head) No. 358, Earl Street, 1797.

To peruse online, go to hymnary.org; at the search prompt, type in CEHD1797 and click on “go”. LIST OF CONTENTS ONLY; NO PAGE SCANS OR TEXTS

3.0      A Hymn and Prayer-Book for Use of such Lutheran Churches as use the English Language.

Collected by John C. Kunze, D. D. Senior of the Lutheran Clergy in the State of New-York.

New-York – Printed and sold by Hurtin and Commardinger, No. 450, Pearl-Street. [With Privilege of Copy Right.] 1795.

Includes a preface by Kunze, 237 hymns (texts only), a Litany, the Golden Alphabet, a cradle hymn, tune index, title index, liturgy, Epistles and Gospels for the year, Luther’s Catechism, Fundamental Questions, Order of Salvation, Christian Duties, A Short Account of the Christian Religion, A Short Account of the Lutheran Church, The Seven Penitential Psalms, Prayers.