printed at Winchester, Virginia. Later editions were printed by Joseph Funk and Sons, Singers Glen, Virginia, while the sixth edition was printed in 1880 by Mennonite Publishing Co., Elkhart, Indiana.
From this last edition the German hymns in the appendix were eliminated and sixty-five English hymns substituted. The committee selected for compiling the new list were Emanuel Suter, Michael Shank, and John S. Coffman.[1]
"The Harmonica Sacra," a standard work on sacred music was edited and first printed on the press of Joseph Funk at Singers Glen, Virginia, in the year 1847. By 1870 this work had run through seventeen editions, and the total number sold by that time was 80,000 copies.
In the year 1915 the eighteenth edition of this work was published by Mennonite Publishing House, Scottdale, Pennsylvania, by Noah Blosser, Dale Enterprise, Va., a relative of Joseph Funk.[2]
- ↑ It should be mentioned that this committee while occupied with its work had one original hymn donated to this list by Mrs. Annie L. Price, the wife of the Presbyterian minister then at Mt. Clinton, Va. This hymn is being sung far and wide throughout our Mennonite congregations in the United States and Canada. It is No. 49 in Church and Sunday School Hymnal:
"Above the trembling elements,
Above life's restless sea,
Dear Saviour, lift my spirit up
Oh, lift me up to thee." - ↑ The impulse and love for sacred song given from the use of this book went forth as a great wave among thousands of people in a number of the eastern states. Harvest hands and haymakers spent the noon hour singing. Sunday afternoon gatherings of the young people in homes, school houses, and churches were en-
