determine whether a given hymn has been taken from the manuscript collection or from its original source, the Moravian hymn-book; since the three different texts exhibit no important variants. Nevertheless, the frequent appearance in the Saur edition of variant readings introduced by Caspar Weiss and George Weiss, seems to indicate that with respect to even these hymns, the manuscript collection served Schultz as both a standard and a source.
The hymns comprising the printed hymn-book number 917. Of these 591 were contained in the parent collection made by Caspar Weiss (1709). Of the remaining 326, 165 were included in the addition made to the collection of 1709 by George Weiss. There were therefore 161 hymns incorporated into the Saur edition which were not contained in the manuscript hymn collection in either its first or its second form, and which must therefore have been obtained from other sources.
We list here the hymn writers of the Schwenkf elders in America. Weiss, Hoffmann and Wagner wrote hymns abroad as well as in this country.
| George Weiss, | 1687-1740. |
| Balthaser Hoffmann, | 1687-1775. |
| David Seibt, | 1691-1765. |
| Caspar Kribel, | (?)-1771. |
| Abraham Wagner,[1] | ca. 1715-1763 |
| Christoph Schultz, | 1718-1789. |
| Christoph Kribel,[2] | 1720-1800. |
| Rev. George Meschter, M. D. | 1840. |
The list of hymn writers of the Saur edition includes the following Schwenkfelders. We indicate also the number of hymns of each admitted to the collection : Adam Reissner 5, Valentin Triller 15, Bernhard Herxheimer 1. Daniel Sudermann 47, George Frell 20, George Heydrich 1, Martin John 30, George
