Songs and Hymns of the Earliest Greek Christian Poets

Four years ago the Anthologia Graeca Carminum Christianorum (Leipsic, 1871) was put into my hands by a friend, to look for hymns, Eucharistic especially, which, when rendered into English, might be suitable for the general use of the Church. Of Eucharistic hymns I did not find one in the volume. But I lighted frequently on detached passages here and there, which might form the groundwork of useful and popular hymns for general Christian worship. I did not then know that the late [1]Dr. J. M. Neale had applied his magic wand to several of such passages which are to be found in the later portion of the Anthologia.