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<em>Eine Unpartheiische Liedersammlung, Zum Gebrauch beim Oeffentlichen Gottesdienst und der Häuslichen Erbauung</em>, the only hymnal except the <em>Ausbund</em> used by the [[Old Order Amish|Old Order Amish]] (not for regular Sunday morning worship but only for evening singings and special occasions), and also used by the [[Old Order Mennonites|Old Order Mennonites]], first edition 1860 at Lancaster, reprinted there 8 times, twice at Elkhart in 1911 and 1929, and 8 times at Scottdale 1917-1954. It is a condensation of 152 hymns from the Lancaster <em>[[Unpartheyisches Gesangbuch, Ein|Unpartheyisches Gesangbuch]]</em>. It is familiarly called by the Amish "das dünne Büchli" (the thin book) in contrast to "das dicke Büchli" (the thick book, i.e., the [[Ausbund|&lt;em&gt;Ausbund&lt;/em&gt;]]). It was published in an enlarged and much revised edition under the same name in 1892 by [[Guengerich, Samuel D. (1836-1929)|S. D. Guengerich]], an Old Order Amish layman of Amish, [[Iowa (USA)|Iowa]] (printed at Elkhart), and reprinted 5 times (1907-1954).
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