Editing Millennial Praises (section)

==Description==
''Millennial Praises'' was the first published Shaker [[Hymnal|hymn book]].{{sfn|Medlicott|2013|page=123}}{{sfn|Miller|2003|page=41}}{{sfn|Sered|1996|page=248}}<ref name=hard_bound>{{cite web |url=http://www.passtheword.org/shaker-manuscripts/Millennial-Praises/mpraisesndex.htm |title=Millennia Praises containing a collection of gospel hymns |last1=Tallcott  |first1=Joseph |date=2015 |publisher=PasstheWORD |access-date=June 30, 2015 }}</ref> Many printed Shaker hymn books followed.{{sfn|Foster|1981|page=45}}  The ''Millennial Praises'' hymnal contained only the words of the 140 hymns, without any [[musical notation]].{{sfn|Chase|1992|page=205}}<ref name=UOM>{{cite web |url=http://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/millennial-praises |title=A Shaker Hymnal, A scholarly edition|last1=Goodwillie |first1=Christian |date= 2015|website=Millennial Praises |publisher=University of Massachusetts |access-date=June 30, 2015 |quote=In 1812–13, the Shakers published their first hymnal.}}</ref><ref name=NoTunes>{{cite web |url=http://www.americanmusicpreservation.com/shakerhistory2.htm |title= The Simple Gifts of Shaker Music in America|last1=Hall|first1=Roger Lee |date=2015 |publisher=PineTree Productions |access-date=June 30, 2015 }}</ref> The hymns were about Christ, God, love, praise, work, and the growth of the Shaker communities.{{sfn|Miller|2003|page=41}} The hymns also conveyed the idea that males and females are equal &ndash; an idea connected to the value of [[celibacy]] in Shakerism.{{sfn|Foster|1981|page=45}} The first hymn in the ''Millennial Praises'' reflects the Shaker viewpoint that God is both male and female.{{sfn|Wergland|2011|page=43}} The Shakers claimed that nearly all the words in the hymn book were spiritual "gifts", and that only a few words were derived from other sources.{{sfn|Foley|2000|page=280}}

The first edition, compiled by Seth Y. Wells and edited by [[Richard McNemar]] of the [[Union Village Shaker settlement]], was titled ''Millennial Praises Parts I and II Containing a Collection of Gospel Hymns''.{{sfn|Goodwillie|2009|page=17}} It was printed at [[Hancock, Massachusetts]], in 1812.{{sfn|Chase|1992|page=205}}{{sfn|Williams|1971|page=44}} The 1813 edition, again published in Hancock, had four parts and was titled ''Millennial Praises, Containing a Collection of Gospel Hymns in Four Parts, adapted to the day of Christ's second appearing &ndash; composed for the use of his people''.{{sfn|Goodwillie|2009|page=17}} McNemar composed about 70 of the 140 hymns, and about a dozen were written by [[Issachar Bates]], a Shaker poet.{{sfn|Medlicott|2013|page=124}} In ''Spiritual Wine'' (see hymn illustration), Bates uses the drunkenness one gets from wine as a metaphor for the Shakers' philosophy of drunkenness through spiritual wine.{{sfn|Medlicott|2013|page=124}}