Woman in Sacred Song : a library of hymns, religious poems, and sacred music, by woman is an illustrated book of 880 quarto pages compiled by Eva Munson Smith with preface by Frances E. Willard, first published in 1885 in Boston by D. Lothrop & Company.
[1] It contains hymns and nearly 3,000 devotional, missionary, temperance, and miscellaneous poems, the work of about 820 women in the preceding 340 years.
Through exhaustive research, Smith settled questions of disputed authorship, and did coupled popular verses with the names of the writers, where the former had been started anonymously or the two had become disunited by the accidents of the press.
It was composed at thirteen, and as I still find the same difficulty in governing my kingdom, it still expresses my soul's desire, and I have nothing better to offer.
[6] In 1893, Smith was invited to deliver an address before the World's Congress of Representative Women on the topic of the same name: "Woman in Sacred Song".