Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Hymns for School Worship
IN compiling the following hymns, I have been guided by the belief that hymns for common worship, and especially for school worship, should be bright rather than sad, simple rather than com plex, devotional rather than doctrinal or didactic. Most of the hymns chosen may, I think, be de scribed as of this character. But the book is not intended for children only, and it could not have been as comprehensive as I wished it to be had I excluded all hymns marked by a special serious ness, or by superficial difficulties connected with changes in language, or by a somewhat unusual emphasis of the belief at the root of their aspira tion. Even if it should be thought that hymns so characterised are better fitted for reading at home than for singing at school, I shall not regret a decision which may suggest a twofold use of my little volume, and plead for its acceptance, at least with its older readers, not as a schoolbook only, but as a personal companion and friend. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
