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Excerpt from Hymns of the Higher Life Perhaps in nothing is the substantial unity of the Christian Church, with all her varying modes of worship and symbols of belief, more significantly seen than in her "hymns and spiritual songs." The theology of the intellect may be discordant; but the theology of the heart is harmonious. Hymns are the expressions of religious emotions, inspired by one eternal Spirit, in the contemplation of one divine Saviour, or in adoration of one heavenly Father. In the Psalms, saints of all ages, of all conditions in life, in all the varied experiences of joy and sorrow, find a common and ample utterance. Prayer and praise, desire and gratification, want and fulness, as the personal consciousness of individual men, never fail to find an adequate language for their expression in the inspired strains of the sweet singers of Israel. 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.