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Excerpt from Songs of Faith, Hope, and Love: For Sunday Schools and Devotional Meetings Among the many helpful aids to better work in the Sunday-school, nothing is so much needed as a good collection Of hymns: hymns which shall be earnest, stirring, useful, and fairly meet the test Of literary criticism. The larger part Of the popular Sunday-school hymnology is Open to grave censure for many serious literary defects; barren doggerel rhymes, strained metaphors, unhealthy sentiments, are bad enough, but coupled with these is a trite, familiar use of sacred epithets, and the appellations of the Deity and the Saviour, which are as Offensive to correct taste as is the general illiteracy which is so marked a feature Of the host Of Sunday-school singing books whose titles are almost as numerous as the mineral and floral products from which they are named. The best which could be said for the greater part Of the. Music associated with these so-called hymns, was, that it was quickly and easily caught up: but time tests all things, and the little, jingling, superficial tunes were as quickly and easily dropped and forgotten, and the usefulness Of the book was exhausted within two years at most. 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.