Excerpt from Service Songs: For Young People's Societies, Sunday Schools, and Church Prayer Meetings Modern hymn-book for young people's meet ings should contain a judicious and sufficient selection of undying, standard hymns of the church, without which no collection of sacred music for young or old can be complete, together with more modern hymns that appeal to the livelier religious emotions of youth. But all should be hymns and tunes of real merit, that fit the varied needs and moods of devotion, service, prayer and praise, patriotism, and fellowship. Service songs is such a collection, and I believe that it is fitted, in an unusual degree, to meet the real wants of those for whom it is intended. A guaranty of this is furnished also by the fact that it is compiled by two of the best-known and best-loved of Christian Endeavorers, one of whom has written more popular gospel hymns of genuine worth than any other living person with one exception, while the other for more than a quarter of a century has studied in little meetings and in great conventions in all parts of the land the real needs of young people in their service of song. 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.