Excerpt from The First Presbyterian Church: A History of the Oldest Organization in Chicago With Biographical Sketches of the Pastors and Copious, Extracts From the Choir Records This book, therefore, is largely devoted to the history of music in this church as a part of its service; and, as, to my knowledge, there exists no other work covering this subject, I have attempted to present a number of facts connected with church music With which I have become acquainted during my investigations, and which seem to me to deserve an authentic record in connection with a history of church life in Chicago. 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.