Excerpt from Select Songs for the Singing Service in the Prayer Meeting and Sunday School Its Origin is in the experience of the needs of the Sunday School in its relation to the church. Very frequently the three departments, the Church, the Prayer Meeting and the Sunday School have each its own separate hymns and tunes; and it has been very difficult to find a remedy. Each of these departments must have some music especially! Belonging to itself and not adapted to the others, so that each needs a separate book and yet a large proportion of the hymns and tunes should be the same in all; so that each department may be an aid to the others, and all the practice in singing in one shall make better singing in them all. For a long time our ideal of a Sunday School singing book has been one that. Should embody: I. The choicest and most' familiar church hymns and tunes. Such hymns, in the words of another as are never forgotten. They cling to us through our whole life. Children catch them, and singing only for the joy it gives them now, are yet laying up for all their life food of the sweetest joy. 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.