Excerpt from Stories of Great National Songs Mr. Henry T. Finck, in an article on The Utility of Music, printed in a recent number of The Forum, speaks about music superseding the chime bells in calling people to worship. In some parts of Germany, especially at Stuttgart, they have a more delightful and effective way of draw ing people to church than by the clanking of the bells. Three or four trombone-players enter the church tower a short time before the hour of ser vice and play a solemn choral so sweetly that the charm and purifying joy in the majestic barmo nies wafting in the air, are not wasted on dull ears, but impress passers-by with the fact that Sunday is not as a sponge with which to wipe out the follies Of the week, but a day Of worship, and many hundreds are drawn to the service who would otherwise pass by the church door. 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.