Excerpt from The Hymnal of Praise Christian song is increasingly recognized as one of the most valuable agencies in the ex pression of Christian truth and the quickening of the Christian life. It affords utterance to the world-wide fellowship of the spirit. It gives embodiment to the great historic convictions of Christendom, and sounds the note of prophesy for the yet unrealized future. Its music serves to heighten the impression made by Christian verse, furnishes a medium for choral utterance, and gives beauty and impressiveness to Christian worship. It is hardly possible, then, to overstate the importance of the use of the very best in Christian hymnology. The present collection is the result of a long-continued endeavor to bring together the greatest hymns of many lands and of many centuries, and to associate with these an nu usual number of the most helpful of the recent hymns voicing the growing devotion to a Kingdom of God that is to come in home and school and nation, in social service for city and country, in missionary heroism giving itself to our own land and all lands, in international brotherhood and universal peace. Great pains have been taken to link these hymns with the choicest tunes in use in America, England, Germany and other countries. While careful regard has been paid to preserving established associations of tunes with hymns, new adaptations have been made which it is believed will give fresh interest and dignity to the use of many valuable hymns, thus distinctly enriching the service of song. As the name of this hymnal implies, it is prepared with the conviction that all worthy and enduring hymnology is fundamentally an expression of praise in thought and life, and that while a wide range of human experience is included, the hymnal should constantly encourage the substitution of the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. 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.