Excerpt from The Children's Hymn Book: For Use in Children's Services, Sunday Schools and Families; Arranged in Order of the Church's Year Of the tunes it may equally be said that neither labour nor expense has been spared in their preparation, and that the endeavour worthily to set the hymns to music, has been the work of several years. One great object has been to provide pleasing melodies, such as children can easily learn, and at the same time to secure the sound harmonies which shall accustom their ears to what is good. A simpler tune has occasionally been substituted for that generally set. 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.