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Published: 2015-06-24
Total Pages: 196
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Excerpt from Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs: Compiled for the Use of Universalist Churches, Associations, and Social Meetings This little volume has been compiled, in order to meet a want which the publishers believed to exist in the Universalist communities of the West. They have long thought it desirable that there should be a more general participation in the musical exercises of Divine worship; and a great obstacle to such a participation has seemed to be the necessarily high price of the hymn-books in former use among us, which prevented more than a limited ownership in our poorer societies. Those books, considering the large amount of excellent matter they contain, are really "cheap;" but it was believed a collection might be made of a suitable number of appropriate hymns which could be sold at such a low rate as to justify congregations in purchasing supplies to be kept at their places of worship. For this purpose we offer 308 Hymns: abundant, we think, to meet every ordinary exigency of Church service; and at such a price as will enable societies, by a few collections, to obtain a proper number for public use. 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.