Hymns of the Advent (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Hymns of the Advent Among the many natural endowments of mankind, none appear more conspicuous or delightful than the capacity for song. Vocal utterance was bestowed upon us by the "Giver of every good and perfect gift, " without doubt, that we might praise and adore him, and that we might make each other glad. The correctness of this view is established in our thoughts at once, as we remember how, - when the Mosaic ritual and service was ordained, - a certain portion of the children of Israel were set apart for this express purpose, and how, also, in this "dispensation of the fullness of times, " the great Apostle exhorts the people of God to "Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord." The church of the living God has ever been inspired to sing, but never before has she had such inspiration to break forth in joyful lays of praise and thanksgiving as now. For now "The night is far spent, the day is at hand." They who have heeded the "light" which was ordained to "shine in a dark place until the Day-dawn, " know that the dreary night-shadows - brought upon this earth by humanity's sin, and the chaos conjured by man's selfishness - are soon to give place to the beauteous glory of a never-ending day, and the ceaseless harmonies of an immortal regeneration, quickened by God's Spirit of everlasting grace and perfect love. The "morning watch" is here-"Blessed is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments." We hail the dawning. Thus believing, I felt moved to prepare a Hymn Book suited to the use of the waiting.Church, now standing on the verge of redemption. My plan was, first, to select all the old favorite Hymns, as far as known, which had become standards among us, and these will be found in our book, - unset to music, however, inasmuch as the old tunes must be quite familiar to all, hence I considered it unnecessary to print them, as this would make the book far more costly. Second. I designed to embody with the choice old Hymns the new and fresh Advent Poetry which has for its inspiration the Prophetical fulfillment, light, and experience of these later years, and I feel much pleasure in presenting in these pages a large number of beautiful Hymns written by Horatius Bonar of Scotland, than which finer poetry has never been written. 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.