The Assembly Praise-Book

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Excerpt from The Assembly Praise-Book: Hymns and Tunes for General Use With Responsive Readings From the PsalmsThe nucleus of this collection was a group of perhaps twenty hymns gathered from various American and British sources. Be tween 1885 and 1905, the senior Editor assisted in the making of several hymnals, and therefore had occasion to examine many collee tions. From time to time, as an admirable new hymn or tune was found, it was laid aside for future use.When the need of a distinctly non-sectarian hymnal seemed to be manifesting itself, the junior Editor undertook to examine care fully the standard American collections used in church and school. About five hundred candidates were thus gathered. Then began a series of winnowings. At each stage in the process of selection, competent advisers and helpers gave hearty co-operation. When the final and severest tests were applied, one hundred hymns remained, including not only the nucleus above mentioned, but also some patri otic songs and a few representative products of great epochs of hymn-writing. To these were added, in conformity with the judg ment of representative supervisors, certain standard hymns and tunes which are not strictly non-sectarian, but nevertheless are in well-nigh universal use.There has been no occasion to make new versions of hymns. In some cases an altered version had already supplanted the original.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.