The Golden Chain of Praise

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Excerpt from The Golden Chain of Praise: Hymns Divine Song then has its laws and limitations: it does not spurn the bonds of Art, but it draws its life and power from Divine Inspiration. Sacred strains are bound to exhibit the same literary excellence essential to noble secular strains. The tenderness, pathos and melody which go to make an excellent earthly love-song, are still more admirable in a heavenly love-song. The fire and force which kindle us in a grand war-song still more uplift our hearts in the song of the Christian warrior. But the most exact knowledge of the properties of Sacred Song, combined with the fullest command of happy diction and melodious numbers, cannot avail to the production of a potent hymn without devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all 'utterance and knowledge, and sends out His Seraphim with the hallowed fire of His altar to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases. 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.