The International Lesson Hymnal, 1879 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The International Lesson Hymnal, 1879Realizing the place and power of song in the Sunday-school and being fully assured of a large increase in its usefulness, as well as interest, by the introduction of Lesson Songs, in October, 1877, I issued a call to song writers for Songs on the Sunday-school lessons for the first quarter of 1878. This resulted in some forty pieces, the best of which were printed in our Teachers' and Scholars' Quarterlies, for first quarter of '78. The Quarterlies, thus improved, gave such satisfaction that their circulation, then less than forty thousand, was increased to over one hundred and seventy thousand with the first quarter, and a continuance of the call, and issue of lesson songs throughout the year, resulted in a largely increased competition from song writers, as well as warmest praise and support from schools.This has led me to undertake, for 1879, °a still larger scheme for securing and introducing the best of lesson songs, by issuing a general call for lesson poems and lesson songs, and organizing bureaus for judgment upon them.The results I now publish in book form, and it is also the intention to publish them in the Quarterlies for the current year. It is only just to say that replies to the call for lesson songs for 1879 have been far beyond our expectation. We have received upwards of eight hundred poems for music and over five hundred pieces of music, from which the selection was made, and it is with great pleasure and thanksgiving that I issue this first international lesson hymnal.Acknowledging the obligation I am under, not only to the Bureaus of Sunday school Music and Sunday-school Poetry, whose names appear on the cover and title page, but also to the hundreds who have contributed words and music, _and asking from the Sunday-school only as hearty a support as has been given the project by the Sunday-school song writers of the land, I remain.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.