Excerpt from Short Stories of the Hymns: Being a Brief Account of the Circumstances, in Which Some of Our Best Hymns, and Songs Were Written The purpose Of this little book is to present to its readers some brief account Of the origin and authorship Of some Of our more familiar hymns. It is not the purpose to attempt to cover the whole ground Of Christian hymnology, in its simply historical aspect, as that would demand the preparation Of a book Of very considerable dimensions. It is pro posed, Simply, to select from a very ...
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Excerpt from Short Stories of the Hymns: Being a Brief Account of the Circumstances, in Which Some of Our Best Hymns, and Songs Were Written The purpose Of this little book is to present to its readers some brief account Of the origin and authorship Of some Of our more familiar hymns. It is not the purpose to attempt to cover the whole ground Of Christian hymnology, in its simply historical aspect, as that would demand the preparation Of a book Of very considerable dimensions. It is pro posed, Simply, to select from a very large amount Of material which the author has for years past been gathering, a few Of the more striking and interesting incidents connected with the composi tion Of some Of our best known Songs Of Zion. In doing this free use will be made Of such works on the subject as either a private or a public library will afford. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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