Lyra Sacra Americana: Or Gems From American Sacred Poetry; Selected and Arranged, With Notes and Biographical Sketches (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Lyra Sacra Americana: Or Gems From American Sacred Poetry; Selected and Arranged, With Notes and Biographical Sketches

Although such an unprecedented number of hymn books and works on hymnology have been published since 1860, that this might, not inappropriately, be called the hymnological decade of the nineteenth century, yet I can make no apology for adding another to the number, as I do not think that this department of literature has even yet received the consideration and honour it deserves. When man's higher nature and higher wants are considered, there is no literary subject that has pre-eminence over it, if there be any that equals it in true value; for NO one 1s so sure OF A lasting as well AS loving remembrance AS the author OF A good hymn. Watts, ivesley, Doddridge, Toplady, Cowper and Lyte will live in the affections of millions, when others of far greater learning.

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Excerpt from Lyra Sacra Americana: Or Gems From American Sacred Poetry; Selected and Arranged, With Notes and Biographical Sketches

After a residence of some years in Great Britain, I have been no little surprised to find, from time to time, in conversation with many of its best informed people and Christian scholars, how little is generally known of the wealth that exists in American Sacred Lyric Poetry. Even Sir Roundell Palmer, in his admirable "Book of Praise," has but seven hymns from American writers; as I feel confident that had he known of some presented in this collection, they would have found an honoured place in his own.

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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.