SELECT SONGS FOR THE SINGING SERVICE IN THE PRAYER MEETING AND SUNDAY SCHOOL. COMPILED AND EDITED BY REV. F. N. PELOUBET, D.D. NEW YORK AND CHICAGO: BIGLOW & MAIN, SUCCESSORS TO WM. B. BRADBURY. MAY BE OBTAINED THROUGH BOOKSELLERS AND MUSIC DEALERS COPYRIGHT, 1885, BY BIGLOW & MAIN. Its Origin is in the experience of the needs of the Sunday School in its relation to the church. Very frequently the three departments, the Church, the Prayer Meeting and the Sunday School have each its own separate hymns and tunes; and it has been very difficult to find a remedy. Each of these departments must have some music especially belonging to itself and not adapted to the others, so that each needs a separate book; and yet a large proportion of the hymns and tunes should be the same in all; so that each department may be an aid to the others, and all the practice in singing in one shall make better singing in them all. For a long time our ideal of a Sunday School singing book has been one that should embody: 1. The choicest and most familiar church hymns and tunes. "Such hymns," in the words of another "as are never forgotten. They cling to us through our whole life. Children catch them, and singing only for the joy it gives them now, are yet laying up for all their life food of the sweetest joy." 2. The choicest and most enduring of what are called "the Gospel hymns. 3. The best of the English hymns and tunes so far as they can be well sung by children. 4. The best of the distinctively children's music, both new and old. I have presented this ideal in general to a large number of Sunday School superintendents, and in every case have found that they believed in and desired such a book for their schools. At the suggestion of others I have made an attempt to reach this ideal. A selection of hymns and tunes specially adapted to this purpose, was made from every available source. Superintendents and leaders of music in various Sunday Schools showed me the pieces most liked and most successful in their own schools. Then this whole selection was shown to a number of these Sunday School leaders in various parts of the country, who marked those pieces which they would like for their own schools. Scarcely any piece has been put in the book which did not receive an almost unanimous vote. And nearly every piece thus desired we have been able to obtain, through the kindness of the various owners of the copyrights, to whom our thanks are hereby expressed. In addition to the four points mentioned above as representing our ideal, we have endeavored. 5. To use only those pieces, both newer and older, which have been tried and proved,— the elect hymns and tunes. 6. The tunes for all the hymns and songs are given in full; as we find that hymns which are printed without the tunes, or with only the first few notes, are seldom sung in the Sabbath School. 7. The book is a book for praise. We have sought words and music which would be cheerful and bright, poetic and beautiful, the natural utterances of praise. We trust this little book will be a helpful contribution to the service of song in our Sunday Schools. HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY BOUGHT FROM AUG 15 1940 THE AUTHOR. No. 1. DOXOLOGIES, RESPONSES, &c. Old Hundred. ISAAC WATTS, 1719. 1. Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; Praise Him, all Praise Him above, ye heavenly host; Praise Father, Son, and ): 3 62 That all the Church may ho - lier live, And ev-ery lamp more brightly burn." A-men. 2. Give us this | day our- - daily | bread: || And forgive us our debts, as we for- | give our | debtors. 3. And lead us not into temptation, but de- | liver | us from | evil: || For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for | ever. | A-— | men. 6. SARA J. HALE. Our Father in Heaven. E. L. WHITE, 1832. 1. Our Father in heaven, We hal-low Thy name! May Thy kingdom ho - ly, Ou 2. For-give our transgressions, And teach us to know That hum-ble compassion That |