One Hundred Hymns You Ought to Know (Classic Reprint)

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We do well then, seeing the power of these hymns, to exercise no little care in the selection of those with which children and youth shall be come familiar. This is that which has been in mind in the selection of these Hymns You Ought to Know, the bringing together of at least one hundred of those hymns which may be counted Of greatest worth and force on account of their power for spiritual nurture, for character determination. There must be always wide dif ference of opinion as to what are the very best hymns. But there is certainly one safe test, viz., what hymns have, through a course of at least some time, shown themselves to be best capable of expressing the ideals and worship of the people, stirring their emotions and aspirations and strengthening their inner lives. The song which leaps into popularity and sweeps, whirlwind like, over the country may meet none of these requirements. But the song that the people S1ng year after year, that they sing in the hour of trial, in the quietude of evening, by the hearthside, in the cathedral - the suong that IS sung because it satisfies, strengthens, Inspires, this IS the one that all our people need to know.

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