THE HYMNS OF PROGRESS: BEING A COMPILATION, ORIGINAL AND SELECT, OF HYMNS, SONGS, AND READINGS, DESIGNED TO MEET A PART OF THE PROGRESSIVE WANTS OF Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1864, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of BV 459 1264 REASONS FOR PUBLISHING THE "HYMNS OF PROGRESS." THIS little aid to melody is offered to the public at this time to supply, in part, a want, and not as a claim for literary merit. In travelling for the last seven years in various sections of our country, and attending Progressive Meetings, the want of more general singing to produce a oneness of feeling has been very apparent. When offering, in such places, the works having the music attached, the reply often comes, "We are not acquainted with music; give us a book of Hymns and Songs without music, adapted to familiar tunes and well-known metres, of convenient size and comparatively low in price, and we should like it better." On the other hand, many of the Leaders of Choirs say they prefer the words separate from the music, and in large-sized type; that they choose to select for themselves the music adapted to the words to be used; that very frequently the words to be sung, as they wish, are in one part of the book and the music in another, so that two books become necessary. This work is issued to meet, in part, these deficiencies. |