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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1888 Edition.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1888 Edition.

Excerpt from Woman in Sacred Song: A Library of Hymns, Religious Poems, and Sacred Music, by Woman IN bringing this volume before the public, the only apology offered is that there has long been a demand for it. Not only have the Christian sisterhood, for a considerable length of time, been sending out appeals for some one to under take the work of collecting and publishing the sacred songs of woman; but numerous members of the devout brother hood, recognizing and appreciating her labor in this line, for the praise and glory of the Master, have united in the demand. Accordingly, three years ago, the task was undertaken, and it must he confessed, 'with but a faint realization of the vast amount of research necessary to glean from a field the broad extent of which was-little imagined. Woman IN sacred song is designed to be chiefly a reference book for the home and library, embracing about. Hymns, dating from the year 1546 to the present time, and including the sacred verse of upwards of 820 authors. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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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