Excerpt from Good News, or Songs and Tunes for Sunday Schools, Christian Associations, and Special Meetings There was more and better material at hand in the preparation of this book, than we ever commanded before in behalf of any similar work. Hence, it would have been easy to fill its pages throughout with fresh hymns and new music, but we considered it best to occupy some of the space with familiar pieces from former publications, and standard hymns and tunes that are already in general use among the congregations because such an arrangement, we believe, greatly facilitates the introduction of a new book, and tends to familiarize the young people with the worship song of the sanctuary; a matter that should be kept constantly in view by all who would encourage congregational singing. It will be noticed that we have inserted a large number of vigorous compositions from the able and experienced pen of Dr. A. Brooks Everett, who, when we commenced this work Was in his usual health, and, as he had so often done before kindly gave us free access to his well filled portfolio, with a promise to furnish more, if necessary. But before the selections were all made we received the intelligence of his sudden death, which so saddened our heart that for a time we felt as though we could never finish the book. God grant that the meeting place may verily be in heaven, our beautiful home. 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.