Excerpt from Homilies, Hymns and Harmonies: Or Food to Strengthen and Songs to Cheer Of making many books there is no end. And here is one more. How came it to be? Its issuance grew out of the fact that for quite a number of years a good many unpublished songs of my own com possing, had been all the time increasing in number, and yet no favorable opening for their publication seemed to present itself in any direction. 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.