Excerpt from Hymns: Their History and Development in the Greek and Latin Churches Germany and Great Britain The hymn of our Lord, the precepts of the apostles, the angelic song at the Nativity, and Benedicite omnia opera, are referred to in a curious metrical prologue to the hymnary of the Mozarabic Breviary, as pre cedents for the practice of the Western Church. In this respect, however, the West ern Church followed the Eastern, in which hymnody prevailed from the earliest times. 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.