Excerpt from The Hallelujah: A Book for the Service of Song in the House of the Lord, Containing Tunes, Chants, and Anthems, Both for the Choir and the Congregation; To Which Is Prefixed the Singing School, a Manual for Classes in Vocal Music And now, having finished a work which has cost us no little labor, as every intelligent person who examines it will readily acknowledge, we commend it to clergymen, choirs, schools, and people, ' in the full belief that if they will receive it and make proper use of it, they will derive strength from it; it will afi'ord them pleasure, and do them good. 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.