Excerpt from Sacred Songs for School Use The hymn and tunes in the present collection have been brought together with a view to furnishing, in convenient and inexpensive form, a book for use in devotional exercises in high schools and academies. They include many of the favorite and classic hymns which should become familiar in school days. Due regard is bad to the conditions in public schools and the need of selections which shall be universally acceptable. It is hoped that the number and variety of the hymns, their quality and their appropriateness, will commend the book. 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.