Excerpt from Hymns That Have Helped: Being a Collection of Hymns Which Have Been Found Most Useful to the Children of Men In appealing to the American public I do not feel as if I were venturing upon ground that was more strange to me than that of m native land. For the English Nonconformist has ways been more in fellowship with the churches of America than with the Anglican Church that is established and endowed in his own country. The menof the Mayflower, who founded New England, and their descendants after them, have always been more of our kith and kin than the re resentatives of the church of Laud and the Stuarts. E children of the Puritans in the Old World and in the New form one family, in a much more real and vital sense than those who are outside the circle are able to realise. And within that circle there is no language of the household so familiar as sacred song. 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.