Excerpt from Plymouth Sabbath School Collection of Hymns and Tunes This litt e work is a humble attempt to imitate the Savior in his favorite mode of instruction. Our labor is with the young. We seek to cultivate their higher social and moral natures through the medium of music. And knowing that for the soul to flow out in song, the words must be such as the children can not only understand, but in the meaning and spirit of which they can heartily sympathise, we have selected those hymns chiefly which are founded upon natural objects, and have sought to associate with the Stars, the Flowers, the Birds, the dew-drop, Trees, Brooks, and Fields, those thoughts of God, the Soul, Christ as its Savior, our relative duties in life, &c., as should be not only attractive, but suggestive also, and lead the child to look up throu h nature and material objects and relations, to God as its Father, and to Jesus Christ as its ten derest and truest friend. This act must serve as an explanation why most of the standard church hymns, particularly those of a grave and didactic character, (though excellent for mature minds, ) have been, to a great extent, excluded. We wish, through the associations of every-day life, to open the door continually, through which thoughts and impressions may come into the soul that might otherwise be excluded. 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.