Excerpt from Songs of the Soul: Gathered Out of Many Lands and Ages The work has been a great delight to me. With it has come a sense that the wants and utterances of the soul have been the same in all climes and all ages, and that God's grace was as rich and full and free eighteen hundred years ago as it is to-day. Side by side go up the plaintive utterances of the captive queen, the passionate cry of the earth-stained soul, the triumphant chant of the redeemed, the stirring call of the soldier, the deep and solemn music of the mitred abbot, the noble strains of the cloistered monk, the clear, sweet melody of the martyred girl; and, swelling as they rise, they blend into a grand chorus of love and of thanksgiving that shall one day shake the skies. The work has been itself its own reward but if any soul be touched and drawn to a higher life, any weak heart lifted up and strengthened, it will be to me an unspeakable joy. 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.