Church Psalmist, or Psalms and Hymns Designed for the Public, Social and Private Use of Evangelical Christians (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Church Psalmist, or Psalms and Hymns Designed for the Public, Social and Private Use of Evangelical ChristiansIf the province of Lyric Poetry is to inspire and exprm emotion, then no Psalm nor Hymn can answer the true pur pose of christian worship unless it breathes the appropriate spirit. Lts execution, as well as its subject, must be lyric. It may be rhyme, and not poetry. It may be poetry, and yd not be adapted to singing. Heroics can never, with any ad. Vantage, be set to music. A Hymn, whether it respects God, our fellow-beings, or ourselves, should be the effusion of the heart, and that heart under proper in¿uences - melted and dissolved by just such emotions as suit the condition de scribed, or the occasion for which the song is intended. The language should be simple, the images striking, but not gaudy, the figures unincumbered, the sentences uninvolved and short, the structure free from all ambiguity, the whole style and manner chaste, and not loaded with ornament or epithet, and the stanzas, and even lines, express, as far as practicable, a complete idea. In one word, it must be poetry, and lyric poetry, or it will chill the native inspirations of song, and defeat the great end of this part of worship.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.