The Sunday School Hymnary, ed C.Bonner; Sunday School Union 1905. Title page and Preface, transcribed from a copy of the Ninth Edition (? = 1st edition, 9th impression) 1912; copy in possession.
[Title page]
THE
HYMNARY
A TWENTIETH CENTURY HYMNAL
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
WORDS AND MUSIC EDITED BY
CAREY BONNER.
PUBLISHED AT 57 & 59 LUDGATE HILL, LONDON
BY THE SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION . . . . MDCCCCV.
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[Preface]
THE AIM OF THE "SUNDAY SCHOOL HYMNARY."
This book is sent forth in the earnest hope that it may minister to a reverential, sincere, yet glad worship in the Sunday School. The Graded Arrangement of the Hymns for the Junior, Middle, amd Senior Sections of the Scholars will, it is believed, help to this desired end.
Old Hymns and Tunes have an honourable place, but the best writers and composers of later years are also represented; and probably as the newer pieces become known they will be deemed worthy of retention in the praise of the modern Sunday School.
In regard to Hymns - whilst giving due consideration to Literary and Lyrical qualities, the Editor has followed the general principle of selecting those which young people can sing with sincerity.
Many pieces popular in Sunday Schools have been purposely passed over as being either weakly sentimental, or beyond the stage of youthful experience. Others have been omitted because consisting of bare doctrinal statements having no inspirational or ethical value.
The best hymns for use in the Sunday School are (to adopt and apply Mr W.T.Stead's suggestive phrase) "Hymns that help" in the building up of a strong, all-round, Christly character; and the Editor and Publishers covet no greater result for their efforts than the knowledge that many of the hymns here brought together have been thus found helpful.
In the matter of Dates, grateful acknowledgmentS are made of indebtedness to the researches of Mr J.R.Griffiths, Mr Jas.T.Lightwood, and others. The splendid "Dictionary of Hymnology," edited by Rev.Canon Julian, has been of exceptional service.
Where a single date is given it is that of the year when the Hymn or Tune was first published. Where such a date has not been obtainable the years of the Author's or Composer's Birth and Death have been substituted.
The Editor tenders his warm thanks to the Rev.W.Garrett Horder, Mr H.W.Pewtress, and to other friends and correspondents who have so readily supplied information concerning Authors and Owners of Copyrights.
He is especially grateful to several gentlement - Organists, Choirmasters, and Conductors - who have kindly met with him from time to time for the purpose of going through the various Tunes, giving him the great advantage of their experience and judgment in the final selection of the best and most fitting musical settings of the hymns.
Acknowledgments of permissions for use of Copyright Words or Music will be found in the preliminary paragraphs to the Index of Copyrights.
The usefulness of the book has, it is hoped, been enhanced by the method of Classification adopted and by the full set of Indexes supplied. In the preparation of these Indexes, the Editor has received valuable help from his wife.
For economy of space in music setting the stems of the Treble and Alto Notes have been turned upwards, and those of the Tenor and Bass Notes downwards. In the cases where one note only appears on a stave both parts are to sing the same note.
Notwithstanding the care bestowed in the reading of Proofs some errors have probably been overlooked, and the Editor will be glad to receive corrections, or suggestions for future Editions. These may be addressed to him at 56, Old Bailey, London E.C.
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