Excerpt from The American Sunday-School Hymn-Book The committee undertook the task to meet a want which they have long felt. The book is offered to the public, confident that it will prove to be useful and acceptable. If their expectations are met, they hope to accompany it with a book of tunes adapted to all the hymns, entitled The American Sunday. 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.