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Excerpt from The Service of Song: In the House of the Lord My writing this book was very much of an accident. Wishing to encourage attendance on a proposed Course of Lectures on Psalmody, I preached a short sermon on the subject to my Congregation, with no view but that of exciting so much interest as might induce that attendance. To my surprise, I found there was a very general and strong desire for the publication of the discourse. I consented to prepare a brief and rapid "recollection" in the form of a penny tract. 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.