Excerpt from Pastoral Letter to the Clergy and Laity of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Ohio, on the Subjects of Confirmation and Church Music: To Be Read in the Congregations of the Diocese on the First Sunday After Its Reception And is it not the duty of the clergy to see to this? Is not the duty of seeing to it entirely committed to the clergy? I would revive in your recollections the law of the Church, printed in every Prayer Book, just before the Psalms in Metre, where it is written thus: It shall be the duty of every minister, with such assistance as he can obtain from persons skilled in music, to give order concerning the tunes to be sung at any time in his Church; and especially it shall be his duty to sup press all light and unseemly music. 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.