Author: Anna A. Gordon

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-10-08

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 9781333887346

Excerpt from The White Ribbon Hymnal, or Echoes of the Crusade: Compiled for the National and World's Woman's Christian Temperance Unions In the abundance of your faith you have requested me by unanimous vote of the National Convention to prepare a temperance hymnal which should em body the psalms, hymns and spiritual songs that have inspired the white ribbon women since the Crusade, and which the pen of experience might mark Tried and Proved. In addition to these blessed hymns which are as sacredly familiar as a mother's lullaby, the White Ribbon Hymnal contains some new selections of decided merit and a number of original songs set to well-known airs, by writers in our own ranks. The quiet prayer meeting and earnest gospel temperance gathering, the great mass meetings and temperance entertainments, the memorial service, pledge-signing meeting and rousing prohibition and home protection rallies, have all been held in loyal remembrance during the compilation of this book; but it still falls far short of my ideal Hymnal, because the engrossing duties of private secretary have rendered anything beyond fragmentary attention to its makeup, quite impossible. I have no pecuniary interest in its sale, having prepared it gratuitously and arranged that the profits which would otherwise accrue to me, shall be paid to the treasurer of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union, for use in the children's work. To those who have in the following pages generously given their musical inspirations to our blessed cause, and notably to our white ribbon prima-donna, Mrs. Alice J. Harris, of Boston, for invaluable help freely rendered, our sincere gratitude is here recorded. And now, dear sisters of the local unions for whose use our Hymnal has been especially prepared, let me earnestly beseech you to welcome your speakers to their evening's work by its sweet songs. 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.