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Excerpt from Practical Hymnology A fruitful soil is thus prepared for the purveyor of the cheap, ragtime hymn. He glibly informs the music committee (composed usually of business men who would be insulted if one ascribed to them any knowledge whatever of music) that his book will wake the congregation out of the lassitude into which it has sunk; that the perfect panacea for the lack of interest in the singing is bound up within the cheap covers of his Tinkling Cymbal; that the proper way to stir the souls of the people is to begin; with the feet, which, being galvanized into frantic activity under the spell of sundry jigs, waltzes and jazzes, will speedily communicate their exhilaration upward. He succeeds almost invariably in selling his wares, whereupon he goes his way rejoicing to the next church with a music committee. Now, the cheap hymn book is not a cure for the disease; its adoption simply means the substitution of one malady for another. 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.

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