Book of Chants: Consisting Mostly of Selections from the Sacred Scriptures, Adapted to Appropriate Music, and Arranged for Chanting; Designed for Congregational Use in Public Or Social Worship (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Book of Chants: Consisting Mostly of Selections From the Sacred Scriptures, Adapted to Appropriate Music, and Arranged for Chanting; Designed for Congregational Use in Public or Social Worship

It is gratifying to know that chanting has been gradually finding its way into the devotional exercises of Christians of various denominations within a few years past; and still more so, to be assured that wherever it has been judiciously introduced, and appropriately performed, it has met with the warm approbation of those who feel a deep interest in the spirituality of religious worship.

There is something so decidedly devotional in this style of singing, that it cannot fail to call forth the sympathies of the pious heart. A chant when performed by a well trained choir in appropriate style, and with just expression, unites the eloquence of Sacred music and poetry; and surely, no one who is susceptible of religious emotion can listen to the lofty and sublime strains of David, Isaiah, and other inspired writers, when thus sung, and remain unmoved. The fact that in chanting, the very words of the sacred Scriptures may be used, is certainly much in its favor, and of itself sufficient to commend it to those who desire to make the statutes of the Lord their songs in the house of their pilgrimage.

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