COPYRIGHT, 1893, BY THE BIGLOW & MAIN CO. PREFACE. ELECT SONGS No. 1 has been received with so great favor, and has so S well filled a place otherwise left vacant, that the compilers feel warranted in preparing another work, projected on the same lines and selected from the abundance of excellent material gathered in the course of ordinary duties in prac tical Sunday School work during the ten years since SELECT SONGS NO. I was issued. SELECT SONGS No. 2 contains no pieces that are in No. 1 excepting a few pages of familiar hymns, with a line of melody added for convenience in leading the singing, and which are placed at the end of the book. There are very great advantages in using as far as possible the same book in the Prayer-meeting, the Sunday School and the Christian Endeavor meeting, instead of having three separate works and three separate sets of hymns and tunes. Thus the gain through the service of song in one department is gained for all. The choicest words and music that are adapted to the purpose have been selected. Special thanks are due to the many kind friends who have given their judgment from the standpoints of professor of music, choir leader, pastor, superintendent of Sunday School, and leader of song in the prayer-meeting, and to OLIVER DITSON Co., THE JOHN CHURCH CO., MAYNARD, MERRILL & Co., JOHN J. HOOD, W. J. BALTZELL, U. P. BOARD OF PUBLICATION, Rev. J. E. RANKIN, D.D., WILL. L. THOMPSON, Rev. J. M. DRIVER, Rev. F. M. LAMB, WM. G. FISCHER, and others for permission to use valuable selections of which they own the copyright. Much of the music and words is copyright property and cannot be used without permission of the various owners. THE COMPILERS. Select Songs Nos. 1 and 2 will be bound up in one volume for those who desire it. This edition will be as complete a manual of praise as can be obtained, for use in the Prayer Meeting, the Sunday School, and the meetings of the Society of Christian Endeavor. Price, in cloth, $70.00 per 100 copies, by express; 85 cents each by mail. |