BEAUTIFUL SONGS!

A NEW AND CHOICE COLLECTION OF SONGS

For the Sunday School.

ALSO,

A Responsive Service for Each Month in the Year.

BY

S. W. STRAUB.

CHICAGO:

PUBLISHED BY S. W. STRAUB.

Copyright, 1887, by S. W. STRAUB.

PREFACE.

THE author of BEAUTIFUL SONGS wishes hereby to tender his grateful acknowledgments to the many who have approved his former collections of Sunday school songs-Living Fountain, Morning Light and Crown of Glory. The high standard, Christian sentiment and poetic merit of the words, and the beautiful and attractive music found in these books, have been matters of general and warm comment.

With these encouragements before us we have doubled our energies and care in the preparation of BEAUTIFUL SONGS. Every line of words and every phrase of music has been carefully studied with a view to accepting nothing but the best. Truth, Beauty, Power and Attractiveness have ever been kept in view.

Tested, but not worn, songs of rare merit have been especially sought after, and many such gems have been inserted. This is one of the unique features of BEAUTIFUL SONGS.

Songs of all topics and for all occasions that a Sunday school is likely to want are fully supplied. See index to "Pieces for Special Purposes."

A Responsive Service for each month is a feature of BEAUTIFUL SONGS that we believe will be heartily commended.

The Misses Maria and Mary A. Straub have contributed many new and excellent hymns.. W. F. Werschkul, T. Martin Towne, Wm. Beery, Arthur M. Straub, J. M. Stillman, and other excellent composers, are well represented.

That BEAUTIFUL SONGS may prove worthy of its name, and be instrumental in helping to build up the Master's kingdom, is the earnest desire of

THE AUTHOR AND COMPILER.

To the Examining Committee: Your labors may be greatly lessened by turning to the following pages as fair specimens: 4, 6, 10, 14, 16, 25, 40, 44, 56, 63, 67, 72, 94, 106, 122, 128, 134, 136, 152, 174, 178, 180.

That all may understand the improved "time signatures," which are rapidly coming into use, the following explanation may suffice: 222 6 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 1 2 14 | 84 | 84 | 8

Copyright Notice -Nearly all the words and music in BEAUTIFUL SONGS are the property of Mr. S. W STRAUB, and cannot be printed in any form or for any purpose without permission from him.

MEREDITH, Printer, Chicago, Ill.

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