The New Century For Church Services, Prayer Meetings, PUBLISHERS' NOTICE The New Century Hymnal Edited by WILL L. THOMPSON A Gospel Hymn Book for the Millions of Christian 217 The New Century Hymnal contains 240 pages of the most beautiful and useful Gospel Hymns that have been written up to this date. Including 10 pages of carefully selected responsive readings, etc. "In the Multitude of Counsellors there is Safety." The selections in The New Century Hymnal | piece was named. The result of this vote are the result of an almost unanimous response cannot but be of the greatest interest to all from 10,000 circular letters which we sent to lovers of good music in the Sunday-School ministers and Sunday School music leaders and church. throughout the United States. We found a great difference of opinion as to The following copy of the letter will show the usefulness of many of the so-called sentiwhat may be expected from the book: MY DEAR SIR: I am writing and compiling a new collection of Gospel Songs, and as I want every piece in the book to be choice, I am asking 10,000 of the leading ministers, Sunday-School superintendents and music leaders to write me a list of five favorites. Will you kindly (on the enclosed postal card) let me know what five pieces your school and other gatherings use with greatest enjoyment? A large number of the collections now published contain a few good singable pieces and a great many very ordinary ones that our people do not take to. Now, by the plan I have adopted, I hope to get 10,000 lists of only the favorites. These lists will be carefully gone over, compared and "boiled down," and when we are through with them I believe we will have selected only the very best, and you may be assured every piece will be popular with Sunday Schools and gospel meetings. Yours Truly, etc. As the responses to these letters came in we made a list of the pieces voted for and kept careful tally on the number of times each mental Gospel songs, but we were glad to find a large demand for the higher grade, purely devotional hymns. Some of our most influential ministers wrote, "Leave out the trash and give us the grand old hymns." We all know there are thousands of so-called Gospel songs that are absolutely worthless- words and music-but the pieces that stand fire and are adopted by Christian workers from Maine to California must certainly have merit. All the selections will not suit all the people, but they represent the demands of those who are capable of judging. The only indulgence we ask is for the 20 or more new pieces by the editor. These being new, were not included in the voting contest, but we hope they may be found useful. Give the book a careful examination and 35 cents each, by mail, postpaid. $3.25 per dozen, by express, not prepaid. $25.00 for 100, by express, not prepaid. FOR HOME MISSIONS.-With every order for 100 books, ordered direct from us, we will, if requested, send ten extra books free, with the understanding that these ten books are to be given to some mission church or school. This is not in any way to be considered as a reduction from the above prices, as the books cannot be sold for less than $25.00 per hundred, but is a gift by the editor for the benefit of mission churches. Address orders to W. L. Thompson & Co. Music Publishers East Liverpool, Ohio The New Century Hymnal. No. 1. I REMEMBER CALVARY. Rev. W. MARTIN. J. M. BLACK. 1. Where He may lead me I will go, For I have learned to trust Him so, 3. +3 3 And I re-mem ber 'twas for me, That He was slain on Cal-va- ry. di- vine will is sweet to me, Hallowed by blood-stain'd Cal-va- ry. Je-sus my Friend of Cal-va- ry. |