Excerpt from Church MusicThe following pages are designed to bring some assistance, if it may be, to the parish priest who is conscious of his responsibility, but who realizes that he is handling a delicate and thorny matter. Often enough he is in the same case as one who has received the charge Of an ancient, lovely, ivy-clad church. A great affection has grown up around it, which extends from the church to the ivy. He fears that this grasping vegetable is crushing the life out Of the Old building, but he is unwilling to Offend tender, if sentimental, 'feelings. The time must come when the knife has to be called in. But it has to be used with care, lest, as in other reformations, the last state be worse than the first.He will be glad then of an opportunity of talking it over with one who has had difficulties similar to his own, and Is able to see the thing from his stand point.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.