Excerpt from Ministers' Hand-Book to Lutheran Hymns, in the "Book of Worship"With the faultiness of the many indexes which we have care fully examined, it would be presumptuous to expect that no im~ perfections would be found in this, yet it may, with truth, be asserted, that with arduous labor and much care we have sought the greatest accuracy.But few changes have been made in the names of writers of hymns, and these only where the strongest authorities sided against the work of the General Synod's Committee.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.