AN AID TO DEVOTION. BY THOMAS W. SILLOWAY. MUSIC ARRANGED BY LEONARD MARSHALL. BOSTON: N. E. UNIVERSALIST PUBLISHING HOUSE, No. 37 CORNHILL, BX 9953 INTRODUCTORY. THE use of a liturgical service in the society at Brighton, over which the compiler was pastor, suggested the preparation of a new work containing such amendments as would adapt it to permanent use. It having been urged by many of our clergymen that the work should not be restricted to use alone in the parish for which it was compiled, it is, in accordance with their desires, presented to the public, in the hope that it may find its way into many other societies, and prove itself an efficient aid to devotion. The selections from the Psalms include those sentences only that are best adapted to devotional uses. and they are arranged to be read and chanted in alternation by the minister and people and the choir. Care has been taken to have some of the selections adapted to particular days and occasions; thus, that for the First Day is appropriate to New Year; that for the Fourth, to our National Independence; that for the Twenty-Fifth, to Christmas, etc., while at the same time they are not inappropriate to the corresponding day of any month. The music for the work has been prepared by Prof. L. Marshall, the well-known composer, and director of music at Tremont Temple in this city, and all the chants not accredited to others were composed by him, and are secured by copyright to this work. The simplicity of the work renders any special explanation unnecessary. To insure success in using it, and interest in the services, it is only needful that the responses be given with promptness and distinctness of utterance, and in the spirit of true worship. That it may prove to all who use it what it is designed to be, "an aid to devotion," is the sincere desire of the compiler. T. W. S. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts. |