TABLE OF CONTENTS
[Introduction] 9 [Chapter I. Let’s Sing] 13 [1. They Sang with the Marine Band] [2. Song of the Chaplain’s Wife] [3. Our Popular Processional Hymn] [4. Heard Lauder’s Song and Wesley’s Hymn] [5. The Hymn with Exclamation Points] [Chapter II. Morning Melodies] 25 [1. The Morning Call] [2. Morning Hymn on an Ocean Voyage] [3. Morning Songs Fill the Day with Music] [4. Hymn Suggested by a “Blaze of Leafage”] [Chapter III. Sunset Songs] 32 [1. Nature Gave the Perfect Touch] [2. The Bells of Trinity] [3. Singing Soldiers] [4. Hymn Discussion at Oyster Bay] [Chapter IV. Serenading the Soul With Song] 39 [1. That Was Yesterday!] [2. Song of the Hidden Singer] [3. Americans Sang with the Japanese Lady] [4. Northfield’s Festival of Sacred Music] [Chapter V. Hymns of Comfort] 47 [1. God’s Angels in Charge] [2. Singing Welshmen at Oxford] [3. Singing Amid Suffering] [4. Songs of a Sorrowing Nation] [Chapter VI. Occasions To Remember] 58 [1. “Abide With Me” in a Submarine] [2. Wheel Chair Singers] [3. Sang the Hymn from Memory] [4. Hymn Expressed the Hearer’s Feelings] [5. Hymn of the Homesick American] [6. His Ordination Hymn] [7. Soldiers Sang at Their General’s Funeral] [Chapter VII. Hymns That Changed Lives] 71 [1. When Catherine Booth Made the Great Decision] [2. His Song and Experience in a Coal Mine] [3. Decision of the “Incorrigible”] [4. The Hymn That Wrought a Miracle] [Chapter VIII. Songs of Childhood and Youth] 80 [1. Song of the Child in the Shelter] [2. What the Scouts Sang] [3. “Jesus Bids Us Shine”] [4. Men Loved the Kiddies’ Hymn] [Chapter IX. Sang in Their Own Tongues] 87 [1. Chinese and Americans Sang a Negro Spiritual] [2. Christmas Carols in Two Tongues] [3. “Everybody Knows ‘Holy Night’”] [4. Unifying Influence Of Song at Eastertide] [Chapter X. Patriotic Music in War and Peace] 93 [1. Surprise for American Soldiers] [2. “America the Beautiful” Heard at Arlington] [3. An American Home on Invasion Day] [4. “Our God is Marching On!”] [5. “The Star-Spangled Banner” at War’s End] [6. Kipling’s “Recessional”] [Chapter XI. Thanksgiving in Song] 105 [1. Two Statesmen Sang “America”] [2. Gunner Led the Song Of Praise] [3. Minister Thrilled by Singing of Philadelphia Laymen] [4. “We Love the Place”] [5. Memorable Rendering of the Doxology] [Chapter XII. Carols at Christmastide] 115 [1. Christmas Carols on Deck of Battleship] [2. Christmastide Song of Blind Singers] [3. Not Too Late to Hear the Christmas Music] [4. Carol the Children Wanted] [Chapter XIII. The Cross and the Church] 121 [1. Building Gone, but Hymn Remains] [2. An Army with Banners] [3. Church Cross Inspired Grocer’s Song] [4. Visiting Singer Familiar with the Hymn] [Chapter XIV. Easter With the Hymnal] 127 [1. Easter Song of a Centenarian] [2. Easter in New Guinea] [3. Eastertide Hymn at an Easter Funeral] [4. Mother’s Hymn at Eventide] [Bibliography] 135 [Index of Hymns] 137