ONGS OF SALVATION to God for his redeeming love in Jesus Christ. Let us tune voices of praise with hearts of gratitude in thanksgiving to him whose mercy endureth for ever.

Let the worthy song of praise ascend to the ear of the Most High, borne on the melody of devotional music. Let the school, the church, the family, ring merrily with the psalm of joy bursting forth from souls overflowing with gratitude for pardon, for peace, for hope of eternal life.

We will not only "make a joyful noise unto the Lord," but we will sing with the spirit, and with the understanding also." Our songs shall be rich with the spirit of the word of God, and we will begin each one with a passage of his revealed will. Let us sing WORK SONGS to tell us of the "strength by the way which he gives us; to cheer us as we labor; to stimulate us to new deeds of love, and of sacrifice for him who hath given himself for us.

In our WELCOME SONGS we sound the invitations of saving grace into the ear of the stranger to God, and we sing of the fulness of the mercy with which we are bidden into the "banqueting house" where "his banner over us is love."

We raise our FAITH AND HOPE SONGS, to sing of the "full assurance of faith" which is every Christian's joy, and of the hope "which entereth into that within the vail."

As we pray we will unite in PRAYER SONGS, to lift our requests to the mercy-seat in the notes of song, and to breathe into our hearts the spirit with which we should bring our petitions to our Father and our Saviour.

In PRAISE SONGS we will join in the gladdest ascriptions of "blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honor, and power, and might, unto our God."

Our JOY SONGS will carry from our hearts our glad notes of joy and thanksgiving for the light, the blessing, the salvation, which we have from God in Christ Jesus.

And in our HEAVEN SONGS, we will sing of the coming rest and the hoped-for glory. We will praise our God for the gift of song to help us on our heavenward march, to lighten our footsteps as we travel, to point us to the purchased glory.

In these SONGS OF SALVATION we have drawn both. from the treasure-houses of old and well-tried songs of praise, and from the newer contributions to the service of song in the house of the Lord. We have faithfully endeavored to exclude that which is absurd and trifling in poetry, as well as that which is undevotional in music. We have tried to provide that which may be sung with holy joy and with spiritual profit, in the Sunday school, the family, the church, and wherever God's children are gathered for praise, for prayer, or study.

May the entrance of God's word give light to our hearts; may his love inspire us as we sing his praise; may his grace richly dwell in us, and minister to us a holy joy in ascribing salvation to his name. And when we are done with the imperfections of earthly music, may we join that choir who shall sing the glad "new song" without an incomplete chord or a discordant note.

"SALVATION unto our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb."