A NEW COLLECTION OF SUNDAY SCHOOL SONGS WRITTEN EXPRESSLY FOR THIS WORK, MANY OF WHICH ARE THE LATEST COMPOSITIONS OF

PUBLISHED BY BIGLOW & MAIN, 425 BROOME STREET,

(SUCCESSORS TO WM. B. BRADBURY.)

IVISON, PHINNEY, BLAKEMAN & CO., No. 47 Greene Street,
AND FOR SALE BY BOOKSELLERS GENERALLY.

Entered according to act of Congress, A. D. 1869, by BIGLOW & MAIN, in the Clerk's office of the U. S. Dist. Court for the Southern Dist. of

New York.

GREETING.

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From the old and well-known House which has already supplied the Sunday Schools of our land with 4,000,000 of Music Books, we greet you with a new Song Book of "BRIGHT JEWELS," to aid you in your blessed employment. We have aimed to make it worthy of acceptance among those to whom spirituality of thought and purity of expression are among the chief elements of value in Sunday School song.

The Superintendent and the Chorister will find in this collection of "BRIGHT JEWELS" abundant and fitting material for the Sunday School Session, the Prayer Meeting, the Musical Exercise and the Anniversary. If we have not succeeded in meeting every taste in every particular, we have at least endeavored to project our work on the plane of a high-toned Christian sentiment.

In this cluster of "BRIGHT JEWELS" may be found hymns of the Advent and the Resurrection; hymns of Penitence and of Faith; hymns of Activity and of Repose; hymns of Precept and of Experience; hymns of Earth and of Heaven; hymns for the Christian child, the mature believer, and the unconverted.

It has not been deemed advisable to introduce in “BRIGHT JEWELS" any considerable number of the "old standards," which are supposed to be in possession of all our Sunday Schools. The hymns and tunes in this work have been almost entirely prepared expressly for it; and Sunday Schools may rely on not being obliged to repurchase large quantities of material which they have already used in a variety of forms. The contents of the book are almost wholly fresh and new.

If a hymn in "BRIGHT JEWELS" does not seem to reflect the mind of every singer, do not, on that account, pass it by. We sing our common songs in the Sanctuary, though the words may not express the experience of every worshipper. We teach our children the Lord's Prayer, though the language may not be the expression of the child's consciousness. We hope to provide the child with a framework which his own experience will fill up by-and-by.

Some choice effusions of Wm. B. BRADBURY, never before published, lend their lustre to "BRIGHT JEWELS," and claim a place with his well-established favorites. In these posthumous productions of the lamented composer will be recognized the voice of one who ་་ being dead, yet speaketh" in that mellifluous tone so familiar in all the Sunday Schools of the land.

The melodies of W. H. DOANE, T. E. PERKINS and others, have already found a welcome in the circles in which they have been sung; while the hymns of well-known writers, as well as those whose authors have preferred to suppress their names, will prove themselves acceptable to the lovers of Sunday School song.

And now, with a prayer that this book may contribute in some degree to the glory of God, the Editors renew their greeting to their FELLOW-WORKERS IN THE SUNDAY SCHOOL, and express the hope that all who take these fresh songs on the fresh lips of youth, may be found, when the Lord cometh, among His

WARREN Music Stereotyper,

"BRIGHT JEWELS."

SPECIAL NOTICE

The music and poetry of nearly every piece in this book is COPYRIGHT PROPERTY, and is "entered" as required by law. No person therefore has a right to print in any form, or for any purpose whatever, either words or music without first obtaining permission from the publishers.

We have tried to have our Sunday School friends understand this matter, by printing the above notice on all our publications; but we are sorry to find, that in many instances, our rights have been utterly disregarded. Hymns and tunes have been selected from our books and printed for Sunday Schools without any attempt at obtaining our consent to use them. This course is morally as well as legally wrong. It costs us a great deal of time and money to collect the material for a Sunday School Music Book; and the low price at which we furnish it, in order to place it within the reach of the poorest Sunday School, requires that a large number should be sold before we can be reimbursed for the original outlay; and hence, whenever a Sunday School is supplied with selections from our popular books, whether they are printed on a card and entitled "Song Roll," or in any other shape, we are injured to that extent. We have no doubt, that in most instances, this has been done innocently, and with no design to defraud us; but in self-defence we shall be obliged, in future, to take legal steps to prevent this unauthorized appropriation of our property, including all the compositions of the late WM. B. Bradbury.

BIGLOW & MAIN.