The American Presbyterian And Theological Review Vol 10

Excerpt from The American Presbyterian and Theological Review, Vol. 10: April, 1865 The Reformation, as a vigorous outburst of the Christian life, gave a powerful impulse to hymn-writing. While the fifteen centuries before the Reformation produced not over one thousand hymns, the three hundred years since the Re formation have, in the German language alone, produced, ao cording to Dr. Alt, about eighty thousand. Dr. Phelps sets down the number of English hymns at thirty thousand. Oth er languages also contain large numbers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.