Excerpt from Studies of Familiar Hymns When Dr. Ray Palmer, late in life, came to narrate the origin of his youthful hymn, My Faith Looks Up to Thee, he explained that he would feel no little delicacy in so doing, were it not that in one way and another it has happened that very inaccurate, and in some instances wholly apocryphal, things have been reported concerning it. It has furnished quite a striking illustration of the difficulty of transmitting verbally, with entire accuracy, a few simple facts, from one person to ...
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Excerpt from Studies of Familiar Hymns When Dr. Ray Palmer, late in life, came to narrate the origin of his youthful hymn, My Faith Looks Up to Thee, he explained that he would feel no little delicacy in so doing, were it not that in one way and another it has happened that very inaccurate, and in some instances wholly apocryphal, things have been reported concerning it. It has furnished quite a striking illustration of the difficulty of transmitting verbally, with entire accuracy, a few simple facts, from one person to another. Slight inaccuracies, rhetorical statements, and the imaginations of writers or speakers, he goes on to say, have some times combined to form quite an unauthentic history of its origin. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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