Copyright, 1903, by THORO LARRIS,

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

FROM THE ESTATE OF
REV. CHARLES HUTCHINS

MAY 24, 1939

PREFACE.

“ECHOES OF PARADISE” is the fruit of an effort to

meet the steadily increasing demand for a hymnal that shall fulfil all the requirements of the most advanced standard of musical taste. If, as one writer has felicitously observed, "the mighty harmony whose first full pulse almost burst the enraptured musician's heart descended through dim distances from the angel choir,” then this book is not inappropriately named.

A special acknowledgment of indebtedness is due the REV. J. E. RANKIN, D.D., for the free use of valuable copyrighted music.

THE COMPILER.

C. H. WOODMAN, MUSIC TYPOGRAPHER, BOSTON,