Book excerpt: Excerpt from Kindergarten Stories for the Sunday School and Home The spirit of reverence is often destroyed by the gestures which are introduced with the songs. Miss Beard, in her pamphlet entitled Music in the Prim ary Sunday School, emphasizes the fact that ges tures, as a rule, detract from, rather than add to, the helpfulness of the songs. In an introductory chapter to her book, The Kindergarten Sunday School, she offers many helpful suggestions regarding the music in the Kindergarten. In singing, though the words are of supreme im portance and should not only be such as to impress the desired truth, but also should be so simple as to come easily within the child's comprehension, the musical setting is likewise essential. Unfortunately, there is still a lack of good Sunday School music and for my stories I have frequently been obliged to suggest songs for the sake of the words, though the music was unsatisfactory. Too many songs should not be given, as it is bet ter to have a few thoroughly learned than many only partially committed. Though new songs have some times been suggested on successive Sundays, it has been intended that a choice should be made from them, not that all should be used. In order to prevent self-consciousness, it is rarely wise to ask individual children to sing or speak. 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.