Service Songs Christian Hymnal Piano Choir Songbook E O Excell 1910s Antique For Sale

• More than 100 years old, here is a classic and early 20th-century Christian service hymnbook!
• Service Songs is a gospel hymnal for congregational worship and choir use, presenting vocal scores with piano or organ-style accompaniment in standard round-note staff notation.
• Music is laid out in hymn-style melody and four-part harmony with complete lyric underlay, suitable for mixed choir, congregational singing, and keyboard players.
• The collection opens with No. 1 \'Service Is Our Watchword\' by Wm. Shaw and Jno. R. Clements, copyright 1913 by E O Excell, setting the theme of Christian service and dedication.
• Representative selections include \'My Father Knows,\' \'He Leadeth Me,\' \'I Steal Away to Thee,\' \'How Can I Keep From Singing?,\' \'The Way of the Cross Leads Home,\' \'Somebody Knows,\' and \'Tell Me the Old, Old Story.\'
• Further favorites shown include \'Take the Name of Jesus With You,\' \'O That Will Be Glory,\' \'His Love Is All I Need,\' \'Softly and Tenderly,\' \'God Be With You,\' \'Jesus Is Passing This Way,\' and \'Standing on the Promises.\'
• Later pages feature triumphant and patriotic hymns such as \'All Hail, Immanuel!,\' \'Onward, Christian Soldiers,\' \'It Came Upon the Midnight Clear,\' \'What a Friend,\' \'America (My Country, \'Tis of Thee),\' \'International Hymn,\' and \'We Thank Thee, Lord.\'
• Song copyrights range from the late nineteenth century through 1917, with many pieces crediting E O Excell for words, music, or copyright alongside writers like Chas. H. Gabriel, W. H. Doane, Robert Lowry, and others.
• In addition to more than 250 numbered hymns, the volume includes a section of biblical \'Responsive Readings\' for leader and congregation, covering themes such as a scriptural opening, the Shepherd Psalm, righteousness, and salvation.
• Alphabetical indices at the back organize first lines and titles with corresponding hymn numbers, reaching at least page 232 and listing familiar songs such as \'Bringing in the Sheaves,\' \'Count Your Blessings,\' \'Blessed Assurance,\' and many more.
• Cloth-covered boards in plain green, published in the United States as a religious and devotional piano and choir songbook ideal for church musicians, hymnologists, and collectors of early American gospel music.

• Condition: Over 100 years old, this precious antique clothbound gospel hymnbook is obviously in heavily used, fragile condition. Green cloth boards are present with heavy surface rubbing, staining, frayed edges, and a completely missing spine covering that exposes the binding cords and leaves the text block partially loose. Interior pages are age toned with scattered spots, smudges, small edge tears and chips, occasional corner losses, margin nicks, and a few small punched holes near the inner edge. Some gatherings are loosened at the spine, but indices, responsive readings, and numbered hymns remain together and the printed music and text are still fully readable for study or reference.

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