...enjoyment of, and love for, home ! and in drawing his heart upward to heaven, to holiness, to God. Some one has said, " Let me make the songs of a people, and I care not who makes their laws." Certainly there is a power in national songs that would almost warrant such an expression....

...this subject? What is the influence of a song? Is there any philosophy in the oft-quoted sent1ment, " Let me make the songs of a people, and I care not who makes their laws?" Discuss religious poetry. Should we sing more or less? Should all the people sing? Is...

...this subject? What is the influence of a song? Is there any philosophy in the oft-quoted sentiment, " Let me make the songs of a people, and I care not who makes their laws?" Discuss religious poetry. Should we sing more or less? Should all the people sing? Is...

...That to him was pleasing diversion, amusement. A close observer embodied true philosophy in the words, "Let me make the songs of a people, and I care not who makes their laws." Songs and hymns are, in the main, addressed to the sensibilities. They appeal to feeling...

...influences of Babylon, a sacred love for the fatherland. He who said. " Give me the exclusive right to make the songs of a people, and I care not who makes their laws," was a wise man, — provided he knew how to make songs. ига.] The denunciatory sentences...

...stories briefly told in connection. No evenings proved more enjoyable or, perhaps, more useful. As one has said, " Let me make the songs of a people, and I care not who makes the laws ;" so we may say that if we can get people to sing well we are certainly doing something,...

...much as any company of people anywhere could well say. I recollect that some writer said, long ago, " Let me make the songs of a people, and I care not who makes 'their laws." You are not, perhaps, making the songs of the people, but you are singing the songs of...

...Religion should not be shut up in the dark dungeon of the soul. 4. The importance of hymns and music. " Let me make the songs of a people, and I care not who makes the laws." 5. (V. 17.) The Christian life is all for Christ, all in Christ, a&with Christ, all by Christ....

...Americans) and they too, respond to the common bond and American behavior is the result. "Let one write the songs of a people and I care not who makes its laws,"32 is psychologically sound. Patrick, who had been in America but a short time, was very much...

...state ; they assimilate, without noticing it, the views of the author. Two hundred years ago some one said, ' Let me make the songs of a people and I care not who makes their laws.' If he were living now, he would wish to write their novels. The novels which any one author...