School Praise

School Praise  Books with this title were published in 1885 and 1907 by the Presbyterian Church of England, founded in 1876. They were evidently designed to supplement the hymnbooks compiled for use by the denomination, Church Praise (1883) and its Revised Edition (1907). The music editors for both the 1885 collection and the 1907 School Praise were F.N. Abernethy and J.E. Borland. It was sub-titled ‘A Hymn-Book for the Young’.  The Preface informs the reader that the 1885 book ‘for a number of years had widespread usefulness’, but that ‘latterly it suffered from the competition of other collections larger in bulk and more varied in contents’ (p.iii). One of these collections was...