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NUMBER 9 than a score of years." Root added that Bliss's "unselfish devotion to his work made for him such friends while he lived and such mourners when he died as few men have ever had.

Another and later evaluation would have it that Bliss's songs, when "judged by the standards of art," were "decidedly inferior, but the masses could understand and sing them, and their melody, martial note, joyousness, and hope produced the religious exhilaration desired." An even more