Word: hymnals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...English is nothing but a bowdlerized version with all the more violent passages purged. When a group of Frenchmen put the full text into French last year, Battler Hitler sued them in the French courts, obtained an injunction. His theory: it is good for Germans to read his hymnal of hate, bad for Germans to have foreigners read...
...Psalter-Hymnal." U.P.'s have their choice of droning through often unmusical Psalm music or singing more spirited hymn music...
Merry Mount started off with a promising overture, stanch and hymnal. After that the orchestra seemed capable of only the most commonplace description. The Hell scene was noisy but unexciting. Bradford's passion for Marigold was expressed by a theme startlingly like "Limehouse Blues." The Puritan chorus had the richest music but it sang so often, intoned so many ''Amens" that at times the opera seemed more like a cantata, more suitable for a concert performance such as it received last spring in Ann Arbor (TIME...
...fountain as to a gory laundry. But modern Methodists, sincere as any one in accepting the allegory of the Blood Atonement, raise their eyebrows at the language in which it was couched. Currently a number of hymns by Watts and the Wesleys are slated for omission from a revised hymnal prepared by a joint commission of three Methodist Episcopal Churches (TIME, March 14). To young people they are "revolting," says the commission's Secretary, Dr. John William Langdale...
Declared Dr. Langdale to the Methodist ministers who heard the proposed changes: "You might as well make up your minds that there will not be universal satisfaction in the new hymnal...