Word: hymnals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know Seth Parker and his neighbors as well as if they were real people and not radio-performers employed by National Broadcasting Co. From the comparative obscurity of a provincial broadcasting station three years ago, Seth Parker has become-by means of a weekly nation-wide hookup, a published hymnal, many a magazine article, a cinema entertainment and a cross-country tour-one of the leading U. S. exponents of homely piety...
Hardboiled Variety has called it "a saintly picnic, a slice of sweetness, a glorification of the humble and the familiar." Fortuitous though his creation was, Seth Parker has gained a radio following greater even than that of august Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman. Says the preface to his hymnal: "Seth Parker believes that religion is tangible; that it is a kind word, a thoughtful deed and is not something apart from every day life. He has probably done more to make religion a part of the American home than has any other...
...deepen the religious consciousness of U. S. Reformed Jewry, to improve their congregational singing, a committee of ten rabbis has been working for the last five years on a revised Jewish Hymnal. Rabbi Louis Wolsey of Philadelphia, chairman of the committee, announced last week the completion of "Songs and Prayers of Jewish Worship," to be submitted next month to the Central Conference of American Rabbis, representing 400 Reformed Jewish Congregations. Less "oriental," less burdened with pathos than Orthodox Jewish music,* which Rabbi Wolsey calls "a pretentious attempt to revive the Jewish religious life of Palestine," the new Reformed hymnal aims...
...From Greenland's icy mountains to India's coral strand"-the Hymnal's measure of distance; not so TIME'S who adds many more miles to its scope; also the air and the depths of the earth...
...Last week at Providence, R. I., the Central Conference of Rabbis (Reformed) voted to include the Zionist anthem "Hatikvah" in their union Hymnal...