Word: hymnals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...freewheeling Sunday services, though Catholic in ritual, are heavily Black Baptist in flavor. Music Director Alexander Rankins, a Negro, pounds an old upright piano, leading the al-tarside choir in standard Negro spirituals and other numbers from three books on the piano: The Catholic Mass, The Baptist Standard Hymnal and Gospel Pearls. Father Putnam talks about the meaning of humility?"A humble man must be strong. Jesus taught us that" ?and recommends a play that some of the neighborhood's angry young blacks are presenting in the Dashiki Project Theater, for which the parish supplies space. The Mass closes...
...Teilhard de Chardin, Bonhoeffer, Barth, Kung and Tillich. One of his closest friends was Jesuit John Courtney Murray, and he frequently attended Mass, where he was fascinated by the changes in the liturgy and delighted to find Martin Luther's A Mighty Fortress Is Our God in the Catholic hymnal. He liked good singing and good preaching...
...often refers to him as "Charley." Visiting the L.B.J. ranch, Hamilton, 27, seemed to settle comfortably into a new role as member-of-the-family. Although he is a Christian Scientist, he joined the Johnsons for Sunday-morning services at the tiny Episcopal church in Blanco, dutifully held the hymnal as wide-eyed Lynda did her best to concentrate on the services. Afterward, while the President stood to one side, George, decked out in a Continental suit and buckled shoes, autographed church bulletins for tittering girls, later picnicked and water-skied with the family. At Randolph Field, getting ready...
...Methodists who ousted Kipling's Recessional from their hymnal [July 22] should have considered the comment of George Orwell (no friend of colonialism) on the line, "lesser breeds without the Law"; "This line is always good for a snigger in pansy-left circles. It is assumed as a matter of course that the 'lesser breeds' are 'natives,' and a mental picture is called up of some pukka sahib in a pith helmet kicking a coolie. In its context the sense of the line is almost the exact opposite of this. The phrase 'lesser breeds...
During the past century, every revision of the Methodist hymnal has tended to reduce its Wesleyan content. Reversing the trend, the 1966 edition includes 81 hymns by John and Charles Wesley, 20 more than the 1935 version contained. Also included is a nostalgic fundamentalist favorite that was left out of the previous hymnal because it did not suit the musical palate of the time: The Old Rugged Cross. All in all, proudly sums up the Rev. Nolan B. Harmon, retired Bishop of Western North Carolina and one of the supervising editors, "it's the greatest hymnal...