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Seven years ago the Methodist Church appointed a commission to revise its Hymnal, which had been in use since 1905. The commission expanded to 36 members -bishops, ministers, laymen-when the Methodist Church, South accepted an invitation to join and the Methodist Protestant Church begged to be allowed to collaborate too. In their labors the united commission, according to Secretary John William Langdale. "achieved a unity of mind and spirit which may be prophetic of the unification of the three communions" (TIME, Aug. 26). The new Hymnal, now to be official for 8,000,000 Methodists, was published last week...
...from being strictly evangelical, the Methodist hymnal contains a hymn by a Roman Catholic nun named Sister Mary Xavier and a hymn beginning Bless the four corners of this house by Arthur Guiterman, skittish versifier for magazines. It also contains some authentic poetry. Thus, Sidney Lanier: Into the woods my Blaster went, clean forspent, forspent; Into the woods my Master went, forspent with love and shame. But the olives they were not blind to him, The little grey leaves were kind to him, The thorn-tree had a mind to him, When into the woods he came...
...Crown thine ancient Church's story, bring her bud to glorious flower. Grant us wisdom, grant us courage. For the facing of this hour, for the facing of this hour. Thanks to Dean Robert Guy Mc-Cutchan of DePauw University, Methodists are given some tunes new to the hymnal. Against strong opposition, the commission voted to include Auld Lang Syne and the famed Irish Londonderry Air for hymns beginning It singeth low in every heart and Above the hills of time the Cross is gleaming. The broad, soaring principal theme of Jan Sibelius' tone poem Finlandia has been...
...25¢ Eucharistic Hymnal of which visitors to the Congress were supposed to make frequent use, 16 of its 70 hymns and chants were composed by Bishop Schrembs. German-born 69 years ago, the Bishop of Cleveland says that melody comes best to him when he is tired. He believes there should be more congregational singing at mass, has a good voice himself which he employed in the numerous radio-broadcasts he made publicizing the Congress. Perhaps the most satisfying feeling that overtook Bishop Schrembs this week was when vast throngs of people burst out with such of his hymns...
...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...