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Clerical Chuckle. Unexpectedly and yet frequently the editors of the Christian Century use headlines that cause readers to chuckle. In their current issue they entitle a staid article about a hymnal and a metrical life of Christ in Arabic: "Hope Rhymes Will Win Moslems...
...with the germs of Socialism when young Ellis, preceded by a burst of beard which he never later relinquished, returned to it (1881) robust and whole in mind, body and spirit. He looked in at some meetings of the Progressive Association (forerunner of the Fabians); even compiled a Socialist hymnal omitting God's name; but lost active interest when an economic emphasis was put upon the movement. The young doctor-artist's concern was to become tactually, factually, acquainted with the physical side of the world whose spiritual side he had so deeply experienced...
...graduate of Mt. Holyoke College, she is author of the White Ribbon Hymnal...
Publications destroyed were: Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, The Christian Science Hymnal, the Unitarian Leader, Forbush's Life of Christ, books by Pastor Russell, and a magazine, Unity...
Some of his other accomplishments, however, are hardly less remarkable and may have had no little effect in preparing him for this final achievement. He is in fact the author of "The Academy Song Book". "The Abridged Academy Song Book". "The Students' Hymnal" and "The American Song Book", besides "The Forerunners and Competitors of the Pilgrim and Puritan". He should certainly not therefore be taken to task if his Prize Plan is, as some malevolent critics have implied, nothing but "The old sweet song...