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...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...
While discarding a number of sentimental Victorian horrors, the hymnal ecumenically includes several Roman Catholic canticles based on plain chant, along with hymns borrowed from Anglican, Lutheran and Presbyterian songbooks. In response to popular demand, in went Billy Graham's longtime favorite, How Great Thou Art. Out, at the request of Negro Methodist bishops, went Rudyard Kipling's Recessional, with its colonialist reference to "lesser breeds without the law"; the hymnal includes five Negro spirituals, carefully edited to exclude dialect wording. Reflecting the musical cross-fertilization inspired by church missionaries, there is one hymn (The Righteous Ones...
...first new hymnal for Methodists since 1935, the revision was ordered by the church's General Conference in 1960. To find out what worshipers wanted, the editors, headed by the Rev. Carlton Young of Dallas, polled 12,800 ministers and laymen, fed their answers into a computer. The result is a songbook that neatly balances tradition and innovation; among the 539 entries are 122 new texts, 119 new tunes...
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...