Word: hymned
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...After a hymn, the seminarians streamed away to their classes. Like the Barnabases of the last 20 centuries, they would help keep the church going, though few of them would be remembered beyond their own generation...
...want Philip!" chanted some of the crowd. "We want grandpa!" cried others. Some began singing Pack Up Your Troubles and All the Nice Girls Love a Sailor. Then the whole crowd had squared away in the inevitable British hymn of love, For He's a Jolly Good Fellow...
Chanted over & over to the accompaniment of clapping hands, this Song of Ram has for generations been Hinduism's most popular hymn. It was a favorite with Gandhi, who believed that mere repetition of the name of the god Ram was an effective means of banishing fear. Gandhi added two lines of his own to the song: "Ishvar [Hindustani for God] and Allah are both thy names; give wisdom to all." Gandhi encouraged the use of the amended version to promote Hindu-Moslem harmony...
Recently the Song of Ram has pointed up another disharmony-Moslems & Hindus v. Christians. In the dusty railway town of Jhansi, 225 miles south of Delhi, students of the Christian High School asked permission to sing the hymn during their daily prayers. School authorities refused, on the grounds that it would be inappropriate to worship non-Christian gods in a Christian institution. Representatives of the 800 students promptly protested that they merely wanted to do the will of Gandhi, who "died not only for India but for the whole of mankind...
...trooped back to class after the Dusehra festival vacation, there were prayer meetings for them in all the town's other schools. And, though Christian High School's prayer hall was kept closed, students marched out of their drab yellow school building and defiantly sang the forbidden hymn in the yard...