Word: hymning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Blood of the Lamb," and ask you to put in with The Faith. One of those guys gave me the rap once and I was about to hop over when my brother hissed a "Beat it," out of the side of his mouth without missing a bar of the hymn. The guy beat it, too. So I never was saved. But if it ever happened I'd like Ironside to be in on it. He lays it solid. ROBERT FENDER
...regular feature cartoon entitled "Pete,'' familiarly known as "Policy Pete." Pete and his friend say nothing about numbers, but innocently and irrelevantly included in the cartoon are two numbers, presumably suggestions for the day's play. Colored pastors often note with regret that after a hymn is announced there is a rustle in the congregation as the number of the hymn is hastily jotted down for the next day's play. Sometimes certain numbers get so "hot" that the bankers refuse to take plays on them. Famed...
Honorable Mention was received by John A. Moore '38, writing on "The Homeric Hymn to Pan." Other papers were read by John G. Conley '38, Robert J. Cumming '38, and Daniel T. Skinner...
...Moody met a hymn-singing Collector of Internal Revenue named Ira D. Sankey. "Where are you from?" exploded Moody. "What is your business? You will have to give that up. I have been looking for you for the past eight years." Though they actually wrote few hymns, Moody & Sankey became as famed as Gilbert & Sullivan through promoting such collections as Gospel Hymns & Sacred Songs. At one time their hymns earned $35,000 royalties in a few months. In 1873-75 the evangelists toured the British Isles, spoke and sang before 2,500,000 people...
...ground up he established the East Northfield schools and conferences, the Moody Bible Institute which still flourishes in Chicago, keeps a radio soul-saving service going all day long. Though the British and U. S. Press often accused Moody & Sankey of personally profiting by their work, most of the hymn royalties went into Moody's institutions. When he died of heart disease in 1899 his estate was worth $500. Sankey, whose voice had already grown old and thin, lingered nine years longer...