Word: hymning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Britishers sing part of Pomp and Circumstance as a patriotic hymn. It starts...
Dear Sir: . . . My organist insists upon dragging his fingers over four or five keys, like an upward run, at least twice in each hymn stanza. He will not play the harmony as is, but manufactures harmonies of his own, with many fancy chromatic chords. His harmony is always thin, and lacking the power of the original as given in the hymn book. . . . He uses his tremolo too much, and drives everybody nearly to tears by his abuse of the chimes. Now he insists upon adding a Vox Humana stop to the organ. If I chant the Communion Service...
...gondola crashed and the three aeronauts were killed instantly." A mournful sigh swept like a wave through the hall. Then: "It seems the disaster was complete-not only the pilots but the gondola and its scientific apparatus were utterly lost." Spontaneously the delegates rose, chanted the stirring Soviet hymn to the dead. But outside on the streets jubilant paraders continued proudly to congratulate each other on Russia's latest triumph. They were not to know the truth until next day's morning newspapers. But even then they could not know the whole truth. Nobody could. There...
...Berlin's Church of St. Paul the Apostle the No. 1 Emergency Pastor, Rev. Martin Niemoeller, urged 1,000 blue-clad boys of the Pastor's newly-formed German Bible Circle to "Resist! Resist! Resist!" Bravely chanting the Protestant youth hymn ending "Ever Faithful to God!" the adolescents marched out of the church, attempted to parade. Menaced by brawny Prussian police, they rolled up their banners, put away their band instruments, scurried home. Priests had been sent to prison camps, despite the fact that Chancellor Hitler is nominally a Catholic. Not to be downed, the Catholic Bishop...
...course. Aldous Huxley, in his picture of the future, "Brave New World," paints a modernized world where one of the Gods is Ford; that surely, will be the final step in a great career. Perhaps it will be well to close this with a hymn, devoutly brought to us out of the future by Mr. Huxley; the emphasis on "human values" is quite evident in this hymn...