Word: hymning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gathering of Methodist ministers in Manhattan last week Dr. John William Langdale, secretary of the commission, revealed the additions and deletions in the hymnal of 1905 which the words group would propose at the Cincinnati meeting. To many moderns, Dr. Langdale explained, the "imagery of blood" in oldtime hymns is distasteful. As the kind of thing the commission would put out of the revised hymnal he read a stanza from "The Gospel," by Isaac Watts, 18th Century hymn-writer...
...aristocrats-every class except government (antireligious) officials -were present to do honor to Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe, patron saint of Mexico. With smashing crescendo of clanging bells, electric illuminations, masses, there will be celebrated this week the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. There is an especially composed Guadalupe Hymn. Next year has been officially designated Guadalupe Year. In the archdiocese of Guadalajara, all female infants baptized in 1931 have been named Guadalupe, all boys José Guadalupe. This, by the archbishop's decree, has caused considerable confusion but much pious feeling...
Poet Putnam closes his rugged, colorful work with a Hymn to Chance...
Following the prayer by the chaplain the University Choir will sing the Harvard Hymn. Shorey will then speak on "American Loyalties" and this, after a choir selection, will be followed by the reading of the poem "The Three Pharaohs". Another hymn and a benediction by the chaplain will close the meeting...
Music for the exercises on Saturday, which will commence at noon, will be furnished by members of the University choir, under the direction of A. T. Davison '06. The choir will sing the Harvard Hymn, by John Knowles Paine, "Adoramus Te," by Palestrina, and "To God on High be Thanks and Praise" by Decius...