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...Presbyterians next laid plans to recall the fact that Presbyterian foreign missions were instituted a century ago. From this spring to next autumn the centenary will be celebrated with a pageant, a play, many a speech and a broadcast dinner. To the Centennial Council it seemed that a special hymn was needed for their occasion and for one they offered $50. Last week three Presbyterian judges announced the winner from among 200 entries. Title: God of Years, Thy Love Hath Led Us, by Dr. Jay Glover Eldridge, dean of the faculty of the University of Idaho...
...stripped to the waist, scrubbed their faces, brushed their teeth, composed themselves for a short nap. That night they made the little college town gasp at their sweet voices and expert phrasing. Students, teachers and farmers from 100 miles around listened reverently to da Vittoria's 16th-Century hymn to the King of Heaven. The Singing Boys made it as simple and severe as the black robes they wore while singing...
...girl choir sang these strange, loose lines of melody with dignity and devotion. Listeners found them equally able when they undertook the complicated part-writing of Orlandus de Lassus and Tallis. They thrilled when the girls implored God's mercy in a hymn which flagellants are said to" have howled along German roads in the plague year...
...long ago and welcome in the Second World War. "Onward Christian Soldiers" comes forth from them and the piano to mingle with the crash of bombs and the tinkle of glass in the sporadically lit-up darkness. But in with the searing cynicism of their rendition of the martial hymn, there is somehow a terrible heroism. And the theme of the play, if we may be allowed to extract it out of the molten swirl of observations on Communism, Fascism, the League of Nations, Germany, Italy, England, the Middle West, yea-man hot stuff, is that men, despite the foul...
...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