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Last week the Académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Bordeaux was calling for a song to make Frenchmen drink more wine. In dead earnest it posted a 5,000-franc ($300) prize for the best Hymn to the Wine of Bordeaux, with words and music, submitted before April 12 by a person of French birth...
...proposed that occasionally the pastors, choir directors and organists of a town, or in districts of cities, make plans to mass the choirs of the several churches and meet together in a community service of hymn worship. . . . Hymns of spiritual power and tested worth should be chosen. While the choirs may lead, all the people present should be instructed to join in the festival hymns. . . . Dignity, strength and power may be brought to the service if it closes with the noble strains of the 'Te Deum,' a confession of faith as well as an ascription of praise...
Last week these observations on hymns were made public by 79-year-old Dr. Wilbur Patterson Thirkield, retired Methodist bishop and chairman of the Commission on Worship of the Federal Council of Churches. Onetime president of Gammon Theological Seminary (Atlanta) and of Howard University (Negro, in Washington), Bishop Thirkield is a doughty crusader against bad hymns and gory ones. Aware that the average congregation sings only 25 different hymns a year, Bishop Thirkield has drawn up two sample types of Hymn Festivals which include a great variety of words and music, each identified with a central theme. The Militant, Conquering...
...friend we ha-ave in Jesus. ..." Near him were half a dozen men and women whose features rhythmically moved in quickly-changing contortions. Their arms rose and fell, their fingers wiggling in concerted movement. Only sound in the church was the creaky tenor voice. When the hymn ended, the gesticulations of the half dozen people ended and the audience -So deaf-mutes-broke into spirited applause. The pastor of Cameron Methodist Episcopal Church of the Deaf, Rev. August H. Staubitz, arose. With lightning fingers he signaled his flock that they were about to behold a lecture on the Passion Play...
...Britishers sing part of Pomp and Circumstance as a patriotic hymn. It starts...