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Richard Norman Clark, Jr. '32, of Atlanta, Georgia, submitted the verses for the hymn which will be sung on the occasion of the Sunday service at which President Lowell delivers the Baccalaureate Sermon, this year to be held on June 19 at 4 o'clock in Sanders Theatre. The winners will receive free Class Day tickets...
...Hymn-Writer Watts, a gentle, humorless metaphor-mixer, wrote many & many a hymn. Probably he never pictured to himself a Christian, with spotted soul under his arm, flying to the fountain as to a gory laundry. But modern Methodists, sincere as any one in accepting the allegory of the Blood Atonement, raise their eyebrows at the language in which it was couched. Currently a number of hymns by Watts and the Wesleys are slated for omission from a revised hymnal prepared by a joint commission of three Methodist Episcopal Churches (TIME, March 14). To young people they are "revolting," says...
...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...
Tentatively included for the first time in the Methodist Hymnal, which will draw upon all faiths in its selections, are Poet John Greenleaf Whittier's "All Things Are Thine," and the hymn of St. Francis of Assisi which begins...