New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-14
TO USE NEW HYMNAL NEXT SUNDAY.
Calvary Church Has First Thousand Copies
of Methodist Song Book Here.

The new Methodist hymnaI has appeared and
advance orders OF half million copies have been
given Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church. 18th
st and 7th-ave.. has thousand copies, and they
will be used at next Sundays services
This new hymnal means much to Methodists al
over the country. 1t represents long and arduOus
work by a large committee. and one of the first
moves looking to its production made as far
back as 1900 when memorial asking for a new
hymnaI was signed by three men. one OF whom
was Leslie NJ. Shaw. now Secretary Of Treasury
but then Governor of Iowa and a lay delegate from
the ,1pper Iowa Conference OF the Methodls1 EplS-
copaI Church -.
I,or many wears protests had been made against
-, ~ the o1dtfme hymns being continued in the
t,T,sr especially the so-called bloody hymns.
ob as washed in the Blood Of the Lamb ana
many others -, 49,. 900,
az, bsbons were instructed TO appoint a coIini''ee
20 prepare the new hymnal. or take steps lo"alu
60 5oine and the two church bodies-the Metno
TSniscopal Church and the Methodist Ep'Scol'I
church south-quickly began TO cooperate I"s
latter had felt the need OF a new ny Iii'aI g -.
the Civil War. and the idea OF d 'O'-'
hook received general approval -.
A. the general conference in Baltimore III ma"
1q1q each body agreed TO appoint A coIill'lso =.
eleven men. This was done ana WON -, -
bee,,n Some of the committee were US - = :,
nearly all either had the title % 1L- 49,, r,usicsl
Pm D The board assisted py ~ -+,
o6itors-Professor Peter c. LutEln' OF E'
IN and Professor X. P. Harrington u N---
town, Conn. -. .,,+rv was
.rhe task was difficult. The entire Vou1. -s',,..,
represented and each member Oh INC sasi-ss
- -io,,s ~ nave the musical tastes and oesi.S
of the Methodists of his section representa- -.
new hy1nnaL still. there was little lI1C''C- 4,
,,nortan+ noints had to be considered ny i -.
the present collection which shoulu " - and
retained. new hymns which should DC '..-..s 70
hymns and tunes Whlch S44O1'
mutual advantage , .s,,,,,, con-
sidarsd-tbe Methodist Episcopal hyInnal' W. ~
more than eleven hundred hymns ana ina S-s nan
Methodist Episcopal Church SouCi AZ new hymn
~ 1,It niIt an old one two-thrds vote vas s1y
SaTy, x me Voted for a number of times. -,
4 subcommittee passed on many b,S a their text
airare1 before they could be acceptance 70 U.s.
North ana 5TnnaI contains III hymns besides th
tone special pieces About two hundred ahu LUtrs 90
hymns were not in the hyInnaI OF LStN eI' hvnln
bSan largely sung. The names or many rev LLs,si
writer's as well as old appear In the new ny md
Among the latter Charles Wesley comes ays has ths
his "Oh. for q thousand tongues 70 SING 60. ~ NE
place OF honor while III OF his hymns aIT asrv.
new Oo Philin Doddridge has twenty-five. and F. W
Faber "a Roman Cathohc) mas WE'VE 'S'"s
~ the poets represented who are not famous, a. a.
reIisiolls writer's there Rudyard klp.Ing ~
f BrEde Ie' Holmes waite scott John Hay RehaTa
Watson Glider and others John H Ii} Is Ki mi
hymn is No 40. ''Fhe RecessionaL' Mr. Slider 20
hymn t Is the first 9T, new Bs P Pps n the
1t is stated that the discussion resaTcLis Ins
ing Rudya n eo A1p IN sNsnGeay and other poems
which anything but religious IN tone; W accept
ance of hymns by F. ". Faber. the Roman o@'"''
lie also strong -. x,o-t VEL
come the new hymnal. They think u VIII vii, liz and
the bonds Of union between the NorIIls as have
a broadening and strengthening result seneL@-S--