Religion: New Hymnal

For three years a joint commission representing the Methodist Episcopal Church, Methodist Episcopal Church, South and the Methodist Protestant Church has been working on a revised hymnal and psalter. One group studied words, another music. This week the full commission was to meet at Cincinnati to join the efforts of the two groups, ratify the changes recommended by each.

To a 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...

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