# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S444
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

444 PUBLICATION MATTERS

today and that more and more people, particularly the yo
our land, object to the vulgarism and indignities to whi
Christian worship has been subjected in their churches. :
other hand, the average American is not interested in an
type of “high church” activities.

Because of the excellency and the vastness of our Lut
heritage in church music, hymnody, and liturgics, others 0
to us Lutherans for guidance and for help. Concordia Pub
House informs us that it sells very much of its church music to:
Lutherans who desire good materials. The noted American:
nologist Henry Wilder Foote, D.D., in a recent (1952) p
of The Hymn Society of America which bears the title
American Hymnody, states in his opening sentence: “Th
fifteen years have seen the publication of more well-edited £
ican hymnbooks than appeared in any like period in our
history. . . .”. Among these hymnbooks he lists our La
Hymnal, concerning which he remarks on p. 16: “. . . the boo
excellent qualities. It is probably the best available colle
translations of classic Lutheran hymns from many sourceg®
Congregations outside the Lutheran tradition have general]
slow to accept chorales, except a few well-known ones, bu
hymnal editors will do well to examine carefully the m
treasures here presented.” In his recent (1952) book,
Music — Illusion and Reality, Archibald T. Davison, form
of the School of Music of Harvard University, sings the pr
Lutheran chorales as ideal worship hymns; he also states (p
however, that time has to a great extent expunged hymns,
are sensuous, sentimental, and intensely emotional in ch
the very type of hymns which the editors of the best hymnalg
lished in America within the past fifteen years, including
theran Hymnal, have not incorporated into their hymnals.: :

In compliance with Synod’s resolution of 1950, your Co
on Hymnology and Liturgics has co-operated with the
Parish Education in preparing a children’s hymnal. B
mind that training the youth of the Church and cultivating
for good hymnody is of great importance and affects the <
attitudes of those who will one day be adult worshipers+é
Church, your Committee on Hymnology and Liturgics hi
glad to give the Board for Parish Education the benefit.
of the experience it derived from preparing the Lutheran I
from which the hymnal for children will derive much of its:
and to which it should be related quite intimately. x

The Pastor’s Companion is the only new publication’
available by Concordia Publishing House during the past: trie
which had been prepared by your Committee on Hymnol