# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S445
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PUBLICATION MATTERS 445

However, a new edition of the Lutheran Hymnal has
in which various errors made in previous editions have
sxected by members of the Committee. A new edition of
ic for the Liturgy is needed, since the supply of the first
has been exhausted. The new edition will include cor-
and other necessary and desirable changes. It is yet the
e Committee on Hymnology and Liturgics to prepare
tion a collection of canticles and also a collection of
, both of which are to include musical settings suitable for
rices of worship.

iI]. be necessary to make other liturgical and hymnological
4 available as time goes on, since the demand for these
g within our own ranks as well as among those who
embers of the Synodical Conference, but who depend
upon us to supply their need. Liturgical literature which
th the problems of corporate and private worship should
available through your Committee on Hymnology and
‘the same applies to books and pamphlets on church
d hymnology. Such materials and literature should be
by men who have had advanced training in liturgics,
ogy, and church music, who are acquainted with present-
ices and the modern approach, and who are thoroughly
in these fields, since great advances have been made in
ss also in America and since a sound, scholarly back-
and understanding is today taken for granted.

as yet too early and likewise unwise and unnecessary to
agitate for a new hymnal. However, your Committee on
ogy and Liturgics hereby calls attention to the fact that
heran Hymnal is already twelve years old and that the
American hymnal is in use for only about one generation,
twenty-five or thirty years. At present, the problems
onfront a committee like ours are vexing indeed. We are
at we are not required to publish a new hymnal in
lie present; as is being experienced today by others,
tension and turmoil are not ideal for publishing new
especially if the committee desires to maintain healthy
ome standards and avoid unfortunate extremes.

ing, permit us to call attention to the fact that many
2 Hions and many individuals of Synod contact your Com-
ymnology and Liturgics for the purpose of obtaining
d: advice. This not only acquaints us with the needs
of our parishes, but it likewise stimulates us to keep
lasted on the past practices of the Church as well as
and most wholesome developments and practices of

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