# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S156
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156 Proceedings of the 28th General or

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"We favor carrying out this proposal, provided it does not require raising the book's price; otherwise we recommend issuing a small separate book about the authors with a somewhat fuller description of their lives.

"3. Concerning the indications of tunes.

"The present indications should, for some hymns, be replaced with more suitable ones. We recommend that the commission's detailed proposals, made on the basis of thorough study, be examined and put to use. We further recommend that the tune index be kept, but also revised (so that, for example, all tunes for a given meter are grouped under one number). A note to the tune index should advise congregations to sing each hymn, where possible, to the tune given in its heading, and to use a less suitable but familiar tune found by means of the index only until the tune printed over the hymn has been learned.

"4. Concerning the enlargement of the stock of hymns.

"An enlargement of our hymnal's stock of hymns by a number of hymns, especially for use at particular festivals and celebrations, has become a need. We recommend that suitable hymns, kept to as limited a number as possible, be added to the appendix. In doing so, the hymns proposed by the commission, as well as those proposed by others, should be taken into account. We further recommend that, in any case, the 'dead number' [*die taube Nummer* — a hymnal number left blank, with no hymn assigned] 406 be eliminated, and that under this number either the hymn proposed by the commission, "Herzlich tut mich verlangen" [My heart is filled with longing], or some other suitable hymn be inserted. — We further recommend that, together with the revised hymnal, a pamphlet in a suitable format be printed containing all the new hymns, to be distributed free of charge to owners of old editions of the hymnal.

"5. Concerning the revision of the hymn texts.

"We recommend that this part of the work in particular be carried out with due regard for the commission's detailed proposal and all submitted opinions, with special care and caution, following the rules set out above.

"In response to repeated requests, we recommend that the appendices of the hymnal also be revised.

"We recommend that, in the hymn section of the book, page numbering be dropped, and that the hymns be listed in the index by number.

"That the hymnal be printed according to the new orthography has already been resolved by the Synod. Naturally the book's punctuation should likewise be brought up to date according to the rules now in force.

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