# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1935_S254
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242 Proceedings of Thirty-Sixth Regular Convention,

feasible, provided, however, that, if the plan of having a catechism
acceptable to all bodies of the Synodical Conference gives promise of
materializing, the Committee adjust its work to this situation.

Action of Synod.
This recommendation was adopted.

Report of the Committee on Hymnology

and Liturgics,
(Memorial 505.)
At the Delegate Synod of 1929, in River Forest, it was Proposed
by a committee to recommend the revision of our English hymn-book,
for the following reasons: —

1. Many of the translations from the German are of uncertain
merit, not paying sufficient attention to the idiom of the English lan-
guage; often there are mistakes also in rime and thythm. Such im-

man chorals is also subject to criticism, since in many instances we
have better hymns from specific sources, upon which we may well
draw, than from extra-Lutheran sources, and we believe that
other hymns from German sources, not now included, could be
added or substituted. This is one of the reasons why we suggest ten
to fifteen years as the period probably required for hymns to be com-
pared in order that the best may be included,

found in the hymnals of the Scandinavian countries, also in those of
Bohemia, France, and other lands; and yet some excellent material is
contained in the Lutheran hymn-books of these countries, also some
excellent tunes. Much material found in the Lutheran Church of
America may also be used to good advantage. In short, every point
of progress in Lutheran hymnody should be recognized,

genius of the English language.
This report wag adopted, and a Committee on Hymnology and
Liturgies was appointed, with instructions to approach the sister
ds in the Synodical Conference and to solicit their cooperation
for the ultimate publication of a hymn-book for the entire Synodical
Conference. The result was the establishment of an Intersynodical