# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1938_S255
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Publication Matters 255

These pages can readily be put into a special booklet for the
organists’ use by Concordia Publishing House.

We direct attention to the fact that your Committee has tenta-
tively dropped 74 hymns from the present hymn-book, some of
inferior worth, others seldom used, in order to make room for
other hymns. We have tentatively accepted 166 new hymns, many
of them Lutheran gems not previously used in English in our
circles; others are hymns from other sources, old and new, of
acknowledged merit.

We further propose that a section entitled “Children’s Songs”
be placed at the end of the body of hymns. A perusal of the titles
given hereinafter under that heading will show that this arrange-
ment is suggested in order to make the book more suitable for use
also in our church-schools.

We consider it important to ask Synod to recommend this new
hymn-book to all our congregations for use also in day-schools and
Sunday-schools in order that our coming generations may from
childhood learn to appreciate our treasury of precious hymns.

It will be noted hereinafter that we intend to include also the
Augsburg Confession, Luther’s Small Catechism, the Passion-story,
and, the same as in the present edition, a Short Form for Emergency
Baptism. Besides the indexes we now have we shall add a topical
index and one each of authors, composers, and translations, with
brief biographical notes. Every hymn will be given with its tune,
even if some tunes are printed oftener than once. A large number
of requests have come to us to place the entire text between the
musical staves. In spite of long and careful consideration we have
as yet been unable to reach a decision on this point.

We suggest the following order of material in the new
hymn-book:

1. Table of Contents and Rubrics
’ 2. Prayers: On Entering Church and Leaving Church
Before Communion and After Communion
For Morning and Evening
For the Sick and Dying
. The Liturgy: Collects, etc., Psalms
. The Hymns
. Doxologies
. Chant Settings
. Children’s Songs (Carols and Spiritual Songs)
. Augsburg Confession
Small Catechism
Passion-story
9. Table of Festivals
Table of Lessons
Table for Computation of Easter
Bible-readings for the Year

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