# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S282
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

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Hymnal has become the official hymnal of the synods in the Synod-
ical Conference. ‘The fact that this volume has been distributed
in more than 850,000 copies, at this writing, means that it has been’
almost universally introduced in the churches of. this body.

During the past triennium the few typographical errors that
had crept into the text of The Lutheran Hymnal have been cor-;
rected in the plates, and these corrected plates have been used
in the printing of the hymnal for about a year. We have also pub-
lished a new edition of The Music for the Liturgy, bringing that.
volume into conformity with The Lutheran Hymnal; also a volume,
for choir use, of musical settings for the introits.of the church year;
and we have in process of printing a second volume containing
musical settings for the graduals and seasonal sentences, with which .
are also included the chief sequence hymns, Also in process of .
printing is a so-called Chapel Hymnal (tune edition only), format

’ approximately 634 x 434, containing 103 hymns (90 from The Lu-
theran Hymnal, 8 from the Sunday School Hymnal, and 5 from
other sources), for use in city and institutional mission work, in
Army camps, at home and abroad, in industrial centers, hospitals,
on shipboard, in young people’s summer camps, etc. We believe
that this little Chapel Hymnal in pamphlet form, at an extremely :
low price, will be a welcome help to all those who are engaged
in conducting services and holding religious meetings in places and
under conditions that make the use of the larger official hymnal
impractical, if not impossible. We have had no booklet of this kind
in the past, with the result that many had to use collections from
sectarian sources,

Your committee, as we reported three years ago, is also at
work on a companion volume to the new hymnal, containing suit-.
able hymns and spiritual songs for special occasions, not provided
by The Lutheran Hymnal, and additional hymns for funerals, wed-
dings, church anniversaries, school anniversaries, etc. We are also
preparing a family prayer — or service — book in harmony with
the best liturgical traditions of our Church and taking into full
consideration the calendar of the church year.

Our chief task during the past triennium has been to complete
the revision of the Liturgy and Agenda. We reported three years
ago that this work had been begun with the view to bringing this
volume into harmony with The Lutheran Hymnal and with the.
addition of needed service orders, prayers for special occasions, ete.
In response to our request for suggestions published in the church
Papers, many valuable comments were received from all parts of