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Originally Posted by ToGodAlone
I've only seen the hymnal once and everything that was sung out of it was to my knowledge and WL written/modified hymn. I have seen that I Am Not Skilled to Understand by Dorothy Greenwell is in there and that there was a modified version of All in All, so I know that not EVERYTHING in there is written by WL.
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It is a real shame, the old hymnal had the names of the writers, the music, the composer, etc. It was a wonderful collection. The newer hymnal is, in my opinion, a joke. It is just a bunch of words. How would you figure out the tune if you come across a new hymn? How would you learn the names of some marvelous hymn writers? How would you see who the composers were of some of these great hymns? I still have my old hymnal, but only for reference, it is far too delicate to carry to a meeting in anything other than a box.
Perhaps they had to ditch the old hymnal if they wanted to erase JI name from the history, I don't know.