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15-414: Prior to the release of The United Methodist Hymnal , The United Methodist Church used the hymnals that were in use by The Methodist Church and The Evangelical United Brethren Church at the time of the merger. The Methodist Church generally used The Methodist Hymnal , also known as The Book of Hymns , or a 1982 supplement, while The Evangelical United Brethren Church had its own hymnal, The Hymnal , which

30-555: A 73-page sampler to several churches. More than three million copies were sold by July 31, 1989, and the total was over four-and-a-half million ten years later. Two supplemental hymnals have been issued, The Faith We Sing in 2000, and Worship & Song in 2011. There are two other equally official hymnals of The United Methodist Church: Mil Voces Para Celebrar: Himnario Metodista (published in 1996) and Come, Let Us Worship: The Korean-English United Methodist Hymnal (published in 2000). The Book of Hymns The Book of Hymns

45-533: A Thousand Tongues to Sing " containing references to blindness, deafness and muteness was marked with an asterisk to indicate that it may be omitted. Several international hymns were also selected, including Spanish, Asian and American Indian hymns, as well as Black spirituals . Duke Ellington 's " Come Sunday " was also included. In compositions by John Wesley , many of the lyrical changes made by his brother Charles were reverted, and most uses of "thee" were replaced with "you". The hymnal also contains four forms of

60-413: A list of all the bishops with the year of their election is at the beginning of the book. That is followed by a brief history of the church, then the church constitution, and a statement concerning the doctrine and theology of the church. The Social Principles of the church follow. Finally the legislative section, by far the largest part of The Discipline , appears. This Methodism -related article

75-668: Is the only place in the book where that title appears. The title page has The Methodist Hymnal: Official Hymnal of the United Methodist Church . The Book of Discipline , as well as other official publications, refer to the hymnal as The Book of Hymns . When it was published it had the title The Methodist Hymnal . Two years after publication the Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church (EUB) merged;

90-590: Is the paragraph, not the page, chapter or section. The paragraphs are numbered consecutively within each chapter or section, but numbers are skipped between chapters or sections. The paragraph is often only a few lines, but many are several pages long and they can be divided into multiple subdivisions. Paragraphs are first divided using Arabic numerals (1, 2, 3,...) which can themselves be divided by italicized lower case letters with parentheses ( a) , b) , c) , d) ...) which may be divided using Arabic numerals within double parentheses ((1), (2), (3),...) Traditionally

105-776: The Holy Communion ritual, known as the Service of Word and Table, and also of the Baptismal Covenant, along with several musical settings for both of those services. It also contains the marriage and funeral rites, forms for morning and evening Praise and Prayer, and a Psalter based on the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible but with a few revisions. Before the hymnal's official release, The United Methodist Publishing House sent

120-482: The Commission on Worship to appoint a hymnal committee to revise the official hymnal. The 29 member committee, chaired by Edwin E. Voigt, had a dozen consultants, with the hymnal edited by Carlton R. Young. The book contains 539 texts with 402 tunes of which 122 texts and 119 tunes which previously had not been included. The hymnal has been described as a prescriptive as opposed to a descriptive hymnal, meaning that

135-558: The EUB was using a hymnal published in 1957. A special session of the General Conference , in 1970, changed the name to The Book of Hymns and assured those who had belonged to the EUB that their hymnal would remain in print. The EUB hymnal was also considered to be an official hymnal of The United Methodist Church. The Book of Hymns was approved unanimously by the 1964 General Conference. The 1960 General Conference authorized

150-571: The hymnal revision was the subject of controversy as the editors had considered eliminating " Onward Christian Soldiers " and some verses of " The Battle Hymn of the Republic ," but retained both hymns after receiving more than 11,000 protest letters. The line "white as snow" was changed to "bright as snow" in "Nothing but the Blood of Jesus", so as to eliminate the imagery of black and white respectively being images of sin and redemption. A line in " O for

165-592: The hymns and liturgy were meant to shape and mold worship and prescribe what is sung and done. It contains most, but not all, of the section in The Book of Worship for Church and Home titled Acts of Praise. Musical settings for parts of the Lord's Supper, the worship service and for the canticles were included. The book was noted for adding the word Amen to the end of most of the hymns. Book of Discipline (United Methodist) The Book of Discipline constitutes

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180-641: The law and doctrine of the United Methodist Church . It follows similar works for its predecessor denominations. It was originally published in 1784, in the Methodist Episcopal Church , and has been published every four years thereafter following the meeting of the General Conference , which passes legislation that is included in the Book of Discipline . The most recent edition is that of 2016. The basic unit of reference

195-634: Was first published in 1957, and other congregations sometimes used special hymnals oriented to different nationalities. The release of United Methodist Hymnal in 1989 followed the updates of several other denominational hymnals in the previous decade, such as Lutheran Book of Worship in 1978 and the Episcopalian The Hymnal 1982 . The United Methodist Hymnal was developed by a revision committee composed of twenty-five members led by editor Carlton R. Young (who also edited The Methodist Hymnal ), and chaired by Bishop Rueben P. Job . It

210-462: Was the first hymnal following The Methodist Church's merger with The Evangelical United Brethren Church. In selecting and arranging hymns, many that contained masculine pronouns were altered so as to include gender-neutral pronouns instead. Male references to God , such as "Master", "Father" and "King", were retained, and a hymn entitled "Strong Mother God" was rejected. The editors had also considered eliminating militaristic references, and in 1986

225-488: Was the official hymnal of The Methodist Church , later the United Methodist Church , in the United States, until it was replaced in 1989 by The United Methodist Hymnal . Published in 1966 by The Methodist Publishing House , it replaced The Methodist Hymnal of 1935 as the official hymnal of the church. There is a dispute as to the proper title of this book. The cover has the title The Book of Hymns but that

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