The Hymn Matter (5)

We must return once more to the report of the Synodical Study Committee and its report to the Synod of 1960 on the hymn matter. In addition to the committee's historical and exegetical survey of the hymn question, it includes in its report a section entitled "Conclusions Of Your Committee." To this section we will direct the attention of our readers in the present article. Although the committee readily grants "that the singing of the hymn in public worship is nowhere expressly forbidden in...