The Hymn Question

Mr. Wilfred Rottschafer, whose essay on hymns appeared in the fourteenth number of the eighth vol­ume of this magazine (April 15, 1932) wrote (in this essay): "It is evident in the first place that the differ­ence between a psalm and a hymn is largely one of scope, the psalms being confined to only one book of the Bible, while a hymn may draw its content from the entire Bible including the book of Psalms. A Psalm, therefore, is always a hymn, although a hymn is not always a psalm. It is...