Especially book lists:
Time’s Top 10 Literary Hoaxes. This list is interesting, but it’s really the Top Ten Mostly Recent Literary Hoaxes. I’ve written about a couple of others that were perpetrated in the past:
Leonainie: The Poet Poe in Kokomo
Chatterton, the Wonderful Whelp.
C. Michael Patton’s Top Fifteen Must Have Books on Apologetics.
In light of today’s hymn (tba), Randy Alcorn’s bibliography of books about suffering and the Christian.
Also related to hymns, here’s a list of some of the hymnbooks that I have in my collection:
The Cokesbury Hymnal, For General Use in Religious Meetings, Printed in Round and Shaped Notes With Orchestration. Music Editor: Harold Hart Todd. Nashville, Tennessee: Cokesbury Press, 1923.
The Cokesbury Worship Hymnal. General Editor: C.A. Bowen. New York/Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1938.
All-American Church Hymnal. An inspiring Book of Hymns and contemporary Songs, practical and resourceful for use in all phases of religious services for Churches, Tabernacles, Sunday Schools, and Homes. Compiled by Earl Smith and John T. Benson. Nashville, Tennessee: John T. Benson Publishing, n.d.
Triumphant Service Songs. No publisher, no date. This one seems to have been published by the Homer Rodeheaver Company.
The Broadman Hymnal, Great Standard Hymns and Choice Gospel Songs New and Old, for Use in all Religious Services, such as the Worship Hour, Sunday School, Young People’s Meetings, Assemblies, and Evangelistic Services. Music Editor: B.B. McKinney. Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman Press, 1940. These were the “old hymnals” that we used at our church when I was growing up, banished to the Sunday School rooms upstairs, but not good (new) enough for the main worship auditorium.
Voices of Praise, A Collection of Standard Hymns and Gospel Songs Published for Use in the Worship Hour, Sunday Schools, Young People’s Meetings, Evangelistic Services, and all Christian Work and Worship. Editor and Compiler: BB. McKinney. Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman Press, 1947.
Worldwide Church Songs. Compiled by The Stamps Quartets. Dallas, Texas: Stamps Quartet Music Company, Inc., 1947.
Church Service Hymns, a superior collection of Hymns and Gospel Songs for every department of church work. Compiled by Homer Rodeheaver and George W. Sanville. Music Editor: B.D. Ackley. Winona Lake, Indiana: The Rodeheaver Hall-Mack Co., 1948.
Baptist Hymnal. Edited by Walter Hines Sims. Nashville, Tennessee: Convention Press, 1956. I was born in 1957 and grew up singing from this particular edition of the Baptist Hymnal.
Worship and Service Hymnal, For Church, School, and Home. Chicago: Hope Publishing Company, 1957.
Baptist Hymnal. Nashville, Tennessee: Convention Press, 1975. I remember when this Baptist Hymnal replaced the old 1956 edition. We thought we were really up to date, contemporary.
The Hymnal 1982, according to the use of the Episcopal Church. New York: Church Hymnal Corporation, 1982.
The Hymnal for Worship and Celebration. Senior Editor: Tom Fettke. Waco, Texas: Word Music, 1986.
The Baptist Hymnal. Nashville, Tennessee: Convention Press, 1991. I wonder if my old home church in West Texas uses this hymnal now or if they simply project the lyrics on a screen as we do in my current (not Baptist) church?
I really like hymnbooks.
I grew up on “the old red-backed hymnal,” merely stamped with “Church Hymnal” on the front. (A funny aside: one of the dear elderly ladies at my parents’ church, the church of my youth, calls it “the church hymnlet.”)
I like hymnbooks, too.
Our church has the Hymnal for Worship and Celebration. In our Evergreen Association’s 30-some churches there are at least ten different English-language hymnals currently in the pews (our denomination hasn’t had an official hymnal for decades). I have well over a hundred hymnals in my collection, and I’m always looking for more. Some of my favorites include the Quaker Worship in Song: A Friends Hymnal (1996, with everything from shapenotes to the Beatles), the 2006 Christian Life Hymnal, and (one I haven’t got yet, but long for) Eric Routley’s Rejoice in the Lord.
Leland aka Haruo