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The United Methodist Hymnal is the hymnal used by The United Methodist Church. It was first published in 1989 as the first hymnal for The United Methodist Church after the 1968 merger of The Methodist Church with The Evangelical United Brethren Church. The 960-page hymnal is noted for many changes that were made in the lyrics of certain hymns ...
The cover has the title The Book of Hymns but that 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.
The hymnbook was first published by the Methodist Publishing House in 1983, to replace the Methodist Hymn-Book, which was published soon after the unification of the Methodist Church in 1933. [1] The book's full title is Hymns and Psalms: A Methodist and Ecumenical Hymn Book, reflecting a degree of participation by many Christian denominations ...
Singing the Faith is the latest in a line of hymnbooks going back to A Collection of Hymns for the Use of The People Called Methodists [2] (1779) by John Wesley and Charles Wesley. [3] The decision to produce a 21st-century hymnbook was taken at the Methodist Conference of 2009.
The Book of Worship for Church and Home (1965) was the second liturgical book of The Methodist Church, replacing the 1945 book of the same name. This book was replaced in 1992 with The United Methodist Book of Worship. The 1945 book, whose use was considered optional and completely voluntary, was ordered revised by the 1956 General Conference ...
Hymns Ancient and Modern (1904) has 5 stanzas, The English Hymnal (1906) has 4, and The United Methodist Hymnal (1989), includes a 4-stanza version alongside the 12-stanza text. [1] In light of its length, some have argued that the text should be treated as a poem rather than a congregational hymn.
The hymn remains popular, [1] and is included in several hymnals across different denominations, including The Song Book of the Salvation Army (1986), The United Methodist Hymnal (1989), The Baptist Hymnal (1991) and Singing the Faith (2011). [6] It has often been used at the end of conferences, to inspire attendees for service. [3]
In the United Methodist Church hymnal, "Soldiers of Christ, Arise" is the only hymn included that was originally in John Wesley's A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People Called Methodists. [5] It is one of only a few Methodist hymns that overtly referred to battles or the notion of Christians as soldiers. [5]