Excerpt from Hymns of the Kingdom: Student Christian Movement Edition; Being the English Section of a Students' Hymnal
For some years the Student Christian Movement has been feeling its way towards a Book of Hymns for Students which would serve as a companion to the Book of Prayers for Students. In 1917 and in the three following years a small collection of Conference Hymns was published annually for use at the Summer Conferences of the Movement. These collections were experimental: hymns which hitherto were little known were introduced, and also tunes. Under the guidance of Drs. Harold Darke and Henry Ley, and Messrs. Martin Shaw and A. C. Dixon a revolution was made in the singing at Conferences.
These successful experiments made a hymn-book an urgent need. The difficulty has always been the cost of a musical edition.
At the beginning of last year we approached Dr. (now Sir) Walford Davies about the musical editorship, and learned that he had already been asked to prepare a School and College Hymn-hook for the National Council of Music, University of Wales. Our arms and tastes were so alike that co-operation has proved possible, and this collection of Hymns of the Kingdom 18 the result. It does not contain all the hymns we would wish for, and it includes some hymns which we should probably not have chosen for a collection made exclusively for the Student Movement. But we put it before the members of our Movement believing that they will find it good and true.
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