*Bold text pertains to The Hymn Society*
1921
- Gospel Pearls
- Ninde, The Story of the American Hymn
- Pratt, The Music of the Pilgrims
1922
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The Hymn Society founded; first meeting January 19
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First search, for a tune to set Farrington, “I know not how that Bethlehem’s Babe”
1923
- Chisholm, “Great is thy faithfulness”; Runyan, FAITHFULNESS
1924
- Baptist Standard Hymnal
- Reeves, The Hymn as Literature
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First public meeting, March 31, Chantry of Grace Episcopal Church; 75 present
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Louis F. Benson, Henry Burton, and Frank Mason North named first Honorary Members
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THS begins distribution of a Bulletin prepared by Perkins
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Founder Augustus S. Newman donates his library
1925
- Johnson, Johnson, and Brown, The Book of American Negro Spirituals
1926
- New Baptist Hymnal
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Katharine Lee Bates and John Finley Williamson named Honorary Members
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THS petitions Congress to make “O beautiful for spacious skies” the national hymn
1928
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Henry van Dyke named Honorary Member
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THS searches for “a hymn expressing the missionary enterprise of today”; the winning hymn is Tweedy, “Eternal God, whose power upholds”