Church Presidents Correspondence and Other Material [1944-1958]

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Church Presidents Correspondence and Other Material [1944-1958]

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This series mainly comprises correspondence retained by the chairman of the two commissions charged with creating a new service book and hymnal, known as the Joint Commission on a Common Liturgy and the Joint Commission on a Common Hymnal. The chairman, Dr. Luther D. Reed, of what was then known as the Mt. Airy Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, generated and retained these records during the course of administering his duties as chairman of these two commissions. The correspondence is between Dr. Reed and the presidents of the eight cooperating churches of these two commissions. Records in this series date from 1944-1960, but the handwritten and typewritten correspondence date only from 1944-1958. It is bound into one volume with sections devoted to the correspondence between Dr. Reed and each president. Subject matter of this correspondence ranges from issues surrounding the creation of these commissions in 1944 and 1945, those related to the activities of creating the new liturgy and hymnal throughout the remainder of the 1940s and early 1950s, and then the debut of the new hymnal and its promotion among members of cooperating churches in the late 1950s. In addition to the correspondence, there is one folder related to the continuation of the work of these joint commissions under the name Permanent Commission on the Liturgy and Hymnal. There is also one folder with four black and white photographs: two showing the first meeting of the Commission on a Common Hymnal, the predecessor to the joint commissions, one photograph of members of the joint commissions in 1957, and one photograph of commission member Dr. E.E. Ryden and church member Mrs. Fritiof Fryxell working on arrangement of liturgical settings for the new service book.

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Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Library, ELCA Library

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Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Library, ELCA Library

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