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Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume XIII, Issue 5, 1 November 1922, Page 415

{ T«f|he". Editor). . Sir,— l have been much interested m the letter from Mr C. Saunders on ' ' Congregational Singing "m the "Gazette'' 1 ' for October, and your notes thereon. I know it is the fashion nowadays to decry Hymns "Ancient and Modern," but most of us were brought up on that Hymnal, and those old enough to remember its predecessors will know what a great improvement Hymns "A. and M." were upon anything that had gone before. It does not seem to be generally

known that the publishers of U H. A. and M." issued a second supplement as long 1 ago as 1916 comprising 141 additional hymns with tunes, besides many fresh tunes to the earlier hymns. Certainly I have never come across it m use anywhere m New Zealand. At the same time the repertory of our choirs as a rule seems a very small one ,at any rate we have the same old hymns and tunes over and over again at frequent intervals, while there are dozens or scores we never sing at all.— Yours faithfully, HENRY J. SAVORY. [Editor's Note.— The Second Supplement, contains some very fine hymns and tujties-, though, as m the main book, many of them are quite unsuitable for Congregational singing. It is a pity it has not been more widely adopted where A. and M. still holds" the field].