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Hymn Programme

T -has been said that the hymns a congregation sings have a greater influence over what they believe than the doctrines preached to them. The Wesleyans, and other evangelist and revivalist movements working among the poor and uneducated, found the hymn the ideal medium not only for building up a feeling of fellowship within their congregations, but also for teaching their doctrines in an easily understood and remembered form. This was particularly the aim of Dr. Philip Doddridge, a Nonconformist minister and hymn-writer of the early 18th Century. Some of his hymns have, in the words of Dr. Percy Scholes, "woven themselves intg the very mental texture of English-speaking Protestantism." Last year was the bicentenary of Dr. Doddridge’s death. To commemorate it a programme of his hymns has been recorded by the Durham Street Methodist Choir of Christchurch, and is being heard from all National stations.

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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 654, 18 January 1952, Page 11

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Hymn Programme New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 654, 18 January 1952, Page 11

Hymn Programme New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 654, 18 January 1952, Page 11

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