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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 24, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 42.

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Silly and Meaningless Songs

By Editor

We wish to say Amen to Governor Woodrow Wilson's criticism at a New Jersey Sunday-school convention regarding the song "The Beautiful Isle of Somewhere." He called it silly and meaningless, and asked: "Why can't we sing the old psalms? Why do we have to concoct silly rimes of our own?" There are many good modern songs and hymns, but there are some which are inexpressibly weak and shallow.