{"id":2197,"date":"2021-10-18T11:46:37","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T16:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/?p=2197"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:46:37","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T16:46:37","slug":"a-century-of-great-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/2021\/10\/18\/a-century-of-great-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"A century of great songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2198 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2021\/10\/songs-of-the-church-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Advertised as the \u2018Golden Book of Sacred Song,\u2019 and affectionately known as \u2018Old Blue,\u2019 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Great Songs of the Church<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was used by congregations, schools, colleges and universities, and singing assemblies around the world. Visit the library blog to learn about the compilation of this hymnal and how to access the online exhibit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The story begins in rural Nebraska, hardly a stronghold of the Restoration Movement, with Danish immigrants Christopher and Lena Jorgenson.\u00a0 Despite their limited capacity with the English language they enthusiastically embraced the reform plea of the Churches of Christ.\u00a0 Their son Elmer Leon Jorgenson (1886-1968) employed his great musical ability and Christian devotion to compile the most enduring hymnal used among Churches of Christ and Christian Churches. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Great Songs of the Church,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> ten years in the making, debuted in May 1921.\u00a0 Seventy years and millions of copies later it was still in print\u2013surpassing the astonishing sixty-year print run of Alexander Campbell\u2019s hymnal.\u00a0 Advertised as the \u2018Golden Book of Sacred Song,\u2019 and affectionately known as \u2018Old Blue,\u2019 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Great Songs of the Church<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was used by congregations, schools, colleges and universities, and singing assemblies around the world. See more in this online exhibit: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/exhibits\/a-century-of-great-songs-e-l-jorgensons-remarkable-hymnal\/#.YVi4tBDMLBI\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/exhibits\/a-century-of-great-songs-e-l-jorgensons-remarkable-hymnal\/#.YVi4tBDMLBI<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advertised as the \u2018Golden Book of Sacred Song,\u2019 and affectionately known as \u2018Old Blue,\u2019 Great Songs of the Church was used by congregations, schools, colleges and universities, and singing assemblies around the world. Visit the library blog to learn about the compilation of this hymnal and how to access the online exhibit. The story begins [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15468,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2199,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197\/revisions\/2199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}