CHAPTER V THE CONTENT OF THE HYMN 76 I ITS RELATION TO GOD. Thanksgiving. Prayer for Future Blessing. Adoration. The Hymn of Communion. II RELATION TO THE SINGER. The Hymn of Emotion. The Hymn of Inspiration. The Hymn of Personal Experience. The Hymn of Meditation. The Hymn of Exhortation. The Didactic Hymn. The Doctrinal Hymn. The Homiletical Hymn. The Hymn of Propaganda. Hymns of the Social Gospel. Special Hymns. The Great Hymnic Themes. CHAPTER VI THE GOSPEL HYMN 89 Lack of Discrimination. Wrong Assumptions of the Opposition. Unfairness in Comparisons Made. Criteria for Evaluation. Gospel Hymns and the Unsaved. Gospel Hymns and the Demands of Worship. Gospel Hymns in the Preparatory Service. Gospel Hymns in the Laboratory. The Advantages of Gospel Hymns. Discrimination in the Use of Gospel Songs Needed. PART II HISTORY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN HYMN CHAPTER VII APOSTOLIC ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT 103 SACRED SONG IN THE NEW CHRISTIAN CHURCH. The Rise of Sacred Song in Apostolic Times. Apostolic Emphasis of Sacred Song. Traces of Hymns in the Epistles. The Hymns of the Apocalypse. “The Odes of Solomon.” The Failure of Apostolic Spiritual Songs to Survive. CHAPTER VIII THE POST-APOSTOLIC HYMN 109 The Post-Apostolic Church a Singing Church. The Earliest Surviving Hymns. The Relation of Hymns to Psalms and Canticles. The Hymn as Propaganda. CHAPTER IX THE GREEK HYMNODY 114 Introduction. THE SYRIAC HYMN-WRITERS. I EARLY GREEK HYMNS. II THE LATER GREEK HYMNS. CHAPTER X THE LATIN HYMNODY 119 I THE BEGINNING OF LATIN HYMNODY. II EARLY LATIN HYMN-WRITERS. III GREAT LATIN HYMNS. IV MEDIEVAL DEVOTIONAL POEMS. V MEDIEVAL POPULAR HYMNODY. CHAPTER XI LUTHER AND THE GERMAN HYMN 130 I PRE-REFORMATION VERNACULAR HYMNS. II LUTHER’S RELATION TO GERMAN HYMNODY.