Too Much Ragtime In Church

1917

Sing Good Gospel Songs, Bishop Tells M. E. Preachers.

LIMA, Ohio — At the opening of the second day's session of the West Ohio Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church Bishop Thirkield spoke on "Hymnology" to 500 preachers, urging them to use the Methodist Hymnal more, with its splendid gospel songs. He said too many flippant, ragtime tunes, with frivolous wording, have crept into the church today.

—The Saturday Blade, Chicago, Sept. 16, 1916, p. 4.