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title: 'Review of Addison Ballard, From Text to Talk'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Frederick William Loetscher, Sr.'
date: 1912-04-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '20th century'
topics:
- 'Hymnody and Psalmody'
- 'Public Worship'
scriptures:
- 'Psalms 100'
- 'Colossians 3'
- 'Ephesians 5'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/20th-century/loetscher-1912-review-of-addison-ballard-from-text-to-talk
---

# Review of Addison Ballard, From Text to Talk

Survey of the liturgical rise of English hymns from metrical psalms at the Restoration; includes reviews of homiletic guides and a symposium on church alienation.

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