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Watts in America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 August 2011

Robert Stevenson
Robert Stevenson
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Westminster Choir College, Princeton, New Jersey
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Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin in a recent address told of a student at Union Theological Seminary who persistently refused to come to chapel. Queried on his absence by Dr. Coffin, the student replied that he could not approve the hymns which were sung in James Chapel because many of them did not teach sound doctrine. In order to satisfy the student's conscience, Dr. Coffin suggested he come on a day when only the hymns of Watts would be used. The student's devastating remark finished any attempt to bring him to chapel: “I don't consider Watts really ‘safe,’” he blandly asserted.

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Research Article
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Harvard Theological Review , Volume 41 , Issue 3 , July 1948 , pp. 205 - 211
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Copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College 1948

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