Two new-type manuals of religious service which will enable soldiers to conduct religious services in the field and in camp in the absence of a chaplain have been developed for army and navy use, the War Department announced today.
Both hymnals contain sections with guides for Jewish, Catholic and Protestant services. A total of 100,000 copies of the “Song and Service Book, Army and Navy, for Field and Ship,” and 50,000 copies of the “Hymnal, Army and Navy” for use in camp chapels have been ordered, at a cost of $46,569.
Designed to meet all sorts of field conditions where services must be improvised, the Jewish section of the field hymnal has a Sabbath eve service with responses, appropriate music and hymns. The new books were developed by two years of work in which service chaplains of all faiths participated.
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