Petition Text: 22223-DI-NonDis-O

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Whereas, the United Methodist Publishing House inadvertently omitted from The United Methodist Hymnal that verse from "America the Beautiful" that reads: "O beautiful for pilgrim feet, whose stern impassioned stress/A thoroughfare for freedom beat across the wilderness;/America! America! God mend thy every flaw, Confirm thy soul in self control, Thy liberty in law"; and

Whereas, this verse has been printed in every Methodist hymnal for at least sixty years;

Therefore, be it resolved, that the 1996 General Conference of The United Methodist Church instruct the United Methodist Publishing House to include the second verse of "America the Beautiful" in the next printing of The United Methodist Hymnal

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Petition Text: 22223-DI-NonDis-O
1996 United Methodist General Conference