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Methodist song of praise, ... a thousand-year-old Catholic chant, ... stately Hebrew phrases of an innocent Jewish hymn", or a Confucian hymn that was included in "a beautiful silk-covered volume with Chinese characters inside". Content of some episodes was tailored to fit specific events, such the September 17, 1936, broadcast, which (in observance of the
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