The word vail is the (now archaic) spelling of veil as found in the original 1830 hymnal.
Some hymnal editors omit the fourth stanza or resequence the stanza so that the fifth stanza as printed here comes last.
His first calling in the church was hymnal coordinator which he filled honorably.
The 1966 bible and 1968 hymnal were highly influential and still used today.
The printed hymnal must have been widely circulated.
In addition to sermons, speeches, hymnals, and liturgies, he published 28 books and over 120 pamphlets during his lifetime.
These became official in 1966, though the hymnal they were to appear in had not yet been produced at that time.
With a membership of several hundred, the organization played a major role in producing the denomination's new hymnals.
