<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><h2 style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(5, 83, 138); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 26px; line-height: 42px; text-align: center;" class=""><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px;" class="">Singing</strong></h2><h2 style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(5, 83, 138); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 42px; text-align: center;" class=""><font face="Helvetica" size="5" class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: start; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px;" class="">The links below can be found in the Inner Life Collection: Rituals of the Global Archives website: </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: start; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px;" class=""> </span><span style="text-align: start;" class=""> <a href="https://icaglobalarchives.org/collections/" class="">https://icaglobalarchives.org/collections/</a></span></span></font></h2><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><strong style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: start; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></strong></div><h4 style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; line-height: 29px;" class=""><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="">Contextual talks have been given and papers written reflecting on the purpose of songs and singing. In January 1967 <i class="">The Image</i> periodical published <a href="https://wedgeblade.net/files/archives_assets/4638.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; color: rgb(101, 123, 186); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; line-height: 29px;" class="">Volume I</a> and <a href="https://wedgeblade.net/files/archives_assets/4906.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; color: rgb(101, 123, 186); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; line-height: 29px;" class="">Volume II</a> <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px;" class="">Songs of the Spirit Movement</em> with a context in Volume I. Joseph Mathews gave two talks in June 1973 on the purpose of songs: <a href="https://wedgeblade.net/files/archives_assets/4905.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; color: rgb(101, 123, 186); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; line-height: 29px;" class="">June 10th</a> and <span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px;" class=""><a href="https://wedgeblade.net/files/archives_assets/5431.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; color: rgb(101, 123, 186); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; line-height: 29px;" class="">June 19th</a></span>.</span></h4><p style="caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: rgb(119, 119, 119); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; font-size: 17px; line-height: 28px; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" class=""> </p><h4 style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; line-height: 29px;" class=""></h4><h4 style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; line-height: 29px;" class=""></h4><h4 style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; line-height: 29px;" class=""><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="">For many years each Summer Research Assembly compiled a songbook; and various other songbooks were created over the years. Here is a sampling:</span></h4><ul style="caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: rgb(119, 119, 119); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; list-style-position: inside; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;" class=""><li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px;" class=""><h4 style="overflow-wrap: break-word; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; line-height: 29px;" class=""><span style="font-weight: normal;" class=""><a href="https://wedgeblade.net/files/archives_assets/20824.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; color: rgb(101, 123, 186); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; line-height: 29px;" class="">Archives Sojourn Songbook 2017</a>, compiled by Jean Long for the Human Development Celebration</span></h4></li><li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px;" class=""><h4 style="overflow-wrap: break-word; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; line-height: 29px;" class=""><a href="https://wedgeblade.net/files/archives_assets/21538.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; color: rgb(101, 123, 186); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; line-height: 29px; font-weight: normal;" class="">ICA Related Songs</a></h4></li><li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px;" class=""><h4 style="overflow-wrap: break-word; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; line-height: 29px;" class=""><a href="https://wedgeblade.net/files/archives_assets/21537.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; color: rgb(101, 123, 186); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; line-height: 29px; font-weight: normal;" class="">Local Church Experiment Songs</a></h4></li><li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px;" class=""><h4 style="overflow-wrap: break-word; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; line-height: 29px;" class=""><span style="font-weight: normal;" class=""><a href="https://wedgeblade.net/files/archives_assets/20601.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; color: rgb(101, 123, 186); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; line-height: 29px;" class="">Spirit Journey Retreat 2007</a>, songs and rituals compiled by John and Lynda Cock</span></h4></li><li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px;" class=""><h4 style="overflow-wrap: break-word; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; line-height: 29px;" class=""><a href="https://wedgeblade.net/files/archives_assets/21981.pdf" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; color: rgb(101, 123, 186); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; line-height: 29px; font-weight: normal;" class="">The Global Songbook 1983-1984</a></h4></li></ul><h4 style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; line-height: 29px;" class=""></h4><h4 style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; line-height: 29px;" class=""></h4><p style="caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); color: rgb(119, 119, 119); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; font-size: 17px; line-height: 28px; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;" class=""> </p><h4 style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; line-height: 29px;" class=""><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="">Two major collections of songs compiled from various sources are now available: <span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px;" class=""> <a href="https://wedgeblade.net/files/archives_assets/20118.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; color: rgb(101, 123, 186); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; line-height: 29px;" class="">485</a> </span>songs and <a href="https://wedgeblade.net/files/archives_assets/20119.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; 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