The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Hymns - 1927 Hymnal

1927 Hymnal

For a brief period in the early 1900s, there were four different hymnbooks in use in the LDS Church:

• The Manchester hymnal
• The Latter-day Saints’ Psalmody
• Songs of Zion
• Deseret Sunday School Songs

In 1927 the LDS Church Music Committee decided to combine the best of the first three of these hymnals into one volume. The result was called Latter-day Saint Hymns. It contained 421 hymns, of which 128 still survive in the 1985 LDS hymnal. The Deseret Sunday School Songs continued as a separate hymnal until 1948 because it was used in Sunday School opening exercises.