YOUTH CHOIR PERIODICALS PUBLISHED BY THE

SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION: 1966-1995

CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION

In the early 1920's, various individuals and agencies began

voicing concern for the overall inadequacy of the music practice in
member churches of the Southern Baptist Convention. Among them
was Isham E. Reynolds, director of the music program at Southwestern
Baptist Theological Seminary, Ft. Worth, Texas. Although his formal
education was interrupted several times with job changes and the early
death of his wife and infant child, Reynolds attended both Mississippi
College and the Moody Bible Institute (Chicago) before becoming a state
music evangelist in Mississippi.* To complete his undergraduate
degree, he took a correspondence course for many years from the Siegel-
Myers University Correspondence School of Music in Chicago. The
school then awarded him a Bachelor of Music degree.

Tommy Ray Spigener, "The Contributions of Isham E.

Reynolds to Church Music in the Southern Baptist Convention
Between 1915-1945." (M.C.M. thesis. Southwestern Baptist
Theological Seminary, Ft. Worth, Texas, 1962).