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The second index in the front of the Pilgrim Hymnal, circa 1935, is the Index of Subjects of Hymns.  Though many of their subjects are similar to our more modern terminology, the antiquity of the wording can be seen.

Under the subject Divine Comradeship (I wonder if this subject heading was changed after the Red Scare?), which I thought was a clever one, came the Charles Wesley hymn Christ, Whose Glory Fills the Skies:

"Visit, then, this soul of mine; Pierce the gloom of sin and grief;

Fill me, Radiancy divine, Scatter all my unbelief;

More and more thyself display, Shining to the perfect day." (the 3rd verse) ... more