The acceptance of Anglo-Saxon hymns into the Hungarian Protestant hymn-books came about strictly speaking after the second World War. Although we find some already in hymnals immediately after 1900 yet they are always separated under sub-titles like Hosanna Hymns,' Supplement,2 Appendix.3 As late as 1950 K. Csomasz T6th writes: "a detailed treatment of these hymn-books [i. e. Hozsdnna 1901 and later Hallelujah 1914-1922] and their placing within the history of our hymnody exceeds the limits of our present assignment".4 When questioned as to the origins of these hymns, the pastors and choir leaders of the various Protestant denominations would answer that they are "our own" although several churches use the same translations. Different renderings we find most of all in the latest editions. It was precisely these obscure answers according to which every church considers these hymns her own, yet cannot say hardly a thing as to their origin urged me to take up research work on this field, in order to clear up at last when, under what circumstances and by whom these Anglo-Saxon Gospel Hymns came to Hungary. In his book just quoted,5 K. Csomasz T6th points out very convincingly how great was the decline of the hymnody in the Reformed Church during the 18. and 19. century. Dr. A. N. Somerville, the Scotch missionary who held evangelistic meetings in 37 towns of Hungary during a very short period in 1887 made the same statement when he recorded concerning the singing of hymns in Hungary that it was "in a drawling, mumbling, doleful minor key".6 Yet Imre Rdvisz's treatise dealing with Somer-