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I'm planning to use several texts by F. E. Belden in our October Hymn-Sing, and when I look for his texts in the Hymnary I find 398 hits, but only the first two look legit. Why are there so many extraneous results in this search?
On a related note... One of the texts I'm planning on using is "Let every lamp be burning bright" (#595 in the 1985 SDA hymnal). When I search for that, I get the Watts text "Let every mortal ear attend".
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the other Belden texts
"We'll build on the Rock", another of the Belden hymns I'm planning to use, results in no meaningful hits, while the third, "I will sing of Jesus' love", leads to an unrelated text and tune by an R. A. Glenn from 1875 (11 years earlier than the Belden one).
Belden searches
It seems like Belden really did write hundreds of hymns. I checked several that are listed under his name and did not find any illegitimate ones. I was not able to duplicate your search results. There are two hymns that start with "I will sing of Jesus' love," one by R. A. Glenn and one by Belden. I usually add an Author column to help me find the one I'm looking for when there is more than one choice.
I don't know about you but I keep forgetting to clear my previous search, which gives me surprising results. This is a new thing with the revamped search engine. The new version keeps your previous search in case you want to refine it. If you don't want to refine the previous search then it is helpful to clear the search before doing a new search.
Thanks, Dianne
Maybe I just have a tendency to search too late into the night or something. I'm aware of the need to clear the previous search, but it's possible I failed to do so anyway. Now I'm getting good looking results, too, the only oddity being that pre-1979 results are being shown even though I didn't check that box (which, since the 1985 SDA hymnal isn't in the Hymnary, I would expect to have to do for Belden; although he was prolific and at least some of his output was really quite good, both as to texts and tunes, but obviously his denominational affiliation got in the way of wider acceptance). The only other explanation I can think of is anti-hymn-glitch-bearing gremlins.
Meaningless search results and overnight processing
During the night, when we aren't working, like after midnight (Eastern time), the system does overnight processing to update the site with changes that have been made the previous day. This can result in meaningless search results until processing is completed. I found this out earlier this week when searching didn't work right because one process didn't complete before another process started. I believe our programmer is going to make sure the first process runs earlier in the night but apply a fix that will hopefully minimize the meaningless results between the hours of 1 am and 5 am Eastern time.