As late as the eighteen-eighties there was an organized anti-hymn party in the Presbyterian Church in the United States and elsewhere. It issued a monthly journal with eleven editions (!), these representing pure psalm-singing churches in the United States, the British Isles, and Holland, and also the Waldensian Church.

Perry A. Scholes, The Puritans and Music in England and New England: A contribution to the Cultural History of Two Nations, 253.