In reply to Vickie D Mistarka.

I was told by Rev. Dr Paul Foelber, professor of Music, Concordia, AnnArbor, a member of the Commission on Worship, who contributed to Luthern Worship Hymnal, that "Amens" were simply added to every hymn in the pew edition of the 1941 Lutheran Hymnal for no particularly good reason...even when the hymn writers did not include them; and so the Commission on Worship for both the green LBW and the blue LW removed them to return to an older practice. It seems that the editors of LSB agreed.