Some churches run hymn marathons, where all the hymns in a new book, or the top 100 after congregational voting, are sung through non-stop, often with teams of organists and choirs. Usually there is money involved, and through sponsorship the singers convince themselves they have somehow created cash out of nothing. All this has educational value of a sort, but whether it is worth the price of trivialising the hymns must be open to doubt. It does not seem quite what Monsell or Montgomery had in mind.