The ''Common Service Book'' (''CSB'') is a

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book and

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al originally issued jointly by the Evangelical Lutheran General Synod of the United States of America, the

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, and the

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in 1917, and, after the merger of those bodies into the

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(ULCA) in 1918, by that body. The hymnal employed the Common Service of 1887, the first common liturgy for the Divine Service among

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-speaking Lutherans in the

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and

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. The work of the inter-Lutheran committee that produced the Common Service and the hymnal itself was instrumental in bringing about the formation the ULCA. The text only edition, first published in 1917, did not contain the music for the hymns; the hymnal edition, first published in 1918, included the music. The Occasional Services section was also published separately.

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