Make Christ King

Make Christ King Cause Button Museum
Category
Cause
Additional Images
Make Christ King button back Cause Button Museum
Sub Categories
Litho
Illustrations
Religion
Text on Button MAKE CHRIST KING
Image Description

White text over an illustration of a crown with rays coming out of the top on a blue background
Curl Text COOK ELGIN
Back Style
Unlocking pin
The Shape
Circle
The Size
1/2 inch
Year / Decade Made
1910s
Additional Information

The crown has long been used in Christian symbolism to show the reward of Heaven. The phrase, “Make Christ King,” was used for a Gospel hymn book in 1912, published by Glad Tidings Publishing of Chicago. One its editors was Dr. H. W. Stough, minister to Ernest Hemingway’s parents. Make Christ King seems to have been very popular around 1915 for Protestent revival services. The prolific use of it led to the “New Make Christ King” and “Make Christ King Combined” hymnals, or songbooks. The phrase is still used in religious services and marketing today.
Sources

Cross and Crown. En.wikipedia.org. (2020). Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_and_Crown.

Fillmore Music House (1916, March). Make Christ King Combined [Advertisement]. The Choir, 17(3), 73. Retrieved from Google Books.

Nagel, J. (Ed.). (1996). Ernest Hemingway: The Oak Park legacy. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press
Catalog ID CA0302