An attempt was made in the 1980s to strip "Onward, Christian Soldiers" from the "United Methodist Hymnal" and the Episcopal "Hymnal 1982" due to perceived militarism. Outrage among church-goers caused both committees to back down. However, the hymn was omitted from both the 1990 and 2013 hymnals of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the "Australian Hymn Book", published in 1977, its successor, "Together in Song", (1999) and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's 2006 hymnal. The Spiritualists' National Union hymnbook has a variation on the hymn, entitled "Onward, Comrades, Onward". In some modern Anglican hymn books, it is replaced with "Onward, Christian Pilgrims" set to the same tune.