Frankfort Pilgrim College - Pilgrim Yearbook (Frankfort, IN)

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The Importance of Music in Divine Worship Refresh Thy people on their toilsome way, Lead us from night to never-ending dayg 'Til all our lives with love and grace Divine, And glory, land, and praise be ever Thine. A lovely painting without a frame shows something lacking in its setting, so a ehureh without music seems to us as coming short OI well-rounded spiritual worship. It is safe to say that much of the p1'aise to 'God in divine worship is due to the sincere singing of good, substantial, old-fashioned, soulful, time- tried hymns. Can you imagine a church, that does not have the singing of hymns in any of its services. Would they appeal to the human soul? Some of the ehurehes today are in a worse condition, since they have taken the blood out of all their hymns, in spite of the fact that without the shedding of Christ 's blood there can be no remission of sins. Hymns are the harmonious expressions of hallelujahs to the King of kings, of glory to the Almighty God, of praise to the blessed Lord of all, of hosamias to God in the Highest, of joyful shouts of the human soul to the Creator of Eternity. For that reason, hymns should be the spontaneous out- burst of the human heart reaching out i11 all sincerity of adoration to his Maker. What person has not at some time in his life been touched and melted by such soul-stirring hymns, that never die, as Just As I Am , Abide Vilith Men, Rock of Oges , or Jesus, Lover of My Soulm? Ur who has not experienced the reverent hush and sensed the very atmos- phere of heaven through the sincere rendition of such sacred hymns as Holy, Holy, Holy , Hark, Hark My Soul , O Paradise , or God of Our Fath- ers' I? And who has never been impressed with the religious dignity of that old missionary hymn, t'From Greenland's ley Mountains , with that universal favorite, Stand Up For Jesus , with the military stateliness of Onward Christian Soldiers , with the spiritual uplift of the Battle Hymn of the Re- pnbiie ? How striking in contrast, are these old classics that will live for- ever, eonpared with some of the modern verses of today. New let us look at the instrumental side of the subject. A simple hymn, sweetly and eifectively played with feeling on any instrument, especially the organ, always creates an atmosphere of reverence and quietness that can Ire accomplished in no other Way. Have we not often wondered what the music of heaven must be like, especially after listening to some remarkable grand organ selection that has thrilled us to the very soul. We have sat spellbound through the thundering and roaring of diapasons, fading away into echoes like the calmness that fol- lows the storm, refreshing as a sp-ring shower, and carrying with it a heaven- ly breeze which wafts the magnificent singing of the Celestial Choir, echoing and revel-bei-ating from the pearly gates of the New Jerusalem, until the heavenly harmonies finally die away into a single note. t'Jerusalem the golden, I know not, O I know not, With milk and honey blest! What joys await us there, Beneath thy contemplation What radiancy of glory, Sink heart and voice opprest. What bliss beyond compare. --De Rizdon Stambaugh.

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2641-wif COMMERCIAL GROUPS f'It is never the machines ihat are dead. It is only the mechallically minded men that are dead QE?