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CDusic Indispensable to IDorship c By Dr. W. B, Riley USIC is universally appreciated and practiced. The English ploughboy sings as he drives his team; the Scotch Highlander makes the gle ns and gray moors resound with his beautiful song; the Swiss, Tyrolese, and Carpathians lighten their labor by music; the muleteer of Spain cares little who is on the throne or behind it, if he can only have his early carol; the vintager of Sicily has his evening hymn, even beside the fire of the burning mount; the fisherman of Naples has his boat-song, to which his rocking boat beats time on that beau¬ tiful sea; and the gondolier of Venice still keeps up his midnight serenade.” Music is indispensable. To conduct a church without music would be to accomplish what no one has yet had the hardihood even to attempt. Music is the one art that appeals to all classes; that reaches and strangely moves the ignorant and the educated, the poor and the rich, the denizen of the home, the attendants at church, and even the gay and godless that gather for social converse. Someone has said, It is the gift of tongues, and is able, therefore, to speak to each in the vernacular to which he was bom.” Among the arts it can come nearest to the claim of Divine origin since at the finished creation, morning start sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy” (job. 38:7). The art that has such approval cannot he despised by the church of God. The Importance of Music can scarcely be over-stressed. In worship it has a Scriptural warrant. David of the Old Testa¬ ment is called the sweet singer of Israel. Neither the Scriptures nor tradition tell us anything of Ids voice. We do not surely know that he sang at all; but, with the pen of inspiration, be so wrote as to inspire anthems and oratorios in almost endless numbers, and his appeals were such as to stir the most sluggish souls to song. ' 7 wilt praise thee with my whole heart” is a phrase that rings through the one hundred and fifty Psalms or Songs written by this inspired man with such constant repetition as to remind one of the call of morning bells. He is not content with solo work. He would have the forces of nature peal forth the praises of God like an infinite organ; “fire and hail” and “snow” and “vapors” and “stormy wind” and “all deeps.” Pie w f ould have the earth itself become vocal and “mountains and all hills join in the praise of GW,” He would have “the beasts and all cattle “creeping things and flying fowl” to utter forth their praise. He would have “the sun and the moon and all the stars of light” to join. He would have “all young men and maidens” “all people,” including “princes and judges and hugs of the earth” praise the Name of the Lord. Yea, he would have “the heaven of the heavens” and “the waters beneath the earth” unite their voices in the glad refrain. Finally, he would have “all angels and all the hosts of heaven” tunc their tongues to the paeon of God s praise. The New Testament apostles are no whit at variance with this Old Testament prophet in this matter. On that night before Jesus was betrayed, when He had administered the Supper that should forever remain a type of His sacrifice, we read that “When they had jtmg an hymn , they went out into the Mount of Olives” (Matt. 26:30). Paul and Silas were m prison. They had been mercilessly beaten; their feet were fast in the stocks, and their hands were manacled; but “at midnight Paul and Silas prayed } and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them” (Acts 16:25). James, in his epistle (5:13), writes, “Is any merry? Let him sing psalms.” Singing, then, is not one of those non-essential accretions fastened on the blood-bought Body; it is the very expression of its new, glad life; and Christianity without song is well-nigh inconceivable. Little wonder that Donald Fraser said, ' ‘Sing, oh, Christian, on your heavenly way; let Page Eighteen
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