Excerpt from Worship and Music: Suggestions for Clergy and Choirmaster
The author of this little book describes himself as "one whose somewhat nomad occupation takes him to a great variety of services, both in town and country." Certainly, so far I am like him. But he is a real musician, and I am not. At the same time, music holds so great a place in corporate religion, both as a help and as a hindrance, and the criticisms and suggestions about church music which this book contains so largely commend themselves to my judgment, that I hope I may, without presumption, yield to his request that I would write some words of preface.
Having been a regular church-goer for nearly sixty years, I have seen an extraordinary change come over public worship. The curious thing is that so many of the changes which were profoundly resented as innovations, and even as "popish" innovations, have very rapidly come to assume the position of immemorial traditions, which it requires considerable temerity to question. And yet I cannot doubt that they are very often hindrances and not helps to the spirituality and cordiality of worship.
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