Reforming the Psalter by W. H. S.

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Dec 8, 1914

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 41, No. 48.

Reforming the Psalter

By W. H. S.

CRITICIZING previous attempts to provide a selection of scriptures suitable for responsive reading, an advertisement of a recent work of the character mentions that a former one retained “even such a sentence as ‘The dead praise not the Lord.’” “From this prevailing fault,” says the advertisement, “the collection below named is uniquely free.”

The fact remains, however, that whether the churches can use such passages in their worship or not, many such are found in the Bible; and it would be more in harmony with Christianity to bring the doctrine into accord with these, than to drop them as “unsuitable.” W. H. S.