The Character of Church Singers

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 12, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 43.

The Character of Church Singers

Who would endure the preaching and praying of a godless, immoral man? Who would commit the guidance of his soul to an infidel blasphemer? Yet the kind of singers that we sometimes employ to voice devotion and instruct in song—well, what shall be said upon the subject? It is no marvel that members of the choir make more or less trouble in churches when we remind ourselves that frequently they are hired without consideration of character fitness, and that the sanctifying influences of the Holy Spirit are scarcely ever invoked upon the irritable, perverse hearts that have not been instructed or expected to worship God from the choir loft.—Sel.