The Service of Praise

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 10, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 15.

The Service of Praise.

PRAISE ought to be a great exercise of the Sabbath-school. No pains ought to be spared to promote this delightful art among the young. The love of music and sweet sounds has in it something refining and elevating. It can be consecrated to the noblest purpose, and can aid to make the heart happy while it engages it in the highest service of Almighty God. When we have persuaded a Sabbath-school child to learn and love Sabbath-school hymns and Sabbath-school music, we feel as if we had taught him the use of a faculty, the employment of which would bring God into his thoughts, solace his sadness, and accustom him to the contemplation of "joys unseen and hopes unrealized." We suppose it will be generally admitted, that children who sing, or love to hear singing, retain for a long time the impression which music makes on their mind; and it is obvious, that the impression which words make, when associated with music, are proportionally deep and permanent. Hence it is that we give singing a high place in the exercises of the Sabbath-school, as a means of grace.—Teacher's Choir.