The Good Old Way | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 14, 1872

The Good Old Way.

There are not a few city churches whose choirs would be benefited by a visit from the clergyman in Vermont, of whom the following incident is told: “Several years since he visited New York, and was invited to fill a city pulpit. He had never had the privilege of listening to a church organ, and was totally unacquainted with the fashion of hiring a few vocalists to do the singing for the congregation. Giving out his first hymn, the organist played a fancy prelude, and in the highest style of the art the choir rendered the four verses. Addressing the throne of grace in a fervent invocation, which stamped him as a man of intellect and power with his audience, he coolly re-opened the hymn-book, and, turning to the page, exclaimed—‘The audience will now join with me in singing a good old Methodist hymn, and those persons running that bag of wind in the gallery will please not interrupt.’”