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Singing in the Family

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 2, 1873

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 42, No. 25.

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Singing in the Family.

Singing in the family adds greatly to the interests of devotional exercises, especially among children. It helps to make the family altar a pleasant place.
The moral influence of vocal music, of a sanctified character, has always been pleasant in the extreme.
Show us the family where good music is cultivated, where the parents and children are accustomed often to mingle their voices in song, and we will show you one, in almost every instance, where peace, harmony, and love, prevail, and where the base, gross vices have no dwelling place.
Music, like an angel from the courts of Paradise, can throw around the soul a thousand heavenly influences, and charm it into the paths of virtue.
Is it not to be regretted that good men—heads of families—who are regular in their morning and evening devotions, should omit singing?
What more delightful scene this side of Heaven than parents, with their sons and daughters, united in the domestic circle devoutly mingling their voices in sacred song?