Return to Simple Congregational Church Music
A good healthy feeling seems to be springing up for a return to that kind of church music which is simple, grand, and congregational, instead of the agonizing efforts of operatic and quartette singers. The Christian at Work, in its issue of May 29, well says:— “We need in our Protestant church service to discard the meretricious and florid for the simple and majestic, and the sooner the church does this the better for the integrity of its worship and the cause of sacred music as well. To hear a Dutchman out of all sympathy with evangelical worship rise and sing a solo, ‘I will arise and go to my vader,’ or, ‘Dish ish der tay ter Lord has made,’ is neither edifying to angels nor profitable to men; we can’t get out of that sort of thing too soon.”