Education in Sacred Music

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · May 16, 1878

Education in Sacred Music.

THE education of the young in sacred music is an object of high importance; and every child, as is proved in the schools of Prussia, may be taught to sing. Music, as well as the reading of our own language, should be taught in our common-schools; and our children accustomed to sing, as well as to talk and read.

Sacred music should be cultivated in Christian families, and used in the seasons of morning and evening devotion. A more delightful scene cannot be presented on this side of heaven than when parents, with their sons and daughters, surround the family altar, and devoutly unite their voices in sacred song. Such services will promote domestic happiness and kind affections. Pious feelings will be aided, and steps quickened in the way to heaven.