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Practising the Bible

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jan 3, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 1.

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Practising the Bible

By Dr. E. O. Haven

I HAVE here a music-book, one used by singers. The object of this book is to teach and promote vocal music, and also instrumental music, to be employed in worship, commonly called sacred music. Now, how does this music-book teach music? Simply by being studied? Not at all. Suppose a person previously unacquainted with the science and art of music, who has never sung a strain, and has no ear for melody, takes this book and commits it to memory, will that make him a musician? He might almost as well swallow the book, and would derive about as much benefit from it! He must reduce the book to practise. He must make the sounds indicated, or the book is a dead letter to him. Precisely so is it with the Bible.—Dr. E. O. Haven.