Music Healthful

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Michigan · Jul 29, 1862

MUSIC HEALTHFUL.—Music, like painting and statuary, refines, elevates, and ennobles. Song is the language of gladness, and it is the utterance of devotion. But coming lower down, it is physically beneficial, it rouses the circulation, wakes up the bodily energies, and diffuses life and animation around. Does a lazy man sing? Does a milk and water character ever strike a stirring note? Never! Song is the outlet of mental and physical activity, and increases both by its exercise. No child has completed a religious education who has not been taught to sing the songs of Zion. No part of our religious worship is sweeter than this. In David's day it was a practice and a study.