p. 10 | A Consecrated Choir

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 5, 1914

A Consecrated Choir

THE Watchman-Examiner tells of a prominent Protestant church in New York City which "has a quartet choir in which the soprano is a Roman Catholic, the alto a theosophist, the bass an agnostic, and the tenor not a Christian believer." The editor inquires: "How can any minister conduct a Christian service with such a choir as his assistants? Be sure the music committee of your church is composed of spiritually minded men. This is more important than that they shall have a technical knowledge of music, important as such knowledge is."

Surely those who are chosen to occupy official positions in the church and in the Sabbath school should be men and women of God. We should not think of placing as a teacher of our children in the Sabbath school one who himself has not experienced in his own life the power of the truth he is trying to teach. It is none the less important that those men and women who are asked to face the congregation and lead in God's spiritual worship should be those who sing not only with the understanding, but also with the Spirit of God inspiring their hearts and prompting their utterance.