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We clip the following from The West ern Recorder: Consciously or uncon sciously the mind responds to music, and jazz is not conducive to worshipful ser vice. Particularly noticeable is the tendency toward gay and meaningless music in “revivals” and “protracted meet ings.” Too often a blatant song-leader is employed who introduces a sort of slap stick comedy into his methods in order to “draw the crowds.” After a mad gal lop through half a dozen or more songs of cheap sentiment and syncopated time, accompanied by a musician who pounds the keys with fancy-tickling trills and runs, people are sometimes swept into the church on this tide of emotionalism, never having felt any repentance for sin.
The magnetic Gospel of the Son of God needs no cheap embellishment. Oh, if the ministers of the land realized that the great restless heart of humanity is hun gering for the simple Bread of Life! Oh, that we might have a revival of the grand old hymns, rich in sentiment and truth 1 Here is the judgment of the late Dr. Jowett: “We are great only as we are God-possessed f and scrupulous appoint ments in the upper room with the Master will prepare us for the toil and hard ships of the most strenuous campaign. We must, therefore, hold firmly and steadily to this primary principle that of all things that need doing this need is su
preme, to live in intimate fellowship with God. Let us steadily hold a reasonable sense of values, and assign each ap pointed duty to its legitimate place. And in any appointment of values this would surely be the initial judgment, that noth ing can be well done if we drift away from God. Neglected spiritual fellow ship means futility all along the road.” With high appreciation Dr. Jowett quotes from the journal of Dr. Andrew Bonar, prepared with no thought that it would ever be s'een by any eye but his own, these words which show how Dr. Bonar felt about prayer: “It is my deepest regret that I pray so little. I should count the days, not by what I have of new instances of useful ness, but by the times I have been able to pray in faith, and to take hold upon God. . . . . I see that unless I keep up short prayer every day throughout the whole day, at intervals,- I lose the spirit of prayer. . . . . To o much work without corresponding prayer.;” If you must disobey God, seek a place where He cannot see. you. An idle brain is the advance agent of a busy tongue. i— 0— He who rightly estimates time will not be wretched in eternity. — o— A man may pray on his knees to the end of time, but as long as he preys on the neighbors he will not reach the ear of God.
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