Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1888-05-11

union and peace on the very terms yo,
and all our people agreed only a few
years ago. still stand on the old an,
true Bible ground and II there is TO b,
any division it will not come OF us. lol
can withdraw, il Won choose, but il is {
little too much for you to talk OF our go
ing out and being "A sect, when We occu.
py precisely the ground, all the ground
and no more, that We all occupied less
than ~ years ago. We have made NJ
change, except we have learned more oi
the Bible. and are better able to teach
and defend il. You are the departer.
Less than II years ago YOU opposed
and ridiculed the organ in the worship,
rs ! never have done. II you lave for
gotten, ask Bro. Harrison Hooker. My
sin is standing where YOU stood then,
/ (only am not and never was 81 rabid! }
and in trying to plead for the old paths
and ways, prevent divisions in the
churches and corruption of the worship,
etc.
THE PRECIOUS ORGAN.
s. You say that Miriam "resorted to
its use" Tx. l52O. She used the Tim
brel, kind ofdrum, which had no chords
though you seem to see her touching
them. Not word is said of the organ
or chords.
.. You say, The instrument ,organj
was used To aid the voice in praising the
God of Israel before the law of Moses
had ever been given etc. YOU could
give one particle of testimony in favor Of
this assertion might believeit. know
OF none at all. 1t is like the chords of
Nriam's timbrcl-aoa 81! II never had
any.
10 You say Iii il is granted that Il e
organ was used by Israel with divine al
proyal, as we know i, was, no ingenuity
Of man can ever show il may not now Ice
used with equal approval and profit
Your first mistake here is in saying
you "know il had the divine approval
God never lid approve of it in the wor-
ship. lie bore with Moderated it and
sent His prophets to regulate il, rs He
did kingly government, polyglmy, di-
vorce, etc. While He tolerated all these
and sought to regulate them, He never
them. The kingly govern
ment, polyganIy, dancing. cruelty and .
vengeance are as much approved rs the
use of the organ. Your testimony, il it (
proves anything, proves far too much. .
and all the women went out 1
with the timbrel-not the organ and .
dance. See Tx. li:20 and Ps. 1904. There .
is, then, just the same authority o. for 1
the dance that there is for the organ, /
How would il do to say, NO ingenuity .
of man can ever show il may not now Ice /
used with equal proprie,y and profit?''
How would such adance look around the I
Lords table? And how about polyga- I
my, divorce and without just cause, at .
the will ri the husband, etc? Would /
not this dose he rather large for you?
II. You twice speak Of "the organ in
aid OF the song service in worship" TAX
~ for granted that il does aid--the very
! ing denied! have in the past month
aborrd with eight churches here and
I'm very free to say that the singing in
seven of them, where the organ is not
tsed, is "A 100 per cent. superior To that
n stanford, where the organ is general
v used. Still, there are equally good
roices in Stanford. And this is my OBJ
ervation elsewhere. surely have wit
iesscd enough to Judge from its effects
whether it aids the song service. Il j. a
lcavy barnacle on it. Nnl this is the
testimony OF others in .A, PARTS Of the
and. When the organ is used the sing
ng is never so good. ! am assured bv
me who did aid the song service in your
'wn congregation largely and for long
ime that besides the discord and I'M
ind feeling produced by your introduce
NJ the organ, the singing has not been
ince and is not now half ~ good as it
vas before and without the organ! This
: the way il aids. II creates everywhere
discord among brethren" and largely in
urcs the singing
II. What you say OF ps,Ho and bopfi.n
am inclined to pass, with only notice
nough to assure you have read it. No
cholar, ] presume, understands it 50. II
'rof McGarvey's exposure Of your mis-
axe at this point was not efcctual, the
nw words could offer here would not be.
BESIDES, there is, | think, no danger OF
ny ones being deceived by it. The I'M
disputed facts that the Apostles and ear
Y christians did not use instrumental
music in the worship, when We all know
hey might-that it was as much needed
hen as it ever could be- that there was
10 organ in the worship for more than
90 years, are, suppose, absolute proof
hat God did not want it. Ii il was an
aid TO the song service" none OF the AN
tents knew it, after trial, in the tenn
lie worship, for 900 years. What Il
ity that We cannot he content without
he things that the Apostles rejected,