Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1914-07-02
INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC
MUSIC IN HEAVEN

/ unpardonaDle degree, on Instrumental
music in connection with song servic-
es in your paper, please permit me to
sulighten him little on that subject.
After assaulting the so called "Ho-
illness folks for their instrumental mu-
sic, Uncle Tom says: away with
all kinds of instrumental music, even
the organ in a revival service, and re-
turn to the old fashioned way of saw
ug souls" and also, "We are plan
ing for great revival in the near fu-
ture and we expect TO run it only in
the old fashioned way. We want none
of this fol de ror stuff at all. " Now,
let us see which is the older way of
the two.
In Heaven nothing else is done but
to serve and worship God, always,
playing instrumental music with their
singing, as Rev. V. SO shows, for
those passages rightly translated,
show that the four Beasts Greek, liv-
ing beings), and the four and twenty
elders. played on their harps, Greek,
outheras, sringed instruments), with
their singing, as an accompaniment to
the instrumental music, it, the play
ing, being the principal part, RIGHT
THERE IN HEAVEN ITSELF, where
worship is perfect, where ALL KNOW
God, and the right way to worship
Him.
9. In Rev. IA, is. of the hundred
and forty four thousand, who stood
with the Lamb Christi on Mount
Zion in HEAVEN ITSELF it, in the
Greek, says they played on their harps
| (Greek, kitharas, stringed instru-
ments), aud sung a new song, as an
accompaniment to the music, and in
their mouth was found no guile, for
they are without fault before the
throne of God,' and this, too, was in
HEAVEN, ITSELF, where ALL are
much better and more perfect than
either "Uncle Tom or |, and of
course this instrumental music was
played with the vocal singing in the
immediate presence of God and by His
order, in the Church of the First Born
in the General Assembly in Heaven.
Heb. xii, 2.
The English itself CLEARLY indi-
Gates my translation of the Greek, and
all persons who know God, SURELY
do know that instrumental music has
been going on in Heaven with song
service, even since God created Heav-
Ell nearly 5000 years ago, and 80 it
is Gods old fashioned way, and Gun
Gle TOMS is only the DEVILS new
fashioned way, not yet 1000 years old
no, not 500 years old.
3. All intelligent people know that
the Old Testament Scriptures were or
iginally written in the Hebrew Ian
guages, and the New in Greek, and
in every single instance where psalms,
hymns and songs. in both old and
New Testament, were enjoined upon
the people in hundreds of instances,
the PLAYING of them upon the xith-
ara, dulcimel, organ, yiol, stringed
instruments, trumpets, pipes, cymbals
and spalteries, was primarily COM
MANDED of God, Himself. and the
singing of these songs as by voice, as
an accompaniment, was only .conse-
quently enjoined, from the beginning
of Genesis to the end of Revelation
the beginning and end of the Bible.
d. The trumpet makes about the |
poorest or sorriest music of any instru
ment, yet it is mentioned So times in |
Gods Bible, approved of God, and in
one of these, Zech iv:14, it is express
ly declared that God Himself shall |
blow the trumpet, and if it is right |
for God, the Father, to blow it in His
we know it is also right for
his children to also blow it in His
worship.
5. In Rev. xv,t3, rightly transa-
ted, we find all who had gotten the
victory over the beast and over his i'm
age, and over his mark and over the
number of his name, standing on the
sea of glass, playing on the HARPS
OF GOD, and singing the song of
Moses, the servant Of God, and the
Song of the Lamb, thus blending in
ITSELF the Old and New
Testament dispensation of instrument
Al and vocal music, BOTH TOGETH-
Err IN HEAVEN, with the harps
SOD HIMSELF MADE IN HEAVEN
,or them to use there in His worship.
So we know it is right to use them in
9od's worship here on earth.
8. Thus we find God is the inventor
If the harp and the AUTHOR of its
lse in Ills worship. There is but one
sounding instrument which the devil
invented, originated, made and used
ind that is the tuning fork and / find
Uncle Tom" sort of folks use it, but
eject God s harps.
Z. "Uncle Toms fol lie rol
tuff" cannot belong to musical enter
because "fol de roll is
and nonsense consists of
words or languages which have no
meaning, or which convey no just
deas." which consists Of the human
,oice sounding ia, sol, la me, and
do, re, see, notes, which were in
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