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INSTRUMENT MUSIC TOM L. CHILDERS October 16, 2013. BEGINNING OF THE HENDERSON CHURCH OF CHRIST. WHAT OTHERS HAVE SAID. INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC. MUSIC AUTHORIZED.
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Musical instruments in celebrating the praises of God would be no more suitable than the burning of incense, the lighting of lamps, and the restoration of the other shadows of the law.
JOHN WESLEY 1703-1791
I have no opposition to the organ in our chapel provided it is neither seen nor heard. JOHN WESLEY 1703-1791
ADAM CLARKE 1762-1832
Music, as a science, I esteem and admire; but instruments of music in the house of God I abominate and abhor. ADAM CLARKE 1762-1832
Metropolitan Tabernacle Baptist Church in London, England Charles H. Spurgeon
I would as soon pray to God with machinery as to sing to God with machinery. Charles H. Spurgeon
MISS BERTHA • Mrs. Bertha Mason Fuller, aged 83, of 1818 Summit Avenue, a retired minister and missionary for the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) died Tuesday at a Little Rock hospital. • She was the widow of Rev. James Henry Fuller, former pastor of the Wright Avenue Christian Church, and had lived at Little Rock 40 years. A native of White County, Mrs. Fuller graduated from Texas Christian University and served as a missionary in Mexico from 1896 to 1911, interspersed by speaking and fund-raising assignments in the United States.
ARGUMENTS FOR INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC • Psallo argument • An aide like a hymn book • No authority needed • Silent argument - does not say not to use it • Instrumental music in Old Testament and in heaven • Reaches the lost