Do people sing in all the churches in our country? Some years ago, a group of women in a church in the state of Virginia gave the officers of the congregation a sum of money which they had gathered, and requested permission to provide the congregation with hymn books. For more than a hundred years, the congregation had been conducting services without the singing of hymns.
We would think that such a thing would seldom happen, and it is true that a church in which there is no singing is almost impossible to imagine, as we see in our text for today. In our day, most churches are provided with hymn books.
But what about a situation when people don’t make use of hymn books, or don’t make proper use of them? If an unfamiliar hymn is going to be sung, a person closes the book, perhaps with a loud bang. And even when familiar hymns are sung, a person refuses to sing along. A person has no interest in singing, or is ashamed to sing.
We have a wonderful treasure in our hymns! Let us heed the exhortation of the Apostle with songs of thanksgiving!
Heavenly Father, we thank Thee for our precious treasure of spiritual songs. Amen. |
