Friday, January 20, 2017

Home Music

In the course of the years the number of musical pieces that accumulate in your parlor grows into a miniature library; is there a hymn-book among them?  It does seem going too far to suppose this question can have any place.  Surely one would say there is no such place as a Christian home without a collection of religious hymns.

Perhaps you play and sing yourself, father and mother, and often entertain your children in this way; what do all those words mean which they enjoy so much because they are intoned by the sweetest voices on earth?  Not of course the silly vanities which are accompanied by everyday popular airs.


But are they words which turn their tender minds and hearts towards God?  Has it ever been brought home to you how much all this has to do with the lives your children lead, with their dispositions and habits of conduct and character?

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