2. Praise the Lord with harp. We need
all the help we can get to stir us up to praise. This is the lesson to be
gathered from the use of musical instruments under the old dispensation. Israel
was at school, and used childish things to help her to learn; but in these
days, when Jesus gives us spiritual manhood, we can make melody without strings
and pipes. We who do not believe these things to be expedient in worship, lest
they should mar its simplicity, do not affirm them to be unlawful, and if any
George Herbert or Martin Luther can worship God better by the aid of well-tuned
instruments, who shall gainsay their right? Sing unto him. This is the
sweetest and best of music. No instrument like the human voice. As a help to
singing this instrument is alone to be tolerated, for keys and strings do not
praise the Lord. With the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings. The
Lord must have a full octave, for all notes are his, and all music belongs to
him. Where several pieces of music are mentioned, we are taught to praise God
with all the powers which we possess.
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