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Show Sacred Music. When sacred music ceases to inspire devotion it defeats the end for which it was designed. When you hear a congregation con-gregation commenting at the end of a service, "What marvelous technique, what a heavenly soprano, the basso was almost divine," be sure of it that that choir needs swift reconstruction or else precipitate extinction.-But when you hear men say, "O that music! how my soul was lifted up in the presence of my Savior."' then raise your hat in reverence to the fingers, the intellects and the voices of those who did these sacied things. For there is an everlasting everlast-ing distinction between music as an art and music as a stimulus to devotion. devo-tion. Though a Sohiunan composed it, a Mozart performed it and a Son tag sang it, if the composition does not lead us to love and honor our Creator with n greater intensity it has no phice in the liturgy of the Church of God. Paulist Calendar, Chicago. ' ' - - .ar --x-... ...J....I.I.,!.. m.. |
