INSTRUMENT MUSIC

TOM L. CHILDERSOctober 16, 2013

BEGINNING OF THE

HENDERSON CHURCH OF CHRIST

WHAT OTHERSHAVE SAID

INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC

MUSICAUTHORIZE

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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 WESLEY1703-1791

JOHN WESLEY1703-1791

I have no opposition to the organ in our

chapel provided it is neither seen nor

heard.

ADAM CLARKE1762-1832

ADAM CLARKE1762-1832

Music, as a science, I esteem and admire; but instruments of music in the

house of God I abominate and

abhor.

Metropolitan TabernacleBaptist 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

“PLAY ONMISS BERTHA”

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