A Sermon

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Excerpt from A Sermon: Preached in St. James's Church, Bury St. Edmunds, on Tuesday, the 10th of December, 1850, in Aid of the Funds, for the Repair of the Organ As the 148th Psalm had called upon all created nature to sing the praises of the great Jehovah, so in this short canticle, which concludes our collection of the ancient Hebrew hymns, the sacred poet invokes the aid of all the musical instruments at that time used in divine worship. Scarcely anything seems to have been omitted which could render the band harmonious and effective, from the martial notes of the great trumpet, to the humble accompaniment of the little castanet, which seems to be designated as a second kind of tzlatzal, or cymbal, the whole repertory is ransacked in order to give additional force to the devout strains of religious melody. To us the passage is interesting, because it shows us that we have a sufficient precedent for the instrumental music which we have introduced into our churches, it shows us that while the words of our service, of prayer and thanksgiving, are supplied by the prophetic muse of the Jewish sanctuary, we have introduced no incongruous elements in the varied notes of the organ, which rolls its majestic volume of sound through the stately aisles of our cathedrals. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.