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Originally Posted by Hippo wrote:  On a personal note I thrill at psalm singing, I cannot understand for the life of me why everyone does not sing psalms. |
I wonder that too. The few times I've sung from the Psalter, I enjoyed it very much. I was thinking, though, that if you asked your typical Joe/Josephine blow in your average church what the Psalter was, you'd probably see ?? in their eyes. Psalter? What's that? Such a great resource seems to be so unknown?
How did singing of Psalms ever get so 'pushed out' of the majority of today's churches? Did you ever wonder? Did the introduction of hymns have such a big impact on people that they wanted to leave behind the songs in the Psalter?