TylerRay
Puritan Board Graduate
Here is a link to R. L. Dabney's review of J. L. Girardeau's Instrumental Music in the Public Worship of the Church.
I found this quotation remarkable:
I found this quotation remarkable:
Dr. Girardeau is supporting the identical position held by all the early fathers, by all the Presbyterian reformers, by a Chalmers, a Mason, a Breckinridge, a Thornwell, and by a Spurgeon. Why is not the position as respectable in our author as in all this noble galaxy of true Presbyterians? Will the innovators claim that all these great men are so inferior to themselves? The ideal seems to be that the opposition of all these great men to organs arose simply out of their ignorant old-fogyism and lack of culture; while our advocacy of the change is the result of our superior intelligence, learning and refinement.