[Biblemat] instrumental music in the denominations and the Catholic church

[Jessie]

Dear Brother Herbert Matthews, 
This is Brother Jessie Daniels,

If you can get the Gospel for Today by Foy E, Wallace, JR. you will have all the Documentation you will need on the Reformation notables. He gives the history of all them. Here are some of them. The Greek Catholic Church refused it and still rejects it. They do not use it today. Martin Luther rejected the use of the organ. He said: "The organ in the worship of God is an ensign of Baal." John Calvin, The originator of the Presbyterian Church, and author of the Calvinistic Creed, said of the organ in the worship: "It is no more suitable than the burning of incense, the lighting up of tapers or revival of the other shadows of the law. The Catholics foolishly borrowed it from the Jews."
 Adam Clark ranks among the most illustrious Bible commentators known to the world. He was a Methodist, contemporary with John Wesley. Concerning the organ in the worship, he said: "I am an old man and an old minister, and I here declare that I have never known instrumental music to be productive of any good in the worship of God, and have reason to believe that it has been productive of much evil. Music as a science I esteem and admire, but instruments of music in the house of God I abominate and abhor. This is the abuse of music, and I here register my protest against all such corruptions in the worship of that infinite Spirit who requires his followers to worship him in spirit and truth." 
Charles H. Spurgeon was the greatest Baptist preacher that has ever been produced. He preached for twenty years in the Metropolitan Baptist Tabernacle of London, England, to 10,000 people every Sunday. The mechanical instrument of music never entered the tabernacle of Spurgeon. When asked why he did not use the organ in worship he gave      I Corinthians 14:15 as his answer: I will pray with the spirit and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also," and remarked, I would as son pray to God with machinery as to sing to God with machinery."
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