Comment on the Report of the Introduction of Hymns (2)

The committee had not before its eye the issue and thus reasoned besides the point when it contended that whereas in the Old Testament dispensation the entire tabernacle and temple service in all particulars was regulated by divine precept, and whereas in the New Testament there is no trace of such regulation of wor­ship, and whereas this regulation is rooted in the char­acter of the new dispensation, the New Testament Church may regulate its service, in particular its song service. No one...