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Excerpt from Lyra Domestica: Translated From the Psaltery and Harp Of C. J. P. Spitta Wonderful accessions of faith and hope to the disciples, but even to bring the heathen to conversion; for there is testimony from the Early Fathers to show that Gentiles who were drawn to the Christian assem blies to hear their music, were touched by the Spirit and baptized before going away. It is also quite observable that those periods in the Church when the breaking forth of divine song among the people has been most original and universal, have been the periods of religious awakening. A new manifestation of Christ in the renewal of zeal and activity in his Living Body seems always to bring with it louder and heartier strains of musical adoration. It was cer tainly so when the Reformation reopened the fountains of religious feeling through Europe. The air of a continent was filled with ascending melodies. Not only did Ln ther himself justify this use of an art that the children of the world have no right to appropriate, saying, Every one knows how David and all Saints have put their divine thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song, but the joyous multitudes, who needed no for mal justification of what the God of Nature and the Holy Ghost inspired, took up the. 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.

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