Sacred Music

  As the children of Israel journeying through the wilderness cheered their way by the music of sacred song, so God bids His children today gladden their pilgrim life. There are few means more effective for fixing His words in the memory than repeating them in song. And such song has wonderful power. It has power to subdue rude and uncultivated natures, power to quicken thought and to awaken sympathy, to promote harmony of action, and to banish the gloom and foreboding that destroy courage and weaken effort.--Ed 167, 168 (1903).  {LDE 86.3}  

   The human heart, given up to Him, will become a sacred harp, sending forth sacred music.--Lt 365, 1904. (2SM 254.)  {2MCP 674.2}