SUNDAY SERVICES.

Evening Star, Issue 3853, 30 June 1875, Page 2

SUNDAY SERVICES.

To the Editor. Sm,—-The letter in your issue o! Saturday evening signed “H.,” seems to imply that at the Theatre services on Sunday evenings Sank&srs hymns are sung and aU others excluded. If H. has attended these services often, or has once glanced through the hymn book used at them, he ought to know that this is totally incorrect. The truth is'that -very many, if not most of the hymns contained in that book, were f in use long before Messrs Moody and Sankey began their evangelistic work. I have attended some of those meetings, though not all, and have heard the whole, or portions of the following hymns sung; “Just u I am,” “ Depth of Mercy,” “ Come, ye Smners,” and I am told that “ Old Hundredth” and Cowper’s “There is a fountain,” have •been sung there. “ H.” seems to manifest gnsat zeal for reverence, and is apparently shocked at what he calls the irreverence and profanity of these meetings. but the ninn who can apply the term “doggrel” to those beautiful hymns which have been blessed to many both inabotluid and England, and are loved and sung by thousands of intelligent Christians, shoubfnot speak of irreverence. I think I can safely say, he never heard aq, expression so unbecoming and irreverent uttered. by any of those who have taken part in these services. ** H.” complains of Messrs Moody and Sankey’s hymns recalling youthful reminiscences. If his when young, has been stored with vain and impure poetry, are the hymns to be rejected on that account? That is his misfortune, and no fault of theirs. , If “ kuew what itiato Worship God in the spirit, rejoicing inChrhit Jeaus,” 1 am pretty certain the echoes of “ Ken ye ought o’ Captain Grose ” aidl of.tfab negro melodies would soon die away.—l am, _ . Chbwtun, Dunedin, June 29.