SINGING IN CHURCH.

Southland Times, Issue 1116, 1 March 1869, Page 2

SINGING IN CHURCH.

(to the editoe of xiik snanuxu ti.m::s.) Sir, — At! ending the Soiree in the Scotch Cinid-'i Ji" otitor evening I heard the Chairman and one or two other spe ikers ve t ;-i«ii-e most e.^rnesily th.c conifivj^ations' 'ieli'-ieucy iv the mailer of sin^inif The Cii (ir.u .11 even su^' .-:.^eil that an ciYort sliould be- mad.- to si-cur« the services ot a professor Co teach the coii4i'e_atioii the t'v.-ory and .r-.-tice of music. W;'.h your ;>. v id-sio.i I would make a suu'ii'esi io;i which I have no d"lli)t would have an cii'-ct that would surprise those wii-) -i-unble so mac n a:: tuo poor s!n.:'ii.r. i'luan^ my s;mv m town !_ havi- attended t i^ 1 S-o- -a i':)iirc'i one,: or r.wi -tj and, siol e'ii^ aceti-: o^ied '■ o it, h ,ye iieeu Mtrr.-i -e-i )•• s,e 1.'.- co i^-e^ atiou s ; n.' — or :\t!c:npt •. o siiii^ -th ir Maker.- pra'-.- w.iiis: sin iv.;. Anyone who kn-..vs au\ ! : .M a-.;" a':)oii.. ihe matrer can toll taat >"it.;u_c in 11 - > v tiio pr-per position for a singer. S^e 1 ". t:e con^re^a- . tion g{-.t on their lej^s for a -S m lay or two, and rememhe; 1 t-n it s ; 'ij;iu^ re.]u:rc>s a little effort— a lit.lo pliy.>ical loice — and depend upon it tncre wo.jid soon insure from the. church a sulli -ieut volume of sound to make thf: praise hearty and hearil'eir, even altm)ii-. r 'n liie par.s or harmony mijiht not l.)e vtry anistii-aily or numerously represented. On the other hand, while they persist in the alaiosr, obsolete practice of sitting they wll jwer sin .; well, howe er prom-lent tLey miy be as tneorisis. — ium, Ac, * Visrrou. [We are assured that by insortuij: the ah->.-e IpHi.f, ifc may lead . o b3ne.ioi.ll re- . suits. — Ed. IS T j