Duty--the Command Of Heaven, The Eldest Voice

Music. – There Is Something Very Wonderful In Music. Words Are Wonderful Enough: But Music Is Even More Wonderful. It Speaks Not To Our Thoughts As Words Do: It Speaks Straight To Our Hearts And Spirits, To The Very Core And Root Of Our Souls. Music Soothes Us, Stirs Us Up; It Puts Noble Feelings Into Us; It Melts Us To Tears, We Know Not How: – It Is A Language By Itself, Just As Perfect, In Its Way, As Speech, As Words; Just As Divine, Just As Blessed.

And How High Is Christ's Cross? As High As The Highest Heaven, And The Throne Of God, And The Bosom Of The Father That Bosom Out Of Which Forever Proceed All Created Things. Ay, As High As The Highest Heaven! For If You Will Receive It When Christ Hung Upon The Cross, Heaven Came Down On Earth, And Earth Ascended Into Heaven.

Three Fishers Went Sailing Away To The West, Away To The West As The Sun Went Down; Each Thought On The Woman Who Loved Him The Best, And The Children Stood Watching Them Out Of The Town.

Do Not Fancy, As Too Many Do, That Thou Canst Praise God By Singing Hymns To Him In Church Once A Week, And Disobeying Him All The Week Long. He Asks Of Thee Works As Well As Words; And More, He Asks Of Thee Works First And Words After.

We Ought To Reverence Books; To Look On Them As Useful And Mighty Things. If They Are Good And True, Whether They Are About Religion, Politics, Farming, Trade, Law, Or Medicine, They Are The Message Of Christ, The Maker Of All Things - The Teacher Of All Truth.