Tidbits on Christian Music

I found these little tidbits about instrumental music in the church.

"I have no objection to instruments of music in our chapels, provided they are neither heard nor seen" - John Wesley, founder of Methodism

"Musical instruments in celebrating the praises of God would be no more suitiable than the burning of incense, the lighting of lamps, and the restoration of the other shadows of the law." - John Calvin, founder of Presbyterianism

"What a degradation to supplant the intelligent song of the whole congregation by the theatrical preettiness of a quartert, the refined niceties of a choir, or the blowing off of wind for inanimate bellows and pipes! We might as well pray by machinery as praise by it." - Charles Spurgeon, esteemed Baptist preacher

Talk about forgetting your roots.