“Let us persevere in our singing of the simple old truths in the simple old hearty way that God has already blessed so widely to the salvation of souls and making and training of red-hot soldiers. How thoughtlessly many sing familiar words. Yet, here is a great treasury of truth you will but search into its riches. Be determined that by God’s grace you will never sing what you do not really mean and that you will be fit to sing all you find here!
Sing to make the world hear! The highest value of our singing after all has not been the mere gladness we have felt because of our own salvation, but the joy of pouring out the praises of our God to those who have not known Him, or of arousing them by our singing to new thoughts and a new life.
Sing till your whole soul is lifted up to God, and then sing till you lift the eyes of those who know not God to Him who is the fountain of our joy. I cannot imagine in Heaven itself we can cease to remember and to repeat to each other the strains our souls have reveled in most here below. Till then, let us all sing!”
Youth Department