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Page 10 THE OAKVILLE-TRAFALGAR JOURNAL Nelson Crushed Stone Various Sizes of Clear and Crusher Run Stone for Roads and Driveways INFORMATION AND QUOTATIONS PHONE Oakville 694 or Burlington 4904 MUSIC ALBUM BY IRVEN FELL Sir Krnest MacMillan, writing in his book "Hymns of the Church," tells us that the Jewish converts of the early days re- membered how deeply music had entered into the life of the peo- ple of their race; how there was singing in the vineyard, at the wine press, beside the well and in the fields. There were also the triumph-songs at the welcoming home of returning heroes, the joy songs at marriage feasts and the mournful laments at the burial of the dead Trying to bring this description into comparison with our every- day living, I find that this fits the age in which we live today. -- We have our mournful music at funerals, our joyous songs at ee us for all your tire needs. ORKVILLE MOTORS Chevrolet - Oldsmobile Sales & Service PHONE 2220-1-2 Opposite New Century Theatr The best place in town to buy Bl] weddings, many people singing at their work and in some cases we find that "in certain workshops there is music piped to the em- ployees over a loud speaker sys- tem, In our religious life, I find a certain reticence on the part of most people to sing out and give vent to their feelings. Of course, our modern ideas of culture are such that it is almost vulgar to sing out in such a u that the person next to you can hear you. One even has to be careful (at least some people think so, not 1) in telling what artists i ten to and the kind of music you like, T am not going into that at present--so I will return to the subject of religious music To my mind the most sincere singing is to be found among the Negro spirituals. I say this be- cause I often visualize, when I hear this form of singing, the spontanéous outburst of these Negro gathered around their huts giving vent to their deeply religious feelings in song. Some- times - they were sad, sometimes joyous and almost in all cases they spread the idea of faith in God. "All God's Chillun' got shoes," "Joshua fit the battle of Jericho and the walls came tum- bling down," "Deep Home is Over Jordan others. Sir Ernest MacMillan quotes some passages of Scripture, for and many Thursday, May 81, 1957 WINS SCHOLARSHIP wren. | ENJOY LIFE... Edw Mr. and Mrs. Leonard A. Stans- 16 Blmwood Road, has been EAT OUT MORE OFTEN awarded a scholarship worth $900 by the National Research ST FAK Council. He is ars of age, and is now in his second y J the University of Toronto, where an he is taking a research course for his Ph.D. He has already earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees. . ... Our Specialty sang in the church (he alw sat in the back pew) with such was told that he received a let- ter from the minister asking him gusto that he could be heard above even the choir. Finally, I 0 op --_-- not to be so enthusiastic. I believe from my reading that church or religious singing start- ed with the early Christians giv- ing vent to their feelings just as the spirit moved them. I find no evidence that our regular music service as we know it was in vogue in the early Now, I am not suggesting that our services be interspersed with outbursts from here and there, with Tom, Dick and maybe Mary bursting forth in song just as the minister is reading the Scripture (my wouldn't that be awful). As 4 matter of fact, I doubt if there are very many people who ever feel as if they could, at least on || gg However, it would be better if we could get just a little bit of the fervor in our congregational FROM singing, the type which would lead a stranger to believe that we are sincere and religious. A 77 In closing I suggest that we be not surprised when we hear the milkman or the breadman, In cream content, flavour anyone else singing a little and laboratory purity tests as they go about their daily jilbrea Dairy milk is tops. routine of business That, my From dairy farm to deliv- friends is the kind of musie|| ory we guard its taste and which is going to make a dif- i ference in this world purity. If RONALD EDGECOMBE, 134 +. ;SNIDRRIS Gloucester St, will call in at Loftquist's Record Bar, he will GILBREA DAIRY be presented with a Red Seal Dundas: at Church Record with the compliments of PHONE 51 the Journal. a DAIRY PHONE GILBRER | qhursd instance, "Be filled with the Spirit; speaking to yourselves in Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual songs, singing and making mel- ody in your heart to the Lord" (Eph. V 18-19) It is not heard to find many instances in the Bible where the people of the day were called upon to sing unto the Lord, to teach and admonish one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, to sing with grace in your hearts, sing with the spirit and with understanding. I_once heard of a man who "Phone us for . . . © BRICK SIDING ROOFING INSULATION MATERIALS CEMENT PLASTER WALL BOARD PLYWOOD You can pay more, but you cannot buy better millwork anywhere . . . a trial order will con- vince you. that counts. 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