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 Miivuil hy Ukvv Mk.' Miim)i,k»ihh tM^coiiilul liy Kkv. JoirN Fhaikr, 
 
 That tlio .S.vihmI hnviiig lii-Ant an*! niiiisiiU-rutl thu TOtiima U^ tho nvortnr* 
 fmiii Knox ('Imrdli, Moiitrval, aiieiit tlio uhu of (iMtriiinciital Music in 
 Piililiu yVonliiii, liiul tliat a majority of I'n tthy tcrius, arc on vnriou* 
 SroiinilH ojtp^iHeil t;4> thu ^rauting of tlid itrayor of tfliu Haiti overtnra, and 
 thorvftire itif niK) t«> grant tho anaw } anil nf tur f ntl cnnai^tuVatiriir of thci ailb' 
 joot, <lu\;;jaro thiit tho uhu of liiHtniniuntaLMusic in |riihlie wnri«hi)» ia 
 eontrary t<r tho i>viiid]»Iu8 ami innnuniorial |)racticu of this Churuh aiml it not 
 t«t he (lurttrittotl In aiiy uim^frogation vonuu(tt«Ml therewith : Ami further 
 Chti SyittMl cannot rofrain from ux|iniH8iiig rugrut tlfiit, notwithatanflin^ 
 roiHiatod rooouH;n>lationH, bo little intoroiit iH taken gonttrally with a view 
 to the iniimtvcinoiit of thu jsorticu of praiso in pultlic w»nihi|i ; and aKsin 
 nr);e on Kirk fHSfiMioiw and ( 'ongrt'gationH to conHiclor their roiipnusibility 
 in the matter aiwl to lie at {MiinH anil uxiiouhu with a view to tlie imprvv** 
 mont of this inqNirtant part uf puUlic worttliiiK 
 
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 In secoiidinj^ tlic above luotiou MWptASEIl 
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 MODEHATOJf,— ** 
 
 NoTiirm* iH iH(>P(y«)ut of pkco tlian tlio roflftctfons wInVIi ATvr 
 ciUiton tho Gatdic a<Ilk;r()ut.s of our Churoli. ];)i^4like tif tliese inticv' 
 vaiions is not >i iMjculinrity of thit ]{|gliliuiitci'H ; Ulid qven if it 
 wore, is thei-o a heart in tlio Fr<H) Oliuvch of Sct)tliin<l that does iiot 
 beat in uniwM witU thoii- feelings ? Thi^y foi;] Btn>ngly. Itwoiild 
 be a wonder— porliaps aif tinhupjiy indiention — if they did not. 
 It wonld l)0, to nwj at least, tho sigri. of an altered^ — .a decltiiing 
 loyalty to tho Clunrh of tlieir fatheix— of a declining |>iety. Tliey 
 love their Chiii-ch; tlioy 4ov"o her witK an intense, a chivalrous 
 affection. Tho very rocks and watei-ljflls of their native glens are 
 lioly for her siike. Cradled in their /lorthtfrn hiRs, whei* Preaby- 
 torianism hiis had for ages tiie whiJc fiehl to itself, ;they know no 
 church but ono ; and sad and untimely is, the legislation thiCt.wouId 
 sorely aiggrieve and alienate the hearts of tliat faithful and ardent 
 j)eople by the ^ngraftinont, in the face of their conscientious protests, 
 of a foi-eign clement, on the service of our Hanctuarios, against 
 which the Presbyterian, sentiment of. Scotland is so strong as to - 
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 But our Chiolic jjpoplo un) not »i|oiio in tliiH AMtllii^ of iMlimHion 
 to tho uiurtjHtnil UHiiguH of tlio (Miuixli. J know u congnjipition of 
 liOwlantlorH, iH!iIm|m fi-oni tho IuIIh of Uiunvk or tlio fair ItunlcH of 
 tli« 'lV«t«I, wimn! a rliango in tlicii (I«)voti<»nal forniH Ity tint intm- ' 
 Auction of a liook of liynniH mmto<l a m^vm of unliappy violttncu 
 timt ovuntually tonninated in a wi<I« Unuivh. Call it ignoranw, 
 ifyouwill— or obHtinacy, ..r l.igotry, or ruHtic [u-ojudico; UimI 
 our noojdo lovo their CJhuivIi witli a thivotion 8y deep, ho true, 
 MH that you aro not able to Ixuid it to an acqui«KC(^n«-n in ehangnH 
 which violato tho Hiniplicity of u horvico onRhnnoil by h(.ly njun»-. 
 
 orioH in thoir fon<hwt v«n«ration — in tliat a thing to 1h) (h'|»h»nMl 
 
 to-J)e tivatod with indignation— ^to b« hohl up for Hatirw— for tliu 
 trtunt« and aeorhity of an omtoncal invoctive ? You ph<ad for it 
 ou.thu gitjund of cx|M!di«ncy or (^ tuHtti ; they resist it on tho 
 gnmnd of conHcienco. Wliat! <Io«h that pi-ovoko a HiniloT Dp 
 you not know that thei-o ai-o men in thin and in other ohuixhes— 
 nionof world-wide i-eimtation— who Iwlievo not only that tlie New 
 Testaniont d(»eH not i-oeognizo the sound of instruments as a con- 
 genial element in the devotions of tho Cliuixh, but that it virtually, 
 or by implication, Gondemns it »iK foreign and i-oi)ulKiveto the genius 
 and the Wring of an evangelical <lisi)en8jition. Is there not one 
 a^ least of our own Presbyteries that takes that view of tho ques- 
 tion! Is not that, too, the belief of a largo minority in tho 
 Presbytery of Toronto t In the United Hbites a connpicuous Ixnly 
 of Presbyterians jwint to that ^ry principle as lying at tho base of 
 their existence as a distinct or^niaition. It is a fidhicy to call 
 it u prejudice. What confi-onts you is a sober, deliberate convic- 
 tion ; tho pi-otest of sincere and honest minds. Thoro are brethren 
 in this Gourt whose hearts are now aching with distressful anxiety ; 
 who feel that if the Syfiod will give its legislative sanction— broad 
 and formal — to these innovations, the spheres of their usefulneiw 
 will be broken up. Talk qf "tyi-anny !"— of "cruelty!"— if the jwlicy 
 that you desire to pi-ess upon the Synwl be adopted, who, then, 
 will havoi a right to complain of "tymnny," — of a *' cruel" 
 disregard of feelings the most sacitsd in the human heart ?— 
 With all your ardour for those changes, that apjMjar to you to be 
 fio desii-abie on the gi-ound, as you tell us, at once of reason, - 
 Scripture,and expediency— would you jxjrsistontjv demand them— 
 would you even accept of them ifet 8uch a cost? 
 
 Ther^is dangcivSir, th^t the Synod may forget or under 
 estimate the i-oal luiture of that antipathy witli which our peojJe 
 ^gaixl tjiis question of Instruniontal Music, an«l that it may be 
 tempted toslui|>e its action as if it had to deal with only the noisy 
 and insighificant claniours of a blind prejudice or an obstinate 
 caprice. \If there is a time when one lias a right to expect that 
 
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 the Cliiilvli of (}«hI will coviu* liiiu with th«« hIiicIiI of hi>i- HVinfiiahy 
 liiui pnitiHtiiin, it*Tf »lnfri 4>(>iiM«ioiic«« in fuiriHl to ii1«<imI ftn- tlio 
 inviolnliility of itH lN!li(>HtH. 
 
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 It in iutko^l: " WhySiot j»mnt thin lilM«ity to coiif^t^f^iitionR that 
 iltwiiv it J — tlu'io in no wIhIi, iinil thorn will Ih) noattttiiipt, t«» violiito 
 tho HghtH of othoi-H or iiiolfHt thoiii iu thoir woiit«Nl hnhitH of 
 duvotioii." — That, Hir, Ih not i*r(tKl)yt«iiiiniMni ; it Ih ()«inKiitgiitionHl- 
 iMni, and itH iiMlioal priui;i[>l(i of (liMint<tgiiition. liorn nnd htvtl in 
 a |*irCHl»yt«rian cliniute— itH hiiwinf^ vigor in thoir ImwrtH— th« 
 unity of the Ohurch in with our intople u funiliinuuittil idoal Tluit 
 wintiuient, Sir, in Htitingth. FoMt«r it. It iH a [dojlgtt to our ('liuivh 
 of p<)wer>— of |)er]>i)tuity. I do not mean to nay that no act iH oon- 
 Rtitiitional unlcuM thw Ohuru|i l»« of one mind ; but I do muau to 
 Miy, that tt piiictico at on«! «nd of th« uhuixh, with Synmlical 
 HAnction to contirm it, againHt which there w a cry of couHcience 
 froni the otlier, ih a Kt-atc of tliingH utterly doHtructivu of timt 
 unity which couHtituteH tlio geniuH and the glory of our Pi-eHliytei-iiut 
 Bysteni. 
 
 There ai-o 8ome who pletid for it on the ground that it 
 oontiibuteR to '* ediiicatioiK" Sir, if I were, able to Heo any truth 
 in tliat argument, the SynotI Hhould not hear a wowl from n»o, nor 
 from thiH uide of the houH^v^in a tone of remouHtrance or of opjio- 
 Ritipn. Can yoi^^||||Mie'that iiwtnunental muHic wiih an element 
 in the Hervic0 ofllj^primitivo church? Can you hIiow that for 
 the first three centuries theitj' wiih any other form of praiHe than 
 the simple melody of the Iminan voice? Did the f!hurch then feel 
 that there was a check on the {trdour and the elevation of her devo- 
 tional spirit in the meagreness of her .psalmody— in its lack of 
 . orchestral variety and grandeur ? Of course you think tliei-e must 
 Lave been — you who plead for it as the means of a loftier spirit- 
 uality^ — a more ecstatic Adoration;-^and yet when was there such a * 
 faith, a love, a beauty of holiness so pure, illustrious, divine; and 
 when were the glories of a lisen Saviour sung in a more felicitoua 
 aooordance witii His own deseription of what constitutoH the life 
 and the true magnificence of an acceptable worsliip 1 How much 
 better to put it, and Im content to lejive it, on the only gi-ound on 
 which it can i-easonably bew: to be put:— the ground simply of 
 " taste"— of " exiietliency"— -of " accommodation 1" I here dechire 
 that it belongs wholly to the region, not of inviolable principle or 
 of conscience, but of mere sentiment. I solemnly proclaim it — 
 that the question which now agitates the Synod, and hangs over us 
 like a cloud, ia one to which the Church of the living God owes 
 absolutely notliing for the fructification of her inner life. It has 
 been made to appear, however, iu a way tliat astonished the Church, 
 

 
 IpUion «f Knox C'lnurl,, MuntitW. LilM-mlity .h « ( 'I.HHUan 
 
 U,*l^ct,fio,l,„„t.v.ofa tru.Ml,riHti,u. ,n.,m The infiM 
 
 ^c^ who - a»Mt of th„l, Hl,aiul,u..n" iuto tho trmHiUT of t .« 
 
 ODn-ideranon than th« amount of Utitu.le whid.lA ,& 
 them in the matter of InHtnunimt^il Mymcl* , ^ 
 
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 It wan argued on behalf of 'tl.e«e "chan^m at the taut flvnod 'f n 
 Toronto that m Kome placen at lea«t they^n, iu.liH^Kirihn. th^ 
 Mi« tenoo of congregationH^-that without tlu, n.agio L>w« r of initn" 
 inental muaic the g,mt My of our young .kJJ^.Io wTlT fal "0^"; 
 from Uie communion of tl.o Church, attnutml by tlio 1, u arlS 
 Jdendid entertainment of other .leuon.i.mtiom. ^ Thia,' Si^ if true ^ 
 wouW be a dark ,,n«.,,ect, Mut T <lo not believe^ {7' What! 
 ^^hey mean to aaaure ua that the pulpita of our Chun^h are w 
 
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 ■ ■ IZSt ^ **",^«", *«/''« f'^t.iHtic exi,edient ofano«ranand ' 
 
 to ourcauae ? Doee Brownlow North need tJie echoing harmonies 
 
 o«»«ory tha* regales the fancy, and .wakea up the thrill of a fleotin* 
 jmotwnal transport ; we must rely o(a the purity oiher d^riSSf 
 *he efficacy of heroHinancea, and th'e apo«to£ fer^oSr of heY^^^ 
 
 *abernacfc8 the birth-place of souk It is then that our peoole 
 joy —their "resting place "—their "home". 
 
 Iow3l ^^^ii L .m "* f '*• whether the organ waa aUow«d or dlMl- 
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 TImt, HIr, in • Nuhjma wliitli cnllM fr th<i mntmi «!(tiiHi<iin«Uoii iif 
 thf. NyiM»«l. I lun m,iTy Ut my tlurf, my own «x|i«ri«iio« in iiot Nuoh 
 an ihrtt I «iiii i«|M«Hk III luiMlntory Unvjin of our Hk ill («• ro|Hitotioii m 
 a (Jliitmli III tiM mirviw of pniiiw. Allow ow, howAver, to tmy 
 tlmt altlioiiKli I Ho not ofto,, „njoy tii« o,i|K.rtunity of IimHi'ik 
 tlmt i«rt of .hviiM^ w<irNlii|. with tli« >^l4>KAiidi^N of nrt to wloni It, 
 It ta my fnH|U(<iit {irivil*^ to li«u^i| in «„«! to join in th« KtiaiiinKH 
 of HHimpIo IIII.I |Mith«ti.; in«.I«Kly tlmt (Mnnm in tli« fiilnAMiof aWtive 
 Mttemnf« from h«irt« nwltinl by tJm iK.wtr of a Kiviour'H love. 
 We art) n.>t m a miiul to olwtnurt tlie HymNJ in any practiail.le or 
 Jwlicioiw mnaMiimti which it may Iw M t<» n4loot with a view 
 to roiHoour |iwilnioi|y tri as high a pitch tw {Nimihln of attnictivo 
 ex«oIl«nce aiul |iow«r. W« «re not iniH4u.il>|<, t<i tln^ cIhii-iiin or Uio 
 Higmty of n iikillful execution in the muMic of th« lAmi'n liouim 
 Hut <lo you nwaii to anwrt that there In no hoim f(»r our iMilmody 
 unlem we have rwx>urH« to inHtrntnontal ai<l ? 'llien let ino iKunt to 
 oongregationi. in the great SoottiMh ca|,it«lH, wlwre tlie iiinginff ia 
 euperb, and the whole awwmbly in o*. v«i*t, choir. What wmiW 
 *?!L j"'*^ «< ^ "» E«Iinbnrgh--what would it HugRoiitr— to hear it 
 * l?^j '*!"' ^^"** ■* *" argiimont of mightiest fur<^ that without 
 the aid and the fa«cinationii of inBtrumentiU miimc oiir iiHahno<)y 
 Vill dwindle into an inwpld <md inipnu-tioiJ.lo H«,n'i«s our Nonla 
 apintually suffer, and our coiignigatioiiH diiwolve like the iniat! 
 
 _ I hope, Sir, that the Synod will idirihk frdhi giving forth on 
 thi» subject a deliverance of a nature or in a shaiie to chill the 
 •ffeotions of so larae a portion of our peopla How greatly that 
 IB to be ^deprecated. A spirit of intestine dimffection snroedinir 
 like ft plague m the midst of us, wouhl tell more fatally on the 
 vital enetigies of the Church than even the crashing shock of » 
 dwruption. Llbemlity would »» driwl up ; our pastow be disabled; 
 tbeir flocks disorganized; their means of subHiHtenoe, already in 
 too many cases so scanty and prtcarious, be stiU further AbridiMd,_ 
 perhaps totally cut off; our Missionary Schemes and OoUegw 
 ifrould pme of atrophy, and the spirit of prayer for a bleiwing on 
 word find OTdmanoeg be depressed ^r nilenoed ! Are these only 
 '^^»\f^^rted fancies ? baiieless alanns f Is it my object only 
 * !S^*a^*^*® *PP*' y®" "^^^ spectral images of terror I Would ' 
 
 ;; to Uod, Sir, that I could persuade myself that there is nothing rf 
 •tern reaUty in the pictura The discontent with which the W 
 >Umon was regarded is not yet so far conciliated or aU«yed si / 
 *hftt '3^u can, without serious risk, advance by steps so hasty and/ 
 
 . Adventurous in the exciting work of innovation. There is a latent 
 disquietude arising out of an iiiipression, vague it may be, but 
 persMtenyUiat the articles on which that Vjthn was effected are 
 
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 not lifter all of such u quality iim to .protuct luiil t«> fiertietnntn free 
 from niHtilati<»nt.,tIio jliHtiuctivo iiriiiciploH 4»f the C'huivh of our 
 futhera. It iHii tiuio for inuih^nw — for heMtaiicy. Do not agitnte 
 thorn cooling oleinonts, or fun them into outhiixik. Looli at the 
 enthuHiiutm with which the Fitw Church of fckotlami haii thrown 
 • henelf into negotiatiouH for a Union witli a wnter Ixxl/ of Pre*- 
 Uyteriftnii; amlyettlie leading mlvocateH of that alliance, for aJI 
 the belief they entertain of itw legitimacy and of its rich atirantages 
 t« the Oiiuiickan4'to the counti-y, are in a miml not to prewt it^- 
 itre rawlved with a magnanimity tliat we are forced to admire, 
 mmI that we ought to emulate, to ftn-ego the whole of its anticipated 
 UeRHingH, to sacrifice tlieir own most cherished asjiimtions, rather 
 than wound or outrage convictions tliat, however they iftay lament 
 ikeiir existence, they know, nevei;^ele«s, to be seated itt a vury 
 tender sensibility — to be conscientioiis, genuine, sincere, 
 
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 / At the time of Dr. dial mei-s's death there appeured in the 
 Bdinhurgh Witttem an obituary notice of that great man ; the fol- 
 lowing extract seems to call for serious considemtion at a crisis like 
 this:-— "With gi-eatly more energy than any other man of tlte 
 body, he had also greatly more of the via inertias that withstands 
 the influence of a cuirent from without He fonned, in one 
 important phase of his character, a great iiAmovable anchor, that 
 moored the vessel of tlie Free Church right over the Disruption ; 
 and, now that he is gone, there must be sedulous watch kept, lest, 
 yielding to the insidious tendencies of the time, we drift aWay." 
 ThW are the words in whidh the Chuivh was admonislied to be 
 on her guard, now that her robust pilot was gone, against that 
 strong current of change and ^sensational novelty which constitute 
 M> marked, a feature of the restive spirit of the age in which we live. 
 
 Sir, I would i)our out my prayer for the peace of the Church- 
 that God would be gracious to us, and <)uell the agitation that 
 afflicts ns. We am called to do a^^gi-^it work — to lay the founda- 
 tions on this vast territory of the Christianity of future ages'; and 
 we cannot do it but in the power — the quiescence of fi-atemal unity. 
 OurChurch is feeble; it is the period of her infancy ; why shatter 
 . lier strength witli questions that "gender strife rather thui godly 
 •edifyiiigf V The sound of an iron tooj^ was not heard when Solo- 
 tton's builders were busy on the temple ; it rose amid silent and 
 liarmoDious activity— a dwelling phice on earth for the God <rf 
 Bnoa 
 
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 "AU wise and aobor iKsrsonH," nlwurvoHJUslMp Taylor, "do flml faolt. 
 wben the paalmotly which ia recominttiidoil I>y tiiie practice of Chrlal and 
 hiaapoatlee doea aehaihly paaa further iiitti art than into roligion, and terwrn 
 pleasure mors tha|i devotion ; when it rc^^tlcs frtim that native si^pli(^t]f 
 •nd gravity which served the aifeotiona and holy aBpiratioaa of «o nuutv- 
 agea of the Church; when it ia ao conducted that it al^ not be for ediiti^ 
 tion ; that ia, when it is ao maflo accurate aii^ curioua thati none can jol|i i«» 
 but muaiciana ; and they also are not ao redtalivc, they do not aing and 
 expreaa the worda ao plainly, that they .yf)h\\ hoar do underatand ; for by 
 this meana the greatest benefit and Use of ediiicationia loat" 
 
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