“[The Psalter] gives us the completest view of God which we, in our present limitations, are capable of receiving. “Canst thou by searching find out God?” We can only know Him as He reveals Himself. Herein lies the weakness of an uninspired hymnology; it cannot give us a complete view of God.”

THE IDEA OF WORSHIP By The Rev. John M. Ross, Riverside, Cal. “I HAVE seen Thee,” says Lord Bacon, “in Thy works, I have sought Thee in Thy providences, but I have found Thee in Thy temples.” In His worship men come close to God. The offering- of spiritual service to God in the celebration [...]

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“Wherefore when we have sought all round, searching here and there, we shall find no songs better and more suitable for this end than the Psalms of David which the Holy Spirit dictated and gave to him. And therefore when we sing them, we are as certain that God has put words into our mouths as if He Himself sang within us to exalt His glory.”

Calvin’s preface to the The Genevan Psalter first appeared in the edition in 1543, and is found in all subsequent issues. “To all Christians, lovers of the Word of God, greeting. “As it is a thing enjoined in Christianity, and amongst the most necessary, that every believer, in his own place, should observe and maintain the [...]

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Every true Christian…must speak the praises of his Lord. But he is there met by a difficulty. His words fail him. His words cannot put into expression all, or the half, of what is in his heart to say to God. His thoughts are too big for utterance. He is conscious of the need of divine aid to speak in sufficient and right terms the great themes of his worship.”

A Selection from THE PSALMS IN WORSHIP, edited by John McNaugher, D. D., LL. D., 1907 Chapter 1, THE IDEA OF WORSHIP By The Rev. W. H. McMillan, D. D., LL. D., Allegheny, Pa. WORSHIP is right conceptions of the character and works of God suitably expressed. It is seeing Him, and expressing our thoughts [...]

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“One obvious effect of psalm-singing was that Reformed worshipers had the psalms well planted in their minds and hearts.”

“One obvious effect of psalm-singing was that Reformed worshipers had the psalms well planted in their minds and hearts. If we should hide God’s Word in our hearts that we might not sin against him (Ps. 119:11), singing the Word is one of the best ways to do that. Early Reformed leaders did not so [...]

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“Christianity has no new principle of praise worship to offer…It has nothing to add to the character of God, nothing to tell of His relation to men which had not already been uttered by the Holy Ghost through the men whom He had inspired of old.”

“There has been no change in the basic idea of praise. The eternal God remains the same. He is ‘the Father of lights, with Whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.’ Evangelical Christians agree in the belief that the Canon of revelation is closed. God has accomplished His purpose with men in revelation. There [...]

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