Quote for the Day
"And you, my young friend, let this noble, wholesome, and
cheerful creation of God [music] be commended to you. By it you may escape
shameful desires and bad company. At the same time you may by this creation
accustom yourself to recognize and praise the Creator. Take special care to
shun perverted minds who prostitute this lovely gift of nature and the art with
their erotic rantings; and be quite assured that none but the devil goads them
on to defy their very nature, which would and should praise God its Maker with
this gift, so that these. . . purloin the gift of God and use it to worship the
foe of God, the enemy of nature and of this lovely art" (Quoting Martin Luther) Protestant Church Music, by Frederick Blume, New York: W.W. Norton
& Co., 1974, p. 10.
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