Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1885 — Then and Now. [ARTICLE]

Then and Now.

New Minister —No, sir; I don’t like -choirs. I want congregational singing, and you will oblige me by disbanding your choir before next Sabbath- I dislike to offend you, sir, but I feel stonglv on this subject. choirs have been used for years, and I supposed all opposition to them bad ceased in this denomination. New Minister —I believe, sir, in keeping close to first principles. There was no choir singing in thedays of the apostles. Organist —Of course not The. operas hadn’t been written then.—Philadelphia Call. \