Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1903 — A Dangerous Innovation. [ARTICLE]

A Dangerous Innovation.

Deucon Carter could remember the days when the minister lined out the hymn and the congregation sang It. Although he had long been too feeble to gp to church, his opinions still found their way to the people. “We Shall have some good organplaying this summer,” an unwary visitor remarked to the "deacon's daughter in the old man's hearing. “That teacher from Boston is going to play every Sunday while Annie Trumbull Is off taking a vacation.” The deacon raised his stick and his quavering voice at the same time. “You send for the minister to come here and see me, daughter Mary,” he said, as clearly as he could. “I won’t have such goings on! A musician playing on that organ! Let ’em go without till Annie Trumbull gets home again.”