South End
Church of Christ

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Louisville, KY 40215

 


Miscellaneous Quotes

ON WEARING THE NAME LUTHERAN

“I ask that men make no reference to my name, and call themselves not Lutherans, but Christians. What is Luther? MY doctrine, I am sure, is not mine, nor have I been crucified for anyone. St. Paul, in 1 Corinthians I, would not allow Christians to call themselves Pauline or Petrine, but Christians. How then should I, poor, foul carcass that I am, come to have men give to the children of Christ a name derived from my worthless name? No, no, my dear friends; let us abolish all party names, and call ourselves Christians after Him whose doctrine we have.”

(Hugh Thomson Kerr, Ed., A Compendium of Luther's Theology, Philadelphia, The Westminster Press, 1943, p.135)

ON INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC

“Although Josephus tells of the wonderful effects produced in the Temple by the use on instruments, the first Christians were of too spiritual fibre to substitute lifeless instruments for or to use them to accompany the human voice.”

(Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. 10, p. 652)

ON INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC

“Music, as a science, I esteem and admire: but instruments of worship in the house of God I abominate and abhor"”

(Clarke Commentary, Vol. 4, p. 684)

ON INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC

“We might as well pray by machinery as praise by it”

(Charles Spurgeon, a famous Baptist preacher, Commentary on Psalm 42)

ON INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC

"Staunch old Baptists in former times would as soon have tolerated the Pope of Rome in their pulpits as an organ in their galleries”

(50 Years Among the Baptists, David Benedict, p. 283)

WEARING THE TITLE "REVEREND"

“The term Reverend, now in such common use among our people and all other parties, was generally very offensive to Baptists of the old school, and was seldom employed by them in common conversation, in letter inscriptions, or in any other way. Holy and reverend is his name, as a designation of the Divine Beings, was a passage often quoted by objectors to giving reverence to men. To the Deity alone, said they, reverence belongs”

(50 Years Among the Baptists, David Benedict, p. 286)

   
 

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