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e caused to improve by the adoption of several changes of procedure that are herewith recommended. 1. Educate the minister musically during his general and professional training, causing him not only to acquire a certain amount of technical musical ability, but attempting also to cultivate in him that intangible something which we call musical taste. A few seminaries--notably the Hartford Theological Seminary and the Boston University Department of Religious Education--are doing pioneer work along this line, but they are the exception rather than the rule, and the thing must be done by all if the desired result is to obtain in the future. 2. Encourage the organization of chorus choirs composed largely of those who belong to or attend the church and are therefore vitally interested in its work. 3. Select more churchly music, _i.e._, a type of music which when appropriately rendered will tend to bring about a mood of worship. This will often mean a simpler style of music; it may mean more _a cappella_ singing; and it undoubtedly implies music that is fundamentally _sincere_. That many of our modern sacred solos and anthems fail in this latter respect must be evident to any one who has given the matter any thought whatever. 4. Let the church make an attempt to secure as its musical director one who possesses a type of seriousness and high-mindedness that will make him sympathetic with what the church is trying to do, thus enabling him to minister to the people through music even as the priest or preacher does through words of consolation or inspiration. We admit that this sort of a man (who is at the same time unimpeachable in his musical authority) is often hard to find; but that the two elements are incompatible, and that such a type of choir director cannot be trained, we absolutely refuse to believe. If the church sufficiently recognizes the failure of music as now frequently administered, and makes a strong enough demand for leaders of a different type, they are bound to be forthcoming. [Sidenote: CORRELATING THE MUSIC WITH THE REST OF THE SERVICE] Having trained our minister from a musical standpoint, organized a chorus choir, selected appropriate music, and secured the right type of choir leader, let us now make a strenuous attem
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