---
title: 'Review of Girardeau’s Instrumental Music in Public Worship'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Robert Lewis Dabney'
date: 1889-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Hymnody and Psalmody'
- 'Public Worship'
scriptures:
- 'Psalms 150'
- 'Hebrews 10'
- 'Acts 2'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/dabney-1889-review-of-girardeaus-instrumental-music-in-public-worship
---

# Review of Girardeau’s Instrumental Music in Public Worship

A 1889 Presbyterian Quarterly issue debating Presbyterianism and education and defending exclusive vocal worship. Includes critique of instrumental music and historical-theological arguments.

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