---
title: 'Address on Church Music'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Lowell Mason'
date: 1826-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Hymnody and Psalmody'
- 'Public Worship'
scriptures:
- 'Exodus 15'
- 'Psalms 147'
- 'Acts 16'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/mason-1826-address-on-church-music
---

# Address on Church Music

1826 address arguing church music is a divinely‑instituted devotional art needing cultivation. Criticizes showy, untrained performance and urges reverent musical education.

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