Lynn Thompson
speaker
669 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
Lynn Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Though I have neither a cultured voice nor a cultured ear, no man shall do my singing.
When the storms and the trees and the dragons are called on to praise the Lord, I feel that I must sing, for I know more about music than do the dragons.
Nothing can take the place of artistic music.
The dollar that I pay to hear Pipa or Nilsen sing is
Is far from being wasted, but when the hymn is read, and the angels of God stoop from their thrones to bear up on their wings the praise of the great congregation, let us not drive them away with our indifference.
I have preached in churches where fabulous sums of money were paid to performers, and the harmony was exquisite as any harmony that ever went up from an academy of music.
And yet, for all the purposes of devotion, I would prefer the hearty, outbreaking song of a backwards Methodist camp meeting.
When these fancy starving songs get up to the gate of heaven, how do you suppose they look standing beside the great doxologies of the glorified?
Let an operatic performance floating upward get many hours the start, and it shall be caught and passed by the shout of the sailors Bethel, or the Hosanna of the Sabbath school children.
I know a church where there was no singing except that done by the choir, save one old Christian man who
And they waited upon him by a committee, and asked him if he would not stop singing, for he disturbed the choir.
The day cometh when all the churches will rejoice in this department of service, rightly conducted, and when from all the great audiences of attentive worshippers will rise a multitudinous anthem.
O God, let all the people praise thee.
Again, when the city is redeemed,
The low haunts of vice and pollution will be extinguished.
Mr Etzler of England proposes by the forces of tide and wind and wave and sunshine to
To reconstruct the world
In a book of much genius, which rushed rapidly from edition to edition, he says that
Fellow men, I promise to show the means of creating a paradise within ten years, where everything desirable for human life may be had by every man in superabundance without labor and without pay, where the whole face of nature shall be changed into the most beautiful forms, and man may live in the most magnificent palaces.
In all imaginable refinements of luxury, and in the most delightful gardens, where he may accomplish without labour in one year more than hitherto could be done in thousands of years, may level continents sink valleys, create lakes, drain lakes, and swamps, and intersect the land everywhere with beautiful canals and roads for transporting heavy loads of many thousand tons.
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