The holiness of the church service does no harm. One may consider her music as miserable as one will; it is not her intention to commend herself to men. Why should she who wants to be worthy to be a maid in the house of her Lord court mortal tastes when the Highest looks upon her lowliness and lets himself be moved thereby?
Does God care for the bulls and calves of our lips? He who is pleased with the voice of the ravens when they call out to him, and who can prepare the mouth of sucklings to be the herolds of his renown, prefers the sincerity of a suffocated sigh --of a held-back tear-- to the subtle righteousness of euphony and the suet of the choir.
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