There was a full attendance of the C.EM.S. on February 23 to hear Mr. Hurry's paper on '"'the Congregation and Church Music." The Paper was most cordially received and is well worth careful study.
The appeal to organists, clergy and congregations to take a broad view of the subject was well founded. No one has any right to impose private ideas on what should be, in the meaning of the preface to the book of Common most as public as the prayers themselves. There is a wealth of variety and abundant room for development the in English Church Music without any one doing violence to recognized forms.
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