Oral Praise of God

We use words of the lips when we speak to God, not for the purpose of making known our thoughts to One who knows thembetterthan we do ourselves, but to stir ourselves and ourhearers to reverence for God. We need to praise God with our lips,not for His sake, but for our own. In Psalm 62 it is written:“My mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips.”

And it is just and right that the voice of man should praise God, not alone in the spoken word, but also in song. The use of music in praising God is a means for stirring reverence for him and employing the feelings in his service; it is certainly suitable that, to such music, there should be set the words of a hymn or song or psalm.