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What Shall We Do About the Organ?

by: McGarvey, J. W. (John William), 1826-1911 & Allen, Frank Gibbs, 1836-1887

Publication date: 2010

Usage: Attribution 3.0

Topics: mcgarvey, allen, instrumental music, a cappella, churches of christ, chistian churches, disciples of christ

"What shall we do about the organ?" by J. W. McGarvey and F. G. Allen, published by McQuiddy Printing Co. in Nashville, TN, 1903. (Originally published in Louisville, KY, by Guide Printing and Publishing, 1886.) J.W. (John William) McGarvey (1829-1911) was one of the leading ministers and religious educators of the American Restoration Movement. Frank Gibbs Allen (1836-1887) was best known as the founder of the Old Path Guide, a religious monthly. In this work McGarvey and Allen answer letters concerning the controversy within the Restoration Movement over the introduction of instrumental music into worship services. Read from an electronic version of the text provided with permission by the Center for Restoration Studies at Abilene Christian University.

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This recording is in the public domain. An online version of this text can be read at http://www.bible.acu.edu/crs/doc/mcal.htm. Special thanks to Douglas Foster, Director, and Carisse Berryhill, Special Collections Librarian, of the Center for Restoration Studies at Abilene Christian University, for their permission to record this text from their electronic version.