The music in the Churches of Christ, Scientist, is not incidental. Our great Leader, Mrs. Eddy, provided for its use in our Sunday services and Wednesday testimony meetings. In the Church Manual she has given us an important article entitled "Music in the Church" which includes this statement: "The music in The Mother Church shall not be operatic, but of an appropriate religious character and of a recognized standard of musical excellence; it shall be played in a dignified and suitable manner" (Art. XIX, Sect. 1).
In her Message to The Mother Church for 1900 Mrs. Eddy devotes a whole paragraph on page 11 to the subject of music. The opening sentence admonishes, "Beloved brethren, have no discord over music," and, towards the end of the paragraph she writes: "Music is divine. Mind, not matter, makes music; and if the divine tone be lacking, the human tone has no melody for me." She closes the paragraph with a lovely verse from the poem, "The Lost Chord,"
It flooded the crimson twilight
Like the close of an angel's psalm,
And it lay on my fevered spirit
With a touch of infinite calm.
