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# Sing a new song
- URL: https://www.dashhouse.com/200383sing-a-new-song-html/
- Published: 2003-08-03T02:10:09.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-15T15:43:44.000Z
- Author: Darryl Dash
- Tags: Blog, Uncategorized, #DashHouseCom, #wp

Actual letters of complaint received when new songs were introduced at church:

> “What’s wrong with the inspiring hymns with which we grew up? When I go to church, it is to worship God, not to be distracted with learning a new hymn. Last Sunday’s was particularly unnerving. While the text was good, the tune was unsingable and the new harmonies were quite discordant.” (*What a Friend We Have in Jesus* – from an 1890 letter to a minister) “Was it the organist’s idea or yours that our peaceful worship service was shattered by that new hymn last Sunday? The music was sacrilegious; something one would expect to hear in a den of iniquity, not a church! Don’t expect me even to attempt to sing it next time!” (*I Love To Tell The Story* – written in 1874) “Pastor, I am not music scholar, but I feel I know appropriate church music when I hear it. Last Sunday’s new hymn, if you call it that, sounded like a sentimental love ballad one might expect to hear crooned in a saloon. If you persist in exposing us to rubbish like this in God’s house, don’t be surprised if many of the faithful look for a new place to worship. The hymns we grew up with are all we need.” (*Just As I Am* – letter dated 1865)