Jazz and Sacred Music
A Christian mother recently found no little difficulty in leading her ’teen-age girls to overcome the habit of singing jazz. It is what they heard over the neighbor’s radio, in school, on the street, everywhere. And in order to cure the habit there seemed to be need for something more than the negative command, “Don’t sing such songs, girls!” At length she hit upon a solution to the problem. When the girls burst into “Carolina moon, keep shining,” the mother would begin, very quietly and with apparent lack of purpose,
“He leadeth me! oh! blessed thought!
Oh, words with heavenly comfort fraught.”
And it was not long until the singing voices began to follow her.
The central message of the Gospel is well illustrated in this