Much of the music used in our Church Service, we believe to have been inspirationally received by members so gifted. Eldress Dorothy Durgin, who was especially adept in this gift, kept a slate by her bed, upon which she wrote the spiritual messages which came to her in the night or early morning hours. She would then pass the words to the one for whom she thought the message was intended, saying “I thought of you when these words came to me”.
Some of these messages were accompanied by melody, others were set to music at a later date. And even today many of these songs remain the most loved ones in our Canterbury Hymnal. One of these, an especial favorite, reads as follows:
Angels call me, call me higher
To a realm of purer thought;
Call me to the fountain nigher,
Where the gems of Truth are wrought.
Call me here to love and worship,
Here to serve and learn God’s way.
Rise, my soul, renewed, responsive,
Meet the Christ that calls today.