SINGING TO THE LORD
By D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Bryntirion Press. 92 pages. £4.50
ISBN 1 84049 194 1
Vintage classics or old hat? An occasional observation in these four addresses on Ephesians 5.18-20 was antiquated even at the time. But the publishers evidently want their enduring principles to be rediscovered in the currently overheated world of Christian music. Many readers, though, might gladly exchange the ten pages of advertising for two giving the context and reasons for their present emergence.
But here is a warm book deserving a warm welcome. 'Psalms, hymns and spiritual songs' are carefully if tentatively distinguished, with the 'psalms only' party gently acknowledged. If the Doctor's conclusions are Scriptural, we should expect living writers as well as dead ones to provide our songs; the favourite stanza quoted here scarcely illustrates the point.
