Evolution of Defense for Instrumental Music

By Ron Halbrook During the first half of the 1800’s, the work of restoring New Testament Christianity in America grew and prospered. But in the decades following the War Between the States, the ship of Zion floundered on, the sandbar of apostasy. The rise of liberal attitudes toward Bible authority resulted in an effort to centralize …

Tributes To B.G. Hope (B.G. Hope 1903-1980) B. G. Hope A Servant

By Fred E. Pollock Life on this earth ended for brother B.G. Hope on March 8. The funeral was conducted on March 10 in Glasgow, Kentucky, where he and sister Hope had lived since 1976. Robert Welch, Earl Robertson, Roy Cogdill and John Gardner combined their efforts in Scripture reading, prayers and words of edification and …

Instruments Of Music In Heaven

By Jon Quinn In the quest to discover some inkling of Biblical authority for the employment of musical instruments in the worship of the Lord’s church, proponents have searched high and low. Finding no scriptural authority for such in this age and realm, their search takes them beyond the boundaries of this earth to that place …