"These old fashioned people would level our psalmody," &c.Music of Nature, p. 292.

Where such hymns and such discourses are admissible, the authors of them might take a part in conducting psalmody and in occupying the pulpit for preaching to a congregation.

It may happen, however, that by cultivating psalmody in our churches and chapels, considerable progress may be made.

On summer evenings Peter was frequently to be seen outside his inn discussing psalmody and other matters with Jacob Bunting, late a corporal in his majesty's army, a man who prided himself on his knowledge of the world, and found Peter's too easy fund of merriment occasionally irritating.

The old men who used to execute the psalmody, with the clerk at their head, had been superseded.

I was used to hear such psalmody in my early days in the parish church of Fettercairn, where we always attended during summer.

"Martin Luther, about the year 1517, first introduced metrical psalmody into the service of the church, which not only kept alive the enthusiasm of the reformers, but formed a rallying point for his followers.

In wildest transport round each maiden flies, The measure keeps to sacred psalmody, With music ravishing,sweet melody.

The brass band, including old grey-haired men who fifty years ago with strings and wood-wind led the psalmody at Chedworth Church, come too, and play inside the hall.

And all rejoicing sing a psalmody.

The warrior-king who conquered the enemies of Israel in a dark and desponding period; the sagacious statesman who gave unity to its various tribes, and formed them into a powerful monarchy; the matchless poet who bequeathed to all ages a lofty and beautiful psalmody; the saint, who with all his backslidings and inconsistencies was a man after God's own heart,is well worthy of our study.

Breviary students studying this commentary need little else to help them to admire, to understand and to use their psalmody in a prayerful manner.