[Magdalen] Was: Prayers ANSWERED: Now, Chant.

[Sibyl Smirl]

On 2/21/16 9:27 AM, Roger Stokes wrote:
> and there only in Anglicanism.  Charles Wesley certainly assumed members
> of his new churches would sing when he wrote all those hymns for them.

The "Wesleyans" were not making "new churches", they were making 
something like "Sunday Schools" or a "Pious Educational Foundation" to 
educate the (adults as well as children) in Christianity.  Of course, 
they included devotional practices, but the people were expected to get 
their Eucharist and worship from C of E, which was doing little or 
nothing to teach its parishioners theory (theology) and Church History, 
and teaching them to _study_ the Bible.  Singing is a major way of 
getting things grooved inside your head.

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Sibyl Smirl
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