What Does Christmas Music Really Teach?

The Power of Christmas Music

● A Christmas speech in 1954 by preacher Robert T.

Taking a dim view of the Christmas customs, cleric Schleiter said: “Running low on money, friend?

Yes, as in the West, the Christmas season has become one of the best ways for manufacturers, wholesalers, and merchants to make money.

Christmas decorations are prominently displayed on storefronts.

For instance, in many lands classwork during December incorporates Christmas music or art.

Popular Christmas music and many Christmas customs have little to do with Jesus Christ.

What is this spirit of Christmas?

Is it the choral concerts and organ music and the tinkling of noisy bells?

During the time of Christendom’s Christmas festival they put on colorful pageants about Joseph and Mary, the babe Jesus and the shepherds coming to see him.

Joyful music is arranged and nearly the entire congregation will attend this service.

This is followed by food, drinks, music, and dancing.

On the 24th, Nochebuena (Christmas Eve) is celebrated, and families make an effort to be together for a special dinner.

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There has been some impressive music written to accompany these words, and this can usually be heard around the time of Christmas.

22, 23. How has a firm stand for pure worship at times been rewarded?

²² Your companions at school may be puzzled because you make issues of so many things: You refuse to go along with birthday and Halloween parties, with Christmas and other Babylonian celebrations, and with saluting the flag and singing patriotic songs.

So he brought along the songbook “Singing and Accompanying Yourselves with Music in Your Hearts,” and pointed to song No. 109, “Here I Am!

But is it not also generally true that, whether claiming to be Christian or otherwise, the emphasis is on routine and formalism, varying only for special occasions and religious seasons, as at Christmas and Easter?

Everything is designed to that end, including the building and the music and the vestments, with often a certain mysticism added, all together creating an atmosphere of exaltation and serenity.

Christmas music and decorations and those associated with Easter may appeal to one’s emotions.