Review: Why we should use the Scottish Psalter by David Silversides

One of the talks given by Rev David Silversides from Loughbrickland Reformed Presbyterian to their monthly fellowship meeting:
Find it here

A very interesting talk, starting with the credibility of the Scottish Psalter, and a history of how it came to be. Mr Silversides then deals with how historically we can see that new revised Psalters have not strengthened the position of psalm singing in many denominations, but rather the opposite has happened in many examples. The Scottish Psalter was never intended to be continually under revision but rather correct and suitable for all, forever.

Well worth a listen, and a suitable warning against putting away the things of old which are far superior to what replaces them. As Mr Silversides says ~ if they didn’t like the old version, why should they like the new?

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Interesting!

http://stephenfry.com/blog/?p=39

Trying out this:

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https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1765

and

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Will tell ya how they go.

Arbroath Feb 2008

hello all,

The Arbroath Youth Weekend took place this last weekend. It was really good with a good crowd and excellent talks/lectures. They can be listened to at Bible Sermons, simply listen to the ones with Gavin Beers as the Preacher.

Fuller report on this for the magazine to be written soon. Any suggestions as to summaries for those talks would be appreciated.

James