SING
The Music Room
“Be filled with the Spirit; speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs.”
Ephesians 5:18-19 · KJV
The Music Room was added to the household in the fourth generation, after the Civil War, and has held the same upright oak piano ever since. Sunday afternoons are for singing. The hymn book on the bench was hand-copied by the fifth generation in warm brown ink and is still corrected each generation.
Music enters the house not as performance but as devotional practice. The visitor is invited to sit and listen, or to sing with the household. The instruments are cared for by hand.
The Hymn of the Day is set here every morning before breakfast and rings out through the kitchen wall.
“A hymn was sung here yesterday. A hymn will be sung here tomorrow. I could sing along.”
← Walk back to the front door