“So we must beware of the false dilemma. It would be far better to sing five intelligible words (accompanied with three chords) that ten thousand unintelligible Latin or German words borne along by glorious cantatas. It would be better to sing a Scripture chorus to a humming guitar than to sin an old psalm in common meter in such a way that the psalm-singing was hard to distinguish from the snoring. But this is not the only choice we have. What is better, to sing five glorious words or five hundred glorious words? What is better, three good chords, or seventeen rich chords?” (A Primer on Worship and Reformation, p. 63).
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