Melodies of the New Jerusalem

We should do well if we added to our godly service more singing.  The world sings: the million have their song...

Now why should we, with the grand psalms of David, with the noble hymns of Cowper, of Milton, of Watts- why should not we sing as well as they?  Let us sing the songs of Zion: they are cheerful as the songs of Sodom any day.  Let us drown the howling nonsense of Gomorrah with the melodies of the New Jerusalem!

-Charles Haddon Spurgeon