[Tax-chick]

This would include songs that indicated the mental or emotional state of the singer, the nature of his personal relation with Jesus, patriotic hymns excluding Christians who were not citizens of the United States, hymns that presumed the singer had undergone a “salvation” experience, especially since many of them frankly indicated that before this experience the singer had lived a life of moral squalor, and after the Cleansing sin and unhappiness went away: “Life now is sweet and my joy is complete, for I’m Saved! Saved! Saved!”

It sounds like this author would pretty must junk the Book of Psalms, then, even if it came with elegant 4-part settings.

[Tax-chick]

“much”