I laughed and laughed

[Greg Newell]

Hope you like this as much as I did.

>AND IT CAME TO PASS,
>when Paul was at Corinth, he and certain disciples came upon a mob that 
>was stoning an organist. 2 And Paul said unto them, "What then hath he 
>done unto thee that his head should be bruised?" 3 And the people cried 
>with one voice, "He hath played too loud. 4 Yea, in the singing of psalms, 
>he maketh our heads to ring as if they were beaten with hammers. 5 Behold, 
>he sitteth up high in the loft, and mighty are the pipes and mighty is the 
>noise thereof, and though there be few of us below, he nonetheless playeth 
>with all the stops, the Assyrian trumpet stop and the stop of the ram's 
>horn and the stop that soundeth like the sawing of stone, and we cannot 
>hear the words that do come out of our own mouths. 6 He always tosseth in 
>variations that confuse us mightily and he playeth loud and discordantly 
>and always in militant tempo, so that we have not time to breathe as we 
>sing. 7 Lo, he is a plague upon the faith and should be chastised." 8 
>Paul, hearing this, had himself picked up a small stone, and was about to 
>cast it, but he set it down, and bade the organist come forward. 9 He was 
>a narrow man, pale of complexion, dry, flaking, thin of hair. 10 And Paul 
>said unto him, "Why hast thou so abused thy brethren?" 11 And the organist 
>replied, I could not hear them singing from where I sat, and therefore 
>played the louder so as to encourage them." 12 And Paul turned around to 
>the mob and said loudly, "Let him who has never played an organ cast the 
>first stone." 13 And they cast stones for a while until their arms were 
>tired and Paul bade the organist repent and he did. 14 And Paul said unto 
>him, "Thou shalt take up the flute and play it for thirty days, to cleanse 
>thy spirit," and afterwards they returned to Corinth and sang psalms 
>unaccompanied and then had coffee and were refreshed in the faith.



Greg Newell
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