HARD ROCK BANDS!         DFO774   12/2/78
--God Give Us Soft Loving Hands!

         1. FOLK BALLAD MUSIC IS MUCH MORE APPEALING THAN ALL THAT HARD ROCK STUFF. Rock bands just don't get through to me at all! As far as I'm concerned, it's just so much noise! It's nothing but Indian stomp-dance or African war-dance! I'm sorry, I guess I'm an old fogey, but I don't feel the Lord in that kind of stuff, just so much noise & confusion!
         2. It's violence! It's not even music!--Just violence! And that's what's affected the kids of today, this horrible noise you hear in discos!--Satanic, barbaric, savage, violent, African!--It's horrible horror noise!
         3. THE FAMILY WAS NOT BORN IN BIG-BAND SUCCESS & BIG-NAME HITS. It was born by a few humble little soloists with their guitars--Aaron, Faithie, Esther, Jeremiah & all of them. You talk about soul music!--They were tear-jerkers, wringing your heart, the cry of the youth of the day! The kids knew it was their music, & they wept with us, & they prayed with us, they cried with us. It was beautiful!--Not ugly demonic noise!
         4. I don't like it! If you want to know the kind of music I like, I like sweet music, romantic music, soft music, music to love by & live by.--Make love, not war!
         5. BUT THAT KIND OF HARD ROCK IS NOISE TO KILL BY!--Music to destroy by! It destroys your hearing, destroys your sense, almost destroys your spirit, makes you want to kill or destroy or go crazy!--Makes me almost want to kill them, anyway!
         6. Like the man who kept beating his head against the wall, & they asked him why he was doing it & he said, "It feels so good when I stop!" Well that's the way I feel about the hard rock! It's diabolical & hellish, not Christian & Heavenly! It's anti-Christ, not Christ-like!--It's of the Devil, not God!
         7. And it's had no good fruit! The poor kids who've gotten sucked into that muck have gone mad! It causes nervousness, mental disorders, deafness & insanity!--Today's war dances for tomorrow's madness, violence & destruction!
         8. Don't get sucked in by it! Fight it! Turn it off! Smash it!--And don't let it get you! "Better a morsel of bread & quietness therewith, than a brawling band in a wide house!"--To paraphrase Proverbs 17:1 & 25:24.--It's just not JESUS!


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