Declaration of Religious Principles
For the
greater glory of God, and for the cause of worthy music in this
land, we being severally members of the
American Guild of Organists, do declare our mind and intention in
the things following:
We believe that the office of music in Divine Worship is a Sacred Oblation before the Most High.
We believe
that they who are set as Choir Directors and as Organists in the
House of God ought themselves
to be people of devout conduct, teaching the ways of earnestness
to the Choirs committed to their charge.
We believe
that the unity of purpose and fellowship of life between Clergy
and Choirs
should be everywhere established and maintained.
We believe
that at all times and in all places it is meet, and right, and
our bounden duty to work and
pray for the advancement of Divine Worship in the Holy gifts of
strength and nobleness; to the need that
God's House may be purged of its blemishes, that the minds of all
may be instructed, that the honor of that
House may be guarded in our time and in the time to come.
Wherefore
we do give ourselves with reverence and humility to these
endeavors,
offering up our works and our lives in the name of Him, without
Whom nothing is strong, nothing is holy.
Amen.