If you only knew, dear hesitating friends, what strength and gladness the Master gives when we loyally 'sing forth the honour of His Name,' you would not forego it! Oh, if you only knew the difficulties it saves! For when you sing 'always and only for your King,' you will not get much entangled by the King's enemies, Singing an out-and-out sacred song often clears one's path at a stroke as to many other things. If you only knew the rewards He gives--very often then and there; the recognition that you are one of the King's friends by some lonely and timid one; the openings which you quite naturally gain of speaking a word for Jesus to hearts which, without the song, would never have given you the chance of the word! If you only knew the joy of believing that His sure promise, 'My Word shall not return unto Me void,' will be fulfilled as you _sing_ that word for Him! If you only tasted the solemn happiness of knowing that you have indeed a royal audience, that the King Himself is listening as you sing! If you only knew--and why should you not know? Shall not the time past of your life suffice you for the miserable, double-hearted, calculating service? Let Him have the _whole_ use of your voice at any cost, and see if He does not put many a totally unexpected new song into your mouth! I am not writing all this to great and finished singers, but to everybody who can sing at all. Those who think they have only a very small talent, are often most tempted not to trade with it for their Lord. Whether you have much or little natural voice, there is reason for its cultivation and room for its use. Place it at your Lord's disposal, and He will show you how to make the most of it for Him; for not seldom His multiplying power is brought to bear on a consecrated voice. A puzzled singing master, very famous in his profession, said to one who tried to sing for Jesus, 'Well, you have not much voice; but, mark my words, you will always beat anybody with four times your voice!' He was right, though he did not in the least know why. A great many so-called 'sacred songs' are so plaintive and pathetic that they help to give a gloomy idea of religion. Now _don't_ sing these; come out boldly, and sing definitely and unmistakeably for your King, and of your King, and to your King. You will soon find, and even outsiders will have to own, that it is a _good_ thing thus to show forth His loving-kindness and His faithfulness (see Ps. xcii. 1-3).