I was attending a chapel service at Anderson University. The gathered congregation was singing “Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing”. When we reached the second verse “Here I raise my Ebenezer…” a tall young man with disgust in his voice said “who even knows what that means.” I made no comment but thought how sad it was that this young Christian did not know that biblical story. A more modern version of the hymn paraphrases the word, Ebnenzer, with hither to thy love has blest me.” It recalls the moment that Samuel set up to remember the victory God had given Israel. Ebenezer “Thus far the Lord has helped us.” It was an important memory that recognized God’s past and present help and anticipates his help in the future. With the song writer, Robert Robinson, I sing “Here I raise my Ebenezer, hither by thy help I’m come” whenever I think of God’s grace and help. The song embodies my faith and the music touches by deepest emotions. In the hymn I am connected with God’s help for Israel in the past and that help is carried forward to me in the present. How often for me the music of the church has confirmed my belief, enhanced my hope and deepened my love for God and for neighbor. It is this ability to touch my mind and my emotions that gives worship part of its power for me. I can and do worship to God in silence, but I enjoy the presence of God when my voice is raised in the songs of the faith. New songs and old, simple and complex, melody and harmony, they are all linked in my mind with the experience of the faith. So I say “sing on O people of God to the glory of God.”