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Annotation translation: [On the rear of the card is a printed text:] "We have learned from experience that most non-christian peoples like singing. It is true that their singing is often very rough and not beautiful. The missionaries are concerned right from the early days of their work in an area to really train God's gift of singing among non-christian and christian school pupils and to put this singing to work in the servcie of the congregations made up of heathen-christians ["Heidenchristengemeinden"]. The success of this strategy makes us very happy. In one christian congregation in India the young men and women began 30 years ago to perform Haydn's "Creation" under the leadership of their missionary. Missionaries have also encouraged instrumental music, and you find brass bands formed by the young men in all the mission fields, whose accompaniment to the hymns in the church services and mission festivals contributes to christian education. In this way the Mission has done great things for the implantation of christian music in the heathen-christian congregations. Annotation: [Gedruckter Text auf der Rückseite der Karte]: "Man hat die Erfahrung gemacht, dass die meisten heidnischen Völker gerne singen freilich ist ihr Gesang oft recht rauh und unschön. Die Missionare aber haben sich von Anfang an bemüht, diese Gottesgabe bei ihren heidnischen und christlichen Schülern recht auszubilden und in den Dienst Gottes und der Heidenchristengemeinden zu stellen. Der Erfolg war höchst erfreulich. In einer Christengemeinde Indiens haben schon vor 30 Jahren die Jünglinge und Jungfrauen unter der Leitung ihres Missionars Haydn's Schöpfung aufgeführt. Aber auch die Instrumentalmusik wurde fleissig gepflegt, und wir finden nun auf allen Missionsgebieten Posaunenchöre junger Männer, die durch Begleitung des Gemeindegesangs in den Gottesdiensten und auf den Missionsfesten viel zur Erbauung beitragen. So hat die Mission auch für die Verpflanzung christlicher Musik in die Heidenchristengemeinden bahnbrechend gewirkt." Note translation: I suspect this is a Leipzig Mission production. See QQ-30.124.0005. (PJ 06.2002).
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image
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print, letterpress halftone, colour (HD) postcard, 9.3 x 13.0 cm.
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