Hymns and Her
By Abigail Van Buren

* 1979 by Chicago Tribune N.Y. News Bynd. Inc.

DEAR ABBY: A reader in St. Augustine, Fla., said he quit
going to church because the organist played too loudly.

ell, I've been an organist since 1934, and the problem is
probably not the organist, but the organ. Over the yeara,
churches replace worn-out organs with rebuilt theater
organs or parts of several organs, and the resulting sounds
are disastrous! .

The church is the only corporate body I know of in which
each member is an expert concerning ‘what should and
should not be played for the service. It is also the only
corporate body which pays its most qualified employees, i.e.,
the minister and the organist, salaries which bear no rela-
‘tionship to the cost in time and money spent to acquire pro-
fessional status.

To all critics who think the organ music is too loud in‘
church, I say the music in the service should run the gamut
of soft to loud, depending on the occasion. Too many Chris-
tians today declare their faith sotto voce instead of for-.
tissimo, and expect their organist to do likewise. I play for
the joy of it, not forthe pay, and God knows I sometimes pull

-out all the stops. Hallelujah and Amen! , .
: LOUISE M. CHILDS IN S§.F.

DEAR LOUISE. Let’s hear a slightly different tune from
another reader: ‘

DEAR ABBY: This is for the St. Augustine reader who
quit attending church because of the organ music: I, too,
had the same problem, but I asked Gad to show me the way,
and He pointed me toward the Church of Christ.

The Church of Christ doesn’t believe in instrumental
music, and believe me, it is heavenly to go to church and not
have to hear all that loud instrumental music, For true
salvation in a quiet and spiritual atmosphere, try the Church
of Christ. . .

REBECCA

‘DEAR ABBY: I'll bet you're bombarded by nurses after
advising FRUSTRATED, who wanted sex with her husband

’-in the hospital,-to ask the physician to write an “order” to

that effect. You compared it to “conjugal visits such as

‘Abby, we nurses are held responsible for everything that

‘happens to, with, for, on and around every patient in our

care. can just see the patient's chart: “Patient's door closed
for two hours. Patient preaumed to be alive.” The floodgates
for lawsuits would be wide open.
Patients who are well enough to engage in sex could ask
their doctors for a pass to leave the hospital for a specific
eriod of time. OF course the patient would have to sign a
orm, releasing the physician, the hospital and its employees
of all responsibility for anything that occurs during the pa-

’ tient's absence from the hospital.

Thope you back up on this one, Abby.
. CALIF. NURSE

DEAR NURSE: Consider me backed up.
DEAR ABBY: I found’a clipping on my dresser this morn-

* ing. It was your column with the'letter from the man whose

wife undreased in the closet. As you can probably guess, I
am one of those wives.

After a dozen pregnancies, not too many wives have the
kind of figure they want to parade around the bedroom nude
to show off. I can go to bed alone and wake up pregnant.

OUT OF SHAPE IN CLEVELAND

Getting married? Whether you want « formal church
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Abby's new booklet, “How to Have a Lovely Wedding.”
Send 61 and « long, stamped (28 cents) self-addressed
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