Here is a beautiful and encouraging poem for our fellow musicians by Frances Ridley Havergal, herself a musician and prolific hymn-writer.

In God’s great field of labour
All work is not the same.
He has a service for each one
Who loves His holy name.

And you, to whom the secrets
Of all sweet sounds are known,
Rise up! for He has called you
To a mission of your own.

And, rightly to fulfill it,
His grace can make you strong
Who to your charge has given
The MINISTRY OF SONG!