Crossword-Solution: PSALTERY 8 letters, 11 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

And he goes on, now reading: “‘Thou shalt meet a company of singers coming down from the little old church on the hill, with a psaltery, and a tabret, and a pipe, and a harp, and they shall sing.’” Music is one of Conwell’s strongest aids.

According to the memorable saying of Themistocles, One man can play upon a psaltery or harp, and another can by political skill and ingenuity convert a town of small account, weak and insignificant, into a city noble, magnificent and great.

Fathers of the Church (we would say), pastors of the Church, pious laics of the Church: you are taking from its walls the panoply of Aquinas--take also from its walls the psaltery of Alighieri.

For her I’ll proudlier speak:—how could it be That I should praise the gilding on the psaltery? ’Tis not for her to hold that prize a prize, Or praise much praise, though proudest in its wise, To which even hopes of merely women rise.

Now, the magnificent Ocean, as I said, unbannering A voice of joy, a voice of peace, did never stint to sing, Most like in Sion’s temples to a psaltery psaltering, And to creation’s beauty reared the great lauds of his song.