The British Musical Biography

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Begg, Rev. James

[E] Begg, Rev. James, Scottish divine, born
1809, died at Edinburgh, 1883. Author of
" The Use of Organs and other instruments
of music in Christian worship indefensible,"
Glasgow, 1866. "Instrumental Music un-
warranted in the worship of God," Edinburgh,
N.D. His father, the Rev. James Begg, D.D.,
minister of New Monkland, Lanarkshire,
wrote a tract entitled " Treatise on the use of
organs and other instruments of music in the
worship of God," Glasgow, 1808, reprinted in
his son's tract of 1866.

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