Music snobbery

I came across this amazing piece in the Oxford Companion to Music. It's best read out loud with a plum in your mouth!

"Church Music
2. The Question of Good Taste. There are those who maintain that the importance of this last great purpose [viz. to 'go into the highways and hedges and compel them to come in.'] justifies the use of any kind of music. To the musician this sounds very like the false doctrine of 'doing evil that good may come.'...
It is very difficult to argue with those who support the use of bad music to lead men into good ways, since usually they are, from some natural incapacity, or through lack of early musical environment, incapable of feeling the difference between good and bad in music, and, sometimes, even of realizing that 'bad' exists... Association with the 'bad' in any department of life has a 'cheapening' effect on the mind, whereas association with the 'good' raises it. Hence if two pieces of music, good and bad, have equally strong attractive qualities the ultimate end in view will be better attained by the use of the good...
And had such evangelistic leaders as General Booth and Messrs. Moody and Sankey enjoyed the advantage of possessing literary and musical taste they would have gained and held just as many ardent converts by means of wholesome, simple, popular song as they did by the simple reiteration of some elementary religious thought set to a 'catchy' rhythm."