This is the second article in a series on the singing of Psalms in Christian worship. It compares ways of singing the psalms: those who chant the Psalms directly from the Bible and those who sing metrical paraphrases of the Psalms.

Tracing the singing of Psalms from the Reformation and the Church Order of Dordt, this article shows that the Secession of 1857 which led to the formation of the Christian Reformed Church was the result of a struggle for the worship of God through the songs He gave His church. It focused on a return to Psalm singing.