Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-05-17

THE RICHMOND SACRED Music SoCI ETY.
give their second concert in the First Presbyte-
rian Church this evening. The enterta inment
will consist of choruses from the most eminent
composers, interspersed with quartetes, trios du.
cites and solos. The choruses will be SUSTAINED
by large number of voices, assisted by u full aud
efficient orchestra un Ter the leadership of prof
clients The effect produced by the choruses is
grand aud pleasing beyond conception No lover of
the beautiful and sublime in music, therefore,
should be absent to night. The Society will not
probably give another concert this season. as the
weather is becoming warm aud unsutea to en-,
Ieraoments of this kin The present. then
may be the last opportunity which will be aft n.
ded OF hearing the grand music produced by the
Society.
Eliza Cook, in her charming Journal, abiding
to the in luence exerted u Goa h, human heart
by music, beautifully and truthfu!ly says, "there
is a strange, unac ;ountable, and dream like
beauty in music, which can sublue the proudest
spirit. and, gliding into the hush of the heart,
will nestle there, sling its most troublous
throbbings, and filing it with the ca I'm, peaceful
memories of The far long ago. All tribes, ia nj,
times have owned thu spell, from the
time when Pan first taught the Thracan shep-
herd to carve his love-notes in the invsi-
Bile air, and ill the SUNNI. nights with soft,
best, sweetest flute music, down to the present
moment. 1t is the universal language of all, and
awakening strange pulsations even in the most
obduiate heart Most OF US have experienced
the luxury oftears, whea listening to an old bal
IF al
long career OF vice and crime was a length ban
ished from the country; aul who, while under
going his period of banishment amidst the wilds
and ju ngles "a distant land, heard, in the sum.
NOR eventde. sweet voice. singing in his own
language the very song which had Iulled him to
his infant slumber, when he knew crime by name.
and knew il only to abhor. 1t had been sung.
ton, by the cradle of an infant sister, little one.
who had died young, ald was now in Heavens
the mother, too, was no more. But the sono
he old song, had not lost its influence over him
yet, Back came trooping upon him the old me-
m 'ries which had so long slumbered down there
in the unconsumed depths of his heart; the mo-
Their and the father; the household gatherings
the old books; the old school houses tho time
worn church. half hidden by the old yew trees
where he had first heard the Bible read-all
came back upo him as if it were but Yesterday
aud, oyerpowerei by his feelings, he gave vent
to them IA food of tears. And then the oil
man grew calm, and his latter days were his
lest days; and when the term OF his Punishment
had expired he came back to his fathers land.
and there 10 that old village graveyard, amid
whose grassy hillocks he had first played and
gamboiled, and where the mother and her little
ones were sleeping he lay down his wearied
limbs, aud sank peacefully away in common
grave"
Since, then, it is the province of music to OK
ert such soothing aud beneficial effects upon the
obdurate heurt OF man--changng even the ma
lure of those deeply stepped ia vice and crime,
and leading them back to the paths of pleasant
noss aud peace, it becomes the duty Of every
good citize n TO aid in discriminating Knowledge
of this delightful Moral Agent. The Riehm ord
Sacred Music Society has for its object the in
-truction of the million it is. therefore, worthy
of all praise aud will receive countenance a.
support at tbs hands Of sbe yirtuous aud
good.