Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-12-27

s.cf instruments among the deS-ices of mea,
seems TO me thus clearly demonstrated
and indisputable. | contemplate the fact
with lively and pleasurable emotions. The
use and purpose of these instruments are
grand and excellent. Il IS 10 deZp the soul
Of man 10 utter itself With the worlds
ancestors As with US, speech was not equal
to the task of expressing all the soul.
Lamech tried poetry, but something was
felt to be wanting. Jubal made things
without life, giving sound, our allies, and
deserves grateful and honorable mention
forever.
In any linguistic studies which my call
ing has led me to pursue, have always
noticed the inadequacy Of human speech
as related to the thoughts and passions of
man His soul Is always too copious for
the coinage of his lips. Frenchmen have
not unreasonabiy boasted that their Ian
guage can beyond others clearly state the
most complex of scientific Celebrations. |
But by the vehicle of any tongue convey
ing the souls workings, how small q por-
tion IS known of them How often we
find ourselves dealing with the U1iutterlbls'
And when the speech Just equals the |
thought, We feel all to be stale, fat and /
Improbable 1t i when we yet a glimpse /
of something behind the speech, looming
gigantically through the mist. which it Is
not possible for the man TO utter, great as
his speaking may be, that We are most
overpowered with the might and majesty
Of conviction. Who has not, in our social
meetings been most deeply stirred by what
some one did not saV2 Who has not felt
within. which he would give
the world to utter, yet could not
At this point Of sore need comes Jubal's
ministry. Without saying here how much
be and his sons have done for the Joy and
OF their fellows, 1t Is well
to note how they have helped out pious
1evoti0ns The utmost voice Of Miriam
and her company was too faint to tell tleir
yladDess over Egypt dark sea. Sound
the loud timbrel,' was their natural call /
for help to praise Jehovah. 50 the harp /,
1t David Is embslmed among the sweetest Il
and most sacred Of our religious antiqui-
hes And OF the Zen Of the Saints, the
1ity Of God, it is prophesied that as well I
the singers as the players upon instru- Il
nents shall be there = beautiful phrase I
low carved on the tomb Oh one of our +
Christian musicians, indicating that even !
Il the enlargement AMI c0usummatiOn Of I
he blest, utterance By speech will still fall ,
hort of the emotion Of the heart. Time {
would fail me 10 aLIude TO a tenth of the 5
# the passage where the Sacred Record :
els Of the aid which everything that hath {
,reath or vibration of air, yields TO the I
itual of pr3yer and praise !;
Then Why object to JubaIs art as a j
.eip IN worship Who is sufficient 10 tell
N that he feels when be Is before his God r
With the multitude that keep holy day 2? | =
Why not let the voice OF the organ and OF i
aiming instruments help him Not re- I
lace him but help him. have known 7
society TO spend many hundreds on the e
elusion Of ireseo, that the eye might Il
ind complace1t satisfaction in the sancu- r
ry, set refuse to admit 50 natural an ally / y
o their service as the voiceful organ, ;
ragrant from the associations o. centu- ?
les. Of all time. with the sacred songs of n
he house Of the Lord Ia
Such was Iubalz work. Relief for the !
ver-fuil soul was q sorer need than the n
tiiities Of iron and brass. The spiritual :
tands in the record. a earlier, more i'm n
ortuuate. and more authoritative than the
lltertGf. +