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The Boston Peace Jubilee.
Opening Day of the International IIu-
steal Festival.

Opening Day of the International Iu-
steal Festival.
COLISEUM, BosToN, June 17.-Boston in cele-
brating the 18th of June and the opening of the
worlds peace Jubilee is in its holiday attire.
All business is suspended, and the coliseum
building, which has sprung up almost as sud-
denly as domains gourd on Back bay, is the
centre of attraction. The building is by fifty
feet one way and sixty the other larger than the
jubilee building OF three years ago, which was
located about One-eighth of mile nearer the
city than is this one.
The choral societies, without whom the festi-
val would amount to nothing, were out in force,
hlling the two acres of area allotted to them,
The audience was smaller than had been ahtcipa-
ted, in fact not exceeding IL 900 BY O'Clock this
afternoon the entire chorus, orchestra and bands
were present, and the building, with its interior
finely decorated with flags, banners and stream
ers, presented a very attractive appearance,
Mr.. Geo. IL. Davis, chairman Of the executive
committee, presented Rev. Phillips Brooks, who
offered long and unheard prayer, invoking
the divine blessing upon this festival which
commentaries peace upon earth, Mayor Gas
ton made speech of welcome, not a word of
which could he heard. Gen Nath'l p. Banks
was then introduced, and delivered the inaugu.
raj Grafton, which was heard by very few
present.
He said Amid the complications of diplo-
matte and political controversy, the struggles
for bread, the aspirations for wealth, and CON
tests for power, which agitate and disturb the
world, we cOnsecrale this temple to the spirit of
universal harmony (appausel, and the occasion
to the promotion of peace and good will among
all nations and all people, tApplause.) No
race, no government, no interest of the human
family, that does not share our sympathy and
is not remembered In our duplication. Our
fraternal regard embraces all to whom "the sire
Oi1unIpgppf uOfDldS the IVOrld'a bor
volume, there TO read his transcript of himself"
| Honored by the patronage of the president of
| the republic, and of prominent executive, legisa
lative, and Judicial officers by the presence OF
the principal diplomatic representatives of Eu-
rope and America, BY ambassadors from one of
the great empires of the east so recently opened
to commerce, civilization, and Christianity, as
sisted by i!luStriouS artists of the highest
genius and renown from every land of music
and of song, and surrounded by so many thou
sands in whose name | speak, we may well re.
loce at this suspicious Inauguration of our en-
terprse, and welcome its results as an honora-
Bile contribution to the peace of nations and the
Brotherhood of man. tApplause.)
Welcome TO all who are with us; gratitude
| to those from whom and in whose name they
| come. To the august sovereigns and republican
| rulers OF Europe especially we lowe grateful
| thanks for the cooperation of their most es-
| teemed artists whose genius sheds lustre upon
| the brilliant courts and cities of the old world.
| WIN LHla uSluUCldiiC dostIlDly Vi tH6 new
world, for the promotion of art and the perpetu-
| alton of peace, every song Of praise that here
| "peaS from nations rather than from choirs,"
| will ascend freighted with good wishes for the
| prosperity, harmony and happiness of the hu-
| man family The day Is an honored anniyer-
| sary in American history. This day, 1775, our
fathers, on the neighboring hills that command
this beautiful and patriotic city stood for indie
pendence. (Appause) We do not associate
| with this event thoughts of contest or carnage
1t suggests no ideas of the rivalry Of enmity nor
| OF revenge. 1t marks an epoch when two great
| nations by different courses achieved unexam-
| pied success. The elder and greater Withdrew
| from the control of distant continent and con-
centrating on her ownIsh0reS her great resources
became the arbiter of Europe and the mistress
| of the seas. TIE younger her daughter, en-
| tered upon new and untried paths, gave unre-
| stricted liberty to its people, and by freedom
OF thought and unconquerahe energy attained
| in these generations position among nations
which older governments had reached after as
| many centuries. 1t was peaceful separation
| which gave them prosperity. So wise and sue
| cesSful an example ought 10 be observed and
| initiated perhaps, by other governments in our
| own day. These nations, being enemies, might
| destroy each other; but, united. their influence
| in any just cause would be resistlesS. OF one
origin, OF one race, one language, one clviliZa-
| ton, one religion, and apparently one destiny
| they owe IL to each other and to mankind TO
| avoid immateTial disSenSions and lead the world
| II possible, to a general and lasting peace. This
| anniversary has yet another memorable dis
uncti0n. 1t marks the ratification of the recent
| treaty between Great Britain and the United
| States; designed, among other less important
purposes, to give the world the first grand prac-
hcal illustration of peaceful international arbi-
tration as substitute for fratricidal and bloody
| war 1t is ilnmaterial it is utterly inconsequen-
| tial that this august international policy is yet
| uneXecuted. 1t was scarcely to be anticipated
that convention SO wise, so elevated,
and so novel, could at once CIR
cumVent and battle the traditions and spe-
| cous arts of diplomacy. 1t is not Impossible
| that its complete success will demand its sub
| mission TO the wiser, simpler and more direct
| negotiations of the people. That would be
| triumph OF itself. This anniversary marks not
| the termination, but the opening of the contest
| for American liberty. 1t is the commencement
| of great events that constitute the memorable
epochS of human history. 1t is thus with this
effort to substitute peaceful international arbi-
| tratiOn for fratricdal and bloody war. Suspended
| not inanmate; deferred, not defeated; this sub
| lime principle, upon which we predicate the
future peace of Christian nations, will not
perish. The great triumph, for which hui
| mainly has suffered, justice pleaded, phi
| losophy and Christianity suppcated, will yet be
| realized. 1t embraces ideas of which men might
well have died and nations have been sacrificed
in battle. Let us give thanks to God for his be-
| ginning, and mark with appropriate and fresh
| honors the hallOwed anniversary upon which it
occurs 1t would be unjust to consider this festi-
val as mere exhibition of startling artistic effects
| by unusual combination of voices and nstru-
| nentS. 1t has other and higher uses. We need
not scan too closely nor criticise harshy meth
| DDS or style. Every school has its master and
| its partisans. Familiarity Teconcilcs us in all
| pursuits of life to ideas at first deemed mad
| Missile. The music of one generation is in
| sufficient for another, and the harmones of the
iuture-if we could anticipate thcm-might be
| TO US incomprchensible and unsatisfa Glory.
| Great masters disregard received ideas, and
| seek the development of new thoughts by novel
methods We cannot ourselves fix the stand
ard OF genius; success alone does that; and sue
cess depends on fidelity 10 nature justice truth
| and beauty. There is no triumph without it.
The rulers of the world are subjects of this inn
| mutable and immaculate law. We come to
| attest the fact that there is nothing in animate
| or inanmate nature from which, with requisite
arts, genius may not distill the notes that con-
| stitute the grand harmOnes Of the soul; if from
the shouts of savages, repeated and varied with
unceaSng change Of incident and object the
harmonious and expressive languages of
the human race have been modulated and per-
lected, we may assume with religious confidence
that every sound in earth and in air has COM
mon chord-its own harmonic tread-tO which
all things in earth and heaven may be attuued
in ecstatic unison. There is nothing above or
below the capacious scores of this divine art.
In one of the majestic oratorios of Haydn,
whose inspired compositions were at first
ceiyed in England as the rhapsodies of mad
man. he inflated the appalling reverberations
caused by the fall of rocks from cavern to cav
ern in the mountain chasms of Derbyshire IL
is scarcely possible for us to discover by any
analysis in our power in what manner melody
and harmony impress and influence the human
heart. 1t is not left US to determine "by what
mysterious fabric OF mind the deep felt Joys and
harmony of sound result from airy mo ton"
To comprehend music it is not always requisite
that ii should be heard. Poets become blind,
musicians deaf Homer and Milton had inward
poetic visions of outward beauty which light
and sight alone never gave to man. Beethoven,
the greatest Of modern masters, unable from
defective hearing to conduct an opera, could
sketch a landscape never attempted in sounds
before as perfect as those Of Bierstadt, with life
aud beauty, color could not gve the hum of in
sects, songs Of birds, tinllling rills, and "mur
murs of the running brooks, in music sweeter
than their own" The grand harmonics Of the
last and greatest of his works never entered the
portals OF his ear; and impenetrabe deafness de-