The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-03-15
. BE JUST AND FEAR NOT,
R RICHMOND.

dear, it is pastoral. You might
have known that from aWa-ha gee!'
You have had your taste ruined by
attending the Brooklyn Tabernacle
The choir repeated the last line of
the hymn four times Then the
prima donna leaped on the first
line, and slipped and fell on the
second, and that broke out and let
her through ON the third. The
other voices came in to pick her
up, and got into grand wrangle,
and the bass and the soprano had
it for about ten seconds; but the
sopranaibeat {women always do)
and the bass rolled down into the
cellar, and the soprano went up In
to the garret, but the latter kept
on squalling as though the bass in
leaving her, wickedly tore out all
her black hair. 8 es sasEssf
Now / admit that we cannot all
have such things in our churches
It costs like sixty. In the church
Of the Holy BaLkak it costs 800 to
have sung that communion piece:
Eye wretched hungry, starving
poor!'
But let US come as near to it as
we can. The tune s1Pisgah" has
been standing long enough on
sJordon's stormy banks. Let it
pass over and get out Of the wet
weather. Goodby, 'sAntioch, "Har-
well, and ssBoylston," Bood-by till
we meet in Glory.
But If the prescriptions of new
tunes does not end congregational
singing, I have another suggestion.
Get an irreigious choir, and put
them in q high balcony back Of the
congregation. / know choirs who
are made up chiefly of religious
people; or those, at least, respect
full for sacred things. That will
never do, if you want to kill the
music.
The theatrical troupe are not
busy elsewhere on the Sabbath, and
You can get them at half price to
sing the praises of the Lo1d. Meet
them in the green room at the close
| of the sBlack Crook and secure
them. They will come to church
with opera glasses, which will bring
| the minister so near to them that
they can, from their high perch,
look clear down his throat, and see
his sermon before it is delivered.
They will make excellent poetry on
Deacon Goodsoul as he carries
around the missionary box. They
will write dear little notes to Con
zoldo, asking him how his cold is
and how he likes gum drops. With.
out interfering with the worship
below, they can discuss the com
parative fashionableness of the
Basque and the ssPolonaise," and
the one lady vowing she thinks
the first style is sshorrid' and the
other saying she would rather die
than be seen in the latter-all thi,
whilst the chorister is gone during
the sermon to refresh himself will
mint julip, fastening back in tim,
I to sing the last hymn. How mucl
like Heaven it will be when, at The
close of a solemn service, we ar,
favored with matches from Verer,
! ! ssTrovator, Meybeer's ssHuguenots,
and Bellini's ssSomnambula" from
such artists as
Prima Donna Soprano,
fl Mademoiselle Sqrnntelle,
|, From Grand Opera House, Paris
Signor Bombastani
II Basso Buffo,
From the Royal italian Opera,
First Baritone,
Of His Majesty 3 Theatre, Berlin.
, If after three months of takin,
{ these two prescriptions the congre
a gationd singing is not thorough,
{ dead, send me letter directed t,
r my name, with the title of o. r. n
. (Old Fogy in Music J, and viii o1
{ receipt thereof, write another pre-
J, scription, which I am sure will XII
/ it as dead as q door-nail, and tina