The Red Cloud chief., 1880-04-29

Yea. 40 N Of the incidents ais
ins out a TIE slcveniy and ignorant
usppsr n which - congregational
ensfnR's was managed, was 20 ludi-
crous thaa Il was impossible 20 resist
laughing. I remember being asked
enc fine Sunday morning 70 assist st q
village Sunday school The +" supefin-
sendenr'' was gardener. and the way
n which he read out Of DIR. Watts
Divine and Moral Songs'' for the
children 70 sing was very droil-ahe
separation Of 'sverses" Of four lines Into
couplets Of two. without reference TO
the context, making the greatest posi-
bic nonsense of some. One occurs To
me now, which made me smile aloud.
Faroy the following read gravcly. as
though it were . complete sentence:
Birls in sbefr NH. nests agree
And IL . sh8mefd si0hf!
But on the same day, when we attended
the service In the chapel, II was still
worse The old gardener having 70 read
out the lines:
God 10 His own interpreter.
And lie viii make Il plain.
read the first line:
God Il His own infS.xnpdey!
Sometimes even in the Established
Church. the ignorance Of the - clerk
gave rise TO amusing contretemps. i
remember IN old man who was clerk at
st. Mary's ut Leicester. forty years ago.
who alwas boggied at one word in a IA
vorite hymn Of the vicar. The hymn
was the weli-known e
We've no abiding city here
and one OF the verses commences thus:
We've no abiding city here.
This may distress the woridiings mind.
That word UorliiiRy was indeed a
pons asinorum for the poor old clerk,
and the congregation were all in a tit
ter when he came to il. ''rhis ma-ay
distress the Observation-Disclosures
-wor-ruldin' moind," was generally
about what he made of it. and the or
ganist, the clever Mrs. Wood, always
played the organ its very loidest at
that line, to drown the tittering of the
congregation. The greatest fiascoes,
however, arose from the selections OF
inappropriate tunes. One in which the
words .'And bow before the throne"
were rendered thus:
And b~ow-wow-wow. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
WOW,
And bow-wow-wow before the throne.
l have been looking through some
letters lately, and am able now to give
a few more specimens. There is n
hymn forget in what cOllection-in
which the line with Thy benediction
SEAL occurs. have a memorandum
that this hymn was sung at a chapel in
Cheshire. to the tune of Aaron, U.s."
and this is how the above line came in
the music:
With Thy benny
With Thy benny
With Thy benediction sea-
Another favorite une in those days was
called Job" which was made to do
duty for all sOrt' Of '.long meter
hymns. Two singular specimens Of its
inappropriateness are appended. The
line in one was, "Stir up this stupid
heart to pray" and this was the way it
was sung:
Stir up this stew
Stir up this stewpld heart, etc.
The other was" And love Thee better
than before which was sung
And love Thee bet
ana iDNe Incc pettef, tudu- etc.
There is a tune. Miles Lane"-in
which, when sung to its own hymn,
.Crown Him Lord Of ALL" the repeti-
ton of the words Grown Him" has n
very fine effect. Unfortunately ia the
days l am speaking of the people in
charge of the singing thought more of
the music they had to sing than of the
words. and the following three exam
pies show how "Miles' Lane" was
made ludicrous. In DIR. Watts collec-
ton the hymn 32 in the second book
concludes-"An see salvation nigh"
miles Lane made it thus
And see sal-see ssl-see salvation nigh.
The hymn 104, first book. same col
lection, has the lines
We would denle cur hearts no more,
l. No more pollute our hands.
The last line being sung to Miles
Lane became
No more poll-more poll-morc pollute our
hands.
The 10th hymn, second book of DR..
Watts, has
Gilds the whole scene with brighter rays.
And mure cxalts our Joys.
Miles Lane" translated the final
line into
And more eggs-more eggs-more exalt our
joys.
There is another tune called "Boyce,"
of which l will give an example from
No II hymn, in DR.. Rallies Liverpool
collection, and the line is "And learn
to kiss the rod" .BOyce" makes this
And learn to kiss
And learn to kiss
And learn In kiss tie md.