Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-09-21
pO6'ER OF SACRED SONG.
SERMON AT THE DEDICATION OF The
ORGAN AT THE TABERNACLE.

ORGAN At THE TABERNACLE.
The Glorious Inheritance OF Church
PsaInlody the People Praise Thee.
o 6ind. Let All the People Praise Thee"
Affecting Instance Of Conversion by song.
BRooKLYN Sept. ~. The magnifi
cent organ of the new Brooklyn Taber
nacle was dedicated today The services
were veritable musical festivals While
the regular musical programme at the
Tabernacle Is always attractive. that OF
today was exceptionally beautiful the
congregational singing oiIertories and
interludes being rendered with marvel
ous volume and expression Dr. Tai
images sermon. which was appropriate
TO the occasion. was on the text, Gene
sis iv. 21. His brothers name was
Jubal; he was the father of all such AZ
handle the harp and organ. "
I.amech had two boys. the one a
herdsinan and the other a musician.
Jubal the younger son. was the first
organ builder lie started tile first
sound that rolled froin the wondrous
instrument which has had so much to
do with the worship Of the ages But
what Improvement has been nude I'm
der tile hands of organ builders such as
Bernhard, Sebastian Bach aih George
Hogarth and Joseph Booth and
Thomas Robjohn, clear on down to
George and Edward Jardine OF our
own day do not wonder that when
the first full organ. that we read OF as
given in 757 by an emperor of the east
TO king OF France sounded forth its
full grandeur woman fell into deliri
uin from which her reason was never
restored
The majesty OF a great organ skill
fully played Ii almost too much for
human endurance. but how much the
instrument has done In the re-enforce
ment OF divine service II will take al
time and all eternity to celebrate. Last
April when we dedicated this church tc
the service of Almighty God our organ
was not more than half done. II has
now come 80 near completion that thi:
morning preach sermon dedicatory
OF this mighty throne OF sacred sound.
1t greets the eye as we'll as the ear. Be-
hold this mountain of anthemsl This
forest OF hosannahs Its history Is pc
culiar
The late Mr. George Jardine recently
made tour of the organs OF Europe.
He gathered up In his portfolio an ac-
count of all the excellences of the re-
nowned instruments OF music on the
other side of the Atlantic and all the
new improvements, and brought bach
that portfolio TO America, declaring
that Brooklyn Tabernacle should have
the full advantage OF all he had OBJ
tanned. and although he did not live tc
carry out his idea, his son, Mr. Edward
Jardine, has introduced into this great
organ all those improvements and
grandeurs, and while you hear this or
gan you hear all that ls.notable In the
organs of Lucerne and Fribourg and
Haarlem and St. Paul and Westminster
abbey. and other great organs that
have enraptured the world.
Ia II are banked up more hannoniei
than can describe, and all for Go6
and the lighting OF the soul toward
him. Its four banks OF keys, It's one
hundred and ten stops and appliances,
its four thousand five hundred and ten
pipes, its chime OF thirty seven bells,
It's cathedral diapson and pedal double
diapson. It's song trumpet and night
horn and vox hunana, all. all, VIC ded
icate TO God and the soul II will,
believe. under the divine blessing lead
uncounted thousands into the king
dom It's wedding marches, It's thanks
giving anthems. It's requiems will sound
after all the voices that follow 1t to
day shall have sung their last song Tc
God the Father God the Son and
God the HoIy Ghost we dedicate 1t
wHKN THK MORNING STARS SANG TO.
aETHER
There has been much discussion as
10 where music WAS born Think that
at the beginning. when the morning
stars sang together, aud all the suns OF
God shouted for JOY that the earth
heard the echo The cloud on which
the angels stood 20 celebrate the crea
tion was the birthplace Of song. Imam
innate nature Is full OF Gods stringeC
and wind Instruments Silence itsel
perfect silence-ls only muslca
rest ln Gods great anthem Of worship
Wind among the leaves. insects hum
ming In the summer air, the rush o
billow upon beach. the ocean far ou
sounding It's everlasting psalm, the bob
ollnk on the edge OF tho forest, In,
quail visiting up from the grass, ar
music.
On Blackwell's island | heard com
Ing from a window OF the lunatl
asylum a very sweet song II was sun
by one who had lost her reason, and
have come 10 believe that even the dc
ranged and disordered elements Of ma
ture would make music 10 our ear,
we only had acuteness enough 10 lii
ten. suppose that even the sound
Ia nature that are diseordant and N
pulslve make harmony In Gods eal
You know that you may come so nsa
20 an orchestra that the sounds al
painful instead OF pleasurabie, and
think We stand 90 near devaStatin
storm and frightful whlrlwind We cal
not hear that which makes 10 God
ear and the ear OF the spirits above 4
music as complete AS il Is trelnendou
The day Of Judgment. which Will |