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governments, upon laws upon literature,
upon whole generations. One inspiring
national air is worth thirty thousand men
as a standing army. There comes time
in the battle when one bugle is worth a
Thousand muskets. ! have TO tell you that
no nation, no church can afford to severely
economic in music.
THE MOTHERS SONG.
Many Of you are illustrations of what
sacred song can do. Through it you were
brought into the kingdom Of Jesus Christ.
You stood out against the argument and
the warning OF the pulpit, but when, in
the sweet words OF Isaac Watts or Charles
Wesley or John Newton or Toplady the
love OF Jesus was sung TO your soul,
then you surrendered as armed castle that
could not he taken by host lifts It's win
dow to listen to a harp's trilL There was
q Scotch soldier dying in New Orleans and
a Scotch minister came in to give him the
conMnintions OF the Gospel The man
tursAd over on his pillow and said Don't
talk TO me about religion" Then the
Scotch minister began TO sing familiar
hymn of Scotland that was composed
by David Dickinson. beginning with the
words;
Oh, mother, dear Jerusalem.
men snail come 10 tneef
He sang it to the tune OF DUNDEE" and
everybody in Scotland knows that; and us
he began to sing the dying soldier turned
over on his pillow and said to the minister,
Where did you learn that" why" re
piled the minister. my mother taught me
that" 80 did mine," said the dying
Scotch soldier; and the very foundation Of
bis heart was upturned. and then and there
he yielded himself to Christ. Oh, it has an
irresistible power Lutber's sermons have
been forgotten, but his Judgment Hymn"
sings on through the ages, and will keep
on singing until the blast of the archangel's
trumpet shall bring about that very day
which the hymn celebrates. | would to
God that those who hear me today would
take these songs of salvation rs messages
from heaven; for Just as certainly as the
birds brought food to Elijah by the brook
Cherith, so these winged harmonies God
sent, ara flying to your soul with the bread
of life. Open your mouths and take it, OH
hungry Elljahs
In addition to the inspiring music of ouI
own day we have d glorious inheritance of
church psalmody which has come down
fragrant with tie deyotions of other gen
eratlons--tunes no more worn out than
they were when our great grandfathers
climbed up or them from the church pew
TO gloryl Dear old souls, how they used
to sing When they were cheerful our
grandfathers and grandmothers used to
sing Colchester" When they were very
meditative then the board meeting house
rang with South Street" and "St. Ed
mond's.h We're they struck through with
great Tenderness they sang "Woodstock.'
Q hau in, si.f, Of ., H.
Of the church they sang Zion" Were
they overborne with the love and glory of
Christ they sang Ariel" Aud in those
days there were certain tunes married TO
certain hymns, and they have lived In
peace great while, these two old people,
and we have no right to divorce them
"What God hath joined together let no
man put asunder" But how hard hearted
we must be If al this sacred music of the
past and all the sacred music of the present
does not start us heayenward
1T CHARMS THE MELANCHOLY.
have also noticed the power of sacred
song to sooth perturbation You may have
come in here this morning with great
many worriments and anXieties, yet per
haps In the singing OF the first hymn you
lost all those worriments and anXieties
how he was sad and angry and how the
boy David came in and played the evil
spirit out Of him A Spanish king was
melancholy. The windows were all closed.
He sat In the darkness. Nothing could
bring him forth until Faraneli came and
discouTsed music for three or four days to
him. On the fourth day he looked up and
wept and reioiccd, and the windows We're
thrown open, and that which I'LL the splen
dors Of the court could not do the power of
song accomplished If you have anxieties
and worriments try this heavenly charm
upon them DO not sit down on tho bank
of the hymn, but plunge in, that the devil
of care may be brought out OF you.
II also arouses to action. A singing
church Is always a triumphant churchl
II congregation is silent during the eXer'
cise or partially silent, it is the silence Of
death. II, when the hymn is given out,
you hear the faint hum of here and there a
father and mother in Israel while the vast
majority are silent, that minister of Christ
who Is presiding needs to have n very
strong constitution If he does not get the
Chills. He needs not only the grace Of
God, but nerves like whalebone. 1t Is
amazing how some people who have voice
enough to discharge all their duties in the
world when they come into the house Of
God have no voice to discharge this duty.
4 really believe that If the church of Christ
could rise up and sing us 1t ought to sing,
that where we have a hundred souls
brought into the kingdom Of Christ there
would be a thousand.
But must now speak of some of the ob
,stacles in the way of the advancement OF
this sacred music; and the first Is that 1t
has been impressed into the service of
superstition am far from believing that
music ought always to be positively re
ligious Refined art has opened places
where music has been seCularizcd, and law
fully SO. The drawing room, the musical
club, the orchestra, the concert, by the
qualification Of pure taste, and the produc
tion OF harmless amusement and the i'm
provement OF talent have become great
forces in the advancement of our civili8a
ton. Music has MS much right to laugh In
Surrey gardens rs it has to pray in St,
Pau's In the kingdom of nature we have
the glad fling OF the wind rs well rs the
long meter psalm OF the thunder. But
while all this is so, every observer has no.
sticed that this art, which God intended for
the improvement OF the ear, and the voice,
sand the head, and the heart, has often been
impressed into the service of false relig.
ions False religions have depended more
upon the hymning OF their congregations
than upon the pulpit proclamation of their
.dogmaS rartini the musical composer,
one night that satan snatched
from his haI an instrument and played
upon it something very sweet-a dream
tthat has often been fulfilled in our day
the voice and the instruments that ought t.
have been devoted to Christ, captured from
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