Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-09-21
THE ORGAN DEDICATION.
THE MUSIC IN DR.. TALMAGE's TABER-
NAcLE SUGGESTS A LESSON.

Wonderful Compass of the Human Voice.
gin and Development Of MusIo-POwer
of Sacred song-Holy Art.
BROOKLYN. Sept 2O.-The magnificent
organ Of the new Brooklyn Tabernacle was
dedicated today The services were verita.
BILE musical festivals. While the regular
musical programme ut the tabernacle is
always attractive, that Of today was excep
tionally beautiful, the congregational sing
ing, ofFertories and interludes being rem
dered with marvellous volume and express
sion. DIR. Talmage's sermon. which was
appropriate to the occasion, was on the
text, Genesis Nv, 81, "His brothers name
was Jubal; he was the father of all such
rs handle the harp and organ"
Lamech had two boys, the one herds
man and the other a musician. Jubal, the
younger son, was the first organ builder
He started the first sound that rolled from
the wondrous instrument which has had
so much to do with the worship of the
ages. But what improvement has been
made under the hands of organ builders
such as Bernhard, Sebastian Bach and
George Hogarth and Joseph Booth and
Thomas Robjohn, clear down to George
and Edward Jardine Of our own day.
do not wonder that when the first full or.
gan that we read Of as given In 757 by an
emperor of the east to king of France
sounded forth its full grandeur, q woman
fell into delirium from which her reason
was never restored.
The majesty Of a great organ skillfully
played Is almost too much for human en-
durance, hut how much the instrument
has done in the reinforcement of divine
service it will take all time and all eternity
celebrate. Last April, when we dedi-
lated this church to the service of Al
mighty God, our organ was not more than
half done. IL has now come so near com
pletion that this morning preach a ser
mon dedicatory Of this mighty throne of
sacred sound. 1t greets the eye as well as
the ear. Benold this mountain of an
themsl This forest Of hosannahsl Its
history is peculiar
HISTORY OF THIS ORGAN.
The late Mr.. George Jardine recently
made tour Of the organs of Europe He
gathered up in his portfolio an account Of
all the excellences of the renowned instru
ments of music on the other side of the At,
lantic ard all the new improvements, and
brought back that portfolio to America de
claring that Brooklyn Tabernacle should
have the full advantage of all he had OBJ
tanned, and although he did not live to
carry out his idea, his son, Mr. Edward
Jardine, has introduced into this great or
gan all those improvements and grandeurs,
and while you hear this organ you hear all
hot 10 nfut In tha -
and Fribourg and HARLEM and St. Paul
and Westminster abbey and other great
organs that have enraptured the world.
In it are banked up more harmonies than
can describe, and all for God and the
lighting of the soul toward him. Its four
banks of keys. its one hundred and ten
stops and appliances, its four thousand five
hundred and ten pipes, its chime Of thirty
seven bells, It's cathedral diapason and
pedal double diapason, its song trumpet
and night horn and vox humana, all, all.
we dedicate to God and the soul. It will,
! believe, under the divine blessing, lead
uncounted thousands into the kingdom
Its wedding marches, its thanksgiving
anthems, its requiems will sound after all
the voices that follow it today shall have
sung their last song. To God the Father,
God the Son and God the Holy Ghost we
dedicate it'll
There has been much discussion as to
where music was born. l think that at
the beginning, when the morning stars
sang together, and all the suns of God
shouted for JOY, that the earth heard the
echo. The cloud on which the angels stood
to celebrate the creation was the birthplace
of song. Inanimate nature Is full of Gods
stringed and wind Instruments Silence
itself-perfect silence-is only a musical
rest in Gods great anthem of worship
Wind among the leaves, insects humming
in the summer air, the rush of billow upon
beach, the ocean far out sounding its ever
lasting psalm, the bobolink on the edge of
the forest, the quail whistling up from the
grass are music.
On Blackwell's island | heard, coming
from window of the lunatic asylum,
very sweet song. 1t was sung by one who
had lost her reason, and have come TO be
lieve that even the deranged and disordered
elements of nature would make music to
our ear If we only had acuteness enough to
listen. suppose that even the sounds In
nature that are discordant and repulsive
make harmony In Gods ear. You know
that you may come so near to an orchestr
that the sounds are painful instead OF
pleasurable, and think we stand 80 near
devastating storm and frightful whirlwind
we cannot hear that whfSh makes to Gods
ear and the ear of the spirits above us
music as complete as 1t is tremendous.
GODS INFINITE MUSIC.
The day of Judgment, which will be
day of uproar and tumult, suppose will
bring no dissonance to the ears of those
who can calmly listen; although it be as
when some great performer is executing
boisterous piece of music, he sometimes
breaks down the instrument on which he
plays; so it may be on that last day that
the grand march Of God, played by the
fingers of thunder and earthquake and
conhagration, may break down the world
upon which the music is executed.
Not only Is inanimate nature full of
music, but God has wonderfully organized
the human voice. SO that In the plainest
throat and lungs there are fourteen direct
muscles which can make over sixteen thou
sand different sounds, and there are thirty
indirect muscles which can make, it has
been estimated, more than one hundred
and seventy-three millions of soundsl Now,
say, when God has 80 constructed the
human voice, and when he has filled the
whole earth with harmony. and when he
recognized 1t in the ancient temple, have
right to come to the conclusion that God
loved music.
propose this morning, in setting apart
this organ for sacred use, to speak about
sacred music, first showing you its impor
lance, and then stating some Of the obsta
cles to it's advancement.
draw the first argument for the impor |
lance Of sacred music from the fact that |
God commanded it. Through Paul he tells |
us to admonish one another in psalms and |
HYMNS md en{rify1at aopns and throucyh |