Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-09-21
POWER OF SACRED SONG.
SERMON AT THE DEDICATION OF THE
ORGAN AT THE TABERNACLE

The Glorious Inheritance of Church
PsaImody- Let the People Praise Thee.
o God. Let All the Peopis, Praise Thee"
Aaectin.. Inst:,n:.,. or Conversion hy song.
BROOKLYN. Sept 20 The magniti-
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 olfertories and
interludeS beipg rendered with marvel
ous volume and expression DR.. Tai
IMAGES SERMON which was appropriate
to the occasion was on the text, Gene
sis ". q. His brothers naAle was
Jubal he was the father Of all such as
handle the harp and organ
Lamech had two boys. the one a
herdsIuan and the other IL musician
Jubal. the younger son. was the first
organ builder lie 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 un
der the hands of organ builders such as
Bernhard, Sebastian Bach and 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
y IF naGf
to king of France, sounded forth it's
full grandeur woman fell into deliri-
un from which her reason was never
restored.
The majesty of great organ skill
fully played is almost too much for
human endurance but how much the
instrument has done in the REINFORCE
ment of divine service it will take all
time and all eternity to celebrate, Last
April when we dedicated this church to
the service of Almighty God our organ
was not more than half done. 1t has
now come so near completion that this
morning preach sermon dedicatory
of this mighty throne of sacred sound.
1t greets the eye as well as the ear. Be
hold this mountain of anthems This
forest of hosannahsl It's history is pc
culiar
The late Mr.. George Jardine recently
made a tour of the organs of Europe.
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 back
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 to
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 is notable in the
organs of Lucerne 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, it's one
hundred and ten stops and appliances,
its four thousand five hundred and ten
pipes, its chime of thirty-seven bells,
its cathedral diapson and pedal double
its song trumpet and night
horn and vox humana, all, all, we ded-
icate to God and the soul. 1t will, |
believe, under the divine blessing lead
10 l.;
dom. Its wedding marches, its thanks
giving anthems, its requiems will sound
after all the voices that follow it to-
day shall have sung their last song To
God the Father God the Son and
God the Holy Ghost we dedicate til
WHEN THE MORNING STARS SANG To
GETHER
There has been much discussion as
to where music was born 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 crea-
ton was the birthplace of song. IMAM
innate nature is full of Gods stringed
silence-is only a musical
rest in Gods great anthem of worship.
Wind among the leaves, insects hum
ming in the summer air, the rush of
billow upon beach, the ocean far out
sounding its everlasting psalm, the bob
oink on the edge of the forest, the
quail visiting up from the grass. are
music.
On BlackwelPs island l heard COM
ing from a window of the Iunatic
asylum a very sweet song. 1t was sung
by one who had lost her reason, and I
have come to believe that even the de
ranged and disordered elements of ma
ture would make music to our ear, if
we only had acuteness enough to lis
ten 1 suppose that even the sounds
in nature that are discordant and re-
pulsive make harmony in Gods ear.
You know that you may come so near
to an orchestra that the sounds are
painful instead of pieasurable, and I
think we stand so near devastating
storm and frightful whirlwind we can
not hear that which makes to Gods
ear and the ear of the spirits above US
a music as complete as it is tremendous
The day of judgment, which will be
day of uproar and tu1nult, L suppose
will bring no dissonance to the ears OF
those who can calmly listen; although
it be as when some great performer Is
executing a boisterous piece of music
he sometimes breaks down the instru
ment on which he plays, SO it may b.
on that last day that the grand marcE
of God, played by the fingers of thunder
and earthquake and confagration, may
break down the world upon which the
music is executed. Not only is mani
mate nature full of music but God has
organized the human voice,
SO that in the plainest throat and lungs
there are fourteen direct muscles which
can make over sixteen thousand differ
emit sounds, and there are thirty indirect
muscles which can make, it has been
more than one hundred and
millions of soundsl
Now, say, when God has so con-
structed the human voice, and when
he has filed the whole earth with har
mony, and when he recognized it in the
ancient temple, have a right to come