Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-09-24
rALMAGE TALKS MUSIC.
THE TABERNACLE RINGS WITH
SWEET MELODIES,
Lending Encitantment 10 Last sum
days Sermon The worth Of Music
~ Viewed by the Great Divine
"rhe Voice OF Many waters"

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magnificent organ OF the New Brook
yn tabernacle was dedicated to-day.
| The services were vertablc musical
festivals, While the regular musical
Programme at the tabernacle is al
WAYS attractive, that of to-day was
exceptionally beautiful, the congrega.
| Iional singing, oifertorics, and inter
ludos being rendered with marvellous
| yolumo and expression. DIR, Talmages
sermon, which was appropriate To tho
occasion. was on the toNt, Genesis 4;
! "a: Ellis brothers name was Jubal he
was the father Of NIL such rs handle
The harp and organ
There has been much discussion
Ms TO where music was born. think
that ut the beginning, when the morn.
ing stars sang together, and all the
suns of God shouted for Joy, that the
| earth heard tho echo The cloud on
which the angels stood to celebrate tho
creation, was the birthplace Of song.
lnanimato nature is full OF Gods
stringcd and wind Instruments.
Silence itself--porfcct silence
is only musical rest in Gods great
anthem of worship Wind among the
leaves, insects humming in the sun.
!
beach, the ocean far out sounding its
everlasting psalm, the bobolinll on the
edge of the forest, the quail whistlinr
up from the grass, ARE music. TN
| Rlucl<wcll's Island I h ard, coming
| from window OF tho lunatic asylum.
"a very sweet song. TWAS sung by one
who hud lost her reason, and | have
come To believe that even the dc,
| all n
nature ould make music 10 our ear,
| IL we only had ncutcnosS enough to
| listen | suppose that even the sounds
! In nature that are disrordant and re-
pulsivo make harmony In Gods ear,
| You know that you may come 80 near
| TO an orchestra that the sounds arc
painful instead Of plensurnblc; and !
! think we stand SO near devastating
storm aud frightful whirlwind, that
we cannot hear that which makes to
Coda ear and tho ear OF tho spirits
above MS, n music as complete ns II Is
tremendous.
The day OF Judgment, which will be
day of uproar and tumult, suppose
| win bring no dissonnnce TO the onrs OF
those who can calmly listen; although
| & be MS when some great performer II
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| he sometimes breaks down the instru
mcnt on which no plays, 30 IT may b,
on that last day that the grand marcel
of God played by the fingers of thun
! der, and earthquake, and coningrntion
mny break down the world upon
| which the music IL executed. Not
only IL inanimnte nature full OF
| music, but God has wonderfully or
L.. lyt Ia.
| ohe pluinest throat and lungs there are
| fourteen direct muscles which cnr
| make over sixteen thousand different
sounds, and there are thirty indirect
| muscles which can make, IL has been
estimated, more than one hundred and
scycnty-th 60 millions of sounds
| Now, | say, when God has so con
! structcd the human voice, and when Ia
! has filed the whole earth with hnr
mony, and when he recognized il in the
ancient temple, ] have II 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 show
ing you it's importance, and then stat
| Ing some Of the obstacles to It's al
! vanccment.
| uFuN lnt UGSL IoT VIC I'M
portanCe OF sacred music from the fact
that God commanded IT, Through Pau
| he tells MS to admonish one another In
! psalms, and hymns, and spiritual
songs; and through David he
cries out; Sing We 10 God, al
| We kingdoms OF the earth ;
And there are hundreds OF other pas
sages might name, proving that IL !
| A. Lat. 10. al. . 4.
| his duty TO pray. Indeed, ! think
there are more commands in the Bible
| to sing than there are To pray. Goo
not only asks for the human voice but
| for Instruments Of music lie asks foi
the cymbal, and the harp, and tn,
| trumpet as well as the organ. hnc
| suppose that in the last
DAYS OF the church, the harp, tho lutte
the trumpet, and all the instruments
Of music whether they have been in tn,
brought by their masters and lait
| down at the feet of of Christ, and thei
sounded In the church's triumph, OF
her way from suffering into glory
Praise We the Lordr' Praise him with
your voices. Praise him with stringeo
instruments and with organs.
Many Of you are illustrations %
what sacred song can do. Through
| it you were brought int,
tho Kingdom of Jesus Christ
You stood out against the argument
and the warning Of the pulpit: bu
when, in the sweet words Of Isaa,
Watts, or Charles Wesley, or John
Newton, or Toplady the love Of jesus
was sung TO your soul, then you sur
rendered, as armed castle, that coulC
not be taken by host, lifts its win
dow TO listen 10 q harp's trill. Their,
was Scotch soldier dying in Now
| Orleans, and Scotch minister came in
TO give him the consultations of tho
Gospel The man turned 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
ords:
Oh, mother, dear Jerusalem,
when shall come to thce1
He sang il to the tune OF "Dundee, +"
and everybody in Scotland knows
that; and as he began to sing the dying
soldier turned over on his pillow, and
said TO the minister: Where did you
learn that?' "Why," replied the min,
ster, my mother taught me that"
So did mine said the dying Scotch
colder; and the very foundation of his
heart was upturned, and then and
there he yielded himself to Christ. oh,
il has an irresistible power. Luthers
,ermons have been forgotten
tut his Judgment Hymn y
'.nVs on through the ages, and
will keep on singing until the blast OF
he archangels trumpet shall bring
bout that very day which the hymn
e.ebrates. would to God that those
Tho hear me, to-day, would take these
ongs of salvation as messages from
heaven; for, just as certainly as the
birds brought food to Elijah, by the
brook Cherith, SO these winged har-
monies, God-sent, are flying to your
Ioul with the bread of life. Open your
mouths and take il, o hungry Elijahsl
In addition to the inspiring music OF
)rr own day we have a glorious in
aeritance of church psalmody which
has come down fragrant with the de.
Totions of other generntionsr-tunes no
more worn out than they were when
mr great-grandfathers climbed up on