Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-09-21
DR. TALMAGH'S SERMON
TEE GREAT DIVINE DELEGATES ~ NEW
TABsRNACLs ORGAN
Jubaba, tie EshE Of the Organ and HaEP.
The Wonderful Instrument Of Praise which
VIII Peal Rorlh IN ths Great Church.
"Praisa Ys hs Lord"
Spe.sal T..scran. q tAs Rsgistsr.

BROOKLYN, N. Y, September 20,
1s91.-The magnificent organ Of the
New Brooklyn Tabernacle was dedi-
Gated to-day. The services were verit-
able musical festivals. While the regu-
lar musical programme at the Taber-
nacle is always attractive, that Of to-
day is exceptionally beautiful, the Con-
gregatlonal singing, OffertorieS and in
terIudes being rendered with marvellous
volume and expression. DR.. Talmage'S
sermon, which was appropriate 10 the
occasion, was on the text, Genesis 4; 21;
ellis brothers name was JUbabat; he
was the father OF oil such as handle
harp and organ.
Lamech and two boys, the one
herdsman and the other a musician. Ju-
bal, the younger son, was the hrSt or
gan builder He started the first sound
that rolled from the WOndrOUS tnstru-
ment which has had so much 70 DO with
the worship OF the ages. But what In
proyement has been made under the
hands OF organ builders such as Bern
hard, Sebastian Bach, and George ho-
garth and Joseph Booth and Thomas
RObjOhn, clear on down TO George ana
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 10 King OF
France, sounded forth its full grandeur
q woman fell into a delirium from
which her reason was never re-
stored. The majesty of a great organ
skilfully played Is almost too much for
human endurance: but how much the
instrument has done in the reinforce
mont OF Divine service II will take all
time end all eternity TO celebrate. Last
April. when we dedicated this church 70
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.
It greets the eye as we'll as the ear. Be
hold this mountain Of Anthems! This
forest Of Hosannahs! It's history Is Pc
culiar. The late Mr.. George Jardine
recently made q tour OF the organs OF
Europe. He gathered up in his port
folio an account Of all the eXcellences Of
the renowned instruments of music on
the other sideOf the Atlantic aud all the
new improvements, and brought back
that portfolio 10 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
Jardin6, has introduced into this great
organ all those improvements and
grandenrs, and while you hear this or
gan YOU hear all that is notable In the
organs Of Lucerne, and Fri6ourg, and
Haarlem, and st. Paul, and WeStmin-
ster Abbey and other great organs that
have enraptured the world. In il
are banked up more harmOnies than
] can describe, and all for God and the
lighting of the soul toward Him. It's four
banks of keys, It's ono hundred and ten
stons and appliances, it's four thousand
I've hundred and ten pipes, its chime of
thrty-seven bells, its cathedral diapa-
con, and pedal double diapaSon, It's song
trumpet and night horn and UOC humane
all, all, we dedicate to God and the
soul. 1t viii believe under the Divine
blessing lead unCOunted thousands into
the kingdom. It's wedding marches,
it's thanksgiving anthems, its reQuiems
will sound after all the voices that fol-
low It to-day shall have sung their last
song. To God the Father, God the
Son, aud God the Holy Ghost we dedi-
cate 10!
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 70 celebrate the creation, was the
birthplace of song. Inanimate nature
is full Of Gods stringed and wind instru-
icents. Silence i5self-perfect silence
is only q musical rest IN Gods great an
them Of worship. Wind among the
leaves, insects humming In the summer
yir, the rush Of billOw upon beach, the
ocean far out sounding its everlasting
psalm, the bOhOiink on the edge of the
forest, the quail whistling up from the
grass, are music. On Blac6well's Island
/ heard, coming from a window OF the
lunGtic asylum, very sweet song. 1t
was sung by one who had lost her rea-
son, and have come 10 believe that
even the deTansed and diSOrdered ele-
ments OF nature would make music to
our ear, IL we only had acuteneSs
enough TO listen. ] suppose that even
TIE soauds I'm nature that are diScOrdant |
Srd reDulsjve make harmony in Gods |
ear. You know that You may come so
near an orchestra that the sounds are
painful instead Of pleaSurable; aud I
think we stand so near devastating
ssOTm and frightful whirlwlnd, we can
not hear that which makes 20 Gods ear
and the ear OF the spirits above Us, a |
music as complete as 10 is tremendous. |
The day OF Judgment which will be a
day OF Uproar and tumult, / suppose
will bring no diSSCnanCe TO the ears Of
these who can calmly listen; although
il be rs when some great performer is
executing bOiSterOuS piece of music,
no sometimes breaks down the instru-
meut on which he plays, so it may be
or that last day that the grand march
OF God, played by the fingers of thun-
der and earthquake and cOnfagratiOn,
may break down the world upon which
the music Is executed. Not
only is inaHimate nature full Of
music, bit God has wonderfully organ
lied the human voice, so that in the
pl2inest throat and lungs there are
fourteen direct muscles which can make
over sixteen thousand different sounds
and there ere thirty indirect muscles
which can make, IL has been estimated
more than one hundred and seventy
three millions Of sOundSl Now. 1 say,
when God has so constructed the human
voice, and when he has filed the whole
earth with harmony, and when he re-
cognized 10 10 the ancient temple,
have right to come to the conclusion