Connecticut western news., 1891-09-24
POWER OF SACRED SONG.
SERMON AT THE DEDICATION OF THE
 ORGAN AT THE TABERNACLE

The Glorious Inheritance of Church
 O God; Let All the People Praise Thee"
 Affecting Instance of Conversion by Song.
 BRooKLYN, Sept 20. The magnifi- 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, offertories and interludes being rendered with marvel ous volume and expression. Dr. Tal- mages sermon. which was appropriate to the occasion, was on the text, Gene sis iv. 21, His brothers name was Jubal; he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ"
 La1nech had two boys the one a herdsman 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 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 given in 757 by an emperor of the east to king of France. sounded forth i:s full grandeur woman fell into deliri- um 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 re-enforce- 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, It has now come so near completion that this morning preach sermon dedicatory of this mighty throne of sacred sound. It greets the eye as well as the ear. Be hold this mountain of anthemsl This forest of hosannahsl Its history is pc culiar
 The late Mir. George Jardine recently made a tour of the organs of Europe. He gathered up in his portfolio an ac- count of all the exceuences 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 ob- tained, and although he did not live to carry out his idea, his son. Mir. 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 Haarlem and St. Paul and Westminster abbey, and other great organs that have enraptured the world
 In it are banked up more har1nonies than can describe, and all for God and the lighting of the soul toward him. It's four banks of keys, it's one hundred and ten stops and appliances, it's four thousand five hundred and ten pipes, it's chime of thirty seven bells, its cathedral diapson and pedal double diapson, its song trumpet and night horn and vox humana. all, all, we ded- icate to God and the soul It will, believe, under the divine blessing lead uncounted thousands into the king dom. It's wedding marches. its thanks. giving anthems. it's requiems will sound after all the voices that follow 1t to- day shall have sung their last song To God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost we dedicate itl
 WHEN THE MORNING STARS SANG TO GETHER
 There has been much discussion as to where music was born. Ithink that l at the beginning. when the morning stars sang together. and all the suns o1 God shouted for joy, that the earth | heard the echo The cloud on which l the angels stood to celebrate the crea I ton was the birthplace of song Inan innate nature is full of Gods stringed l and wind instruments. Silence itself perfect silence is only musical 1 rest in Gods great anthem of worship Wind among the leaves, insects hum ming in the summer air, the rush o pillow upon beach. the ocean far out sounding it's everlasting psalm, the bob ! blink on the edge of the forest, tht quail visiting up from the grass. arc I music
 On Blackwells island heard com ing from a window of the lunatit asylum very sweet song It was sung by one who had lost her reason. and have come to believe that even the de ranged and disordered elements of na ture would make music to our ear. we only had acuteness enough to lis ten. suppose that even the sound in nature that are discordant and re pulsive make harmony in Gods ear
 You know that you may come so nea to an orchestra that the sounds ar
 painful instead of p!easurable, and
 think we stand SO near devastatin
 storm and frightful whirlwind we can not hear that which makes to God ear and the ear of the spirits above u
 . music as complete as it is trelnendous
 The day of judgment. N h!ch will b
 . day of uproar and tuInult, suppos will bring no dissonance to the ears c
 those who can calmly listen; althoug
 it be as when some great performer
 executing boisterous piece of music
 he sometimes breaks down tlls i.lsrru
 ment on which he plays, so it may b
 on that last day that the grand marc
 of God, played by the fingers of thundt
 and earthquake and conhagration. ma