The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-09-25

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fI7s foresf stflf2 Why, Christ would
come into the forest and look mp as He
| looked through the olives. and He
yvouId wave his hand and say Let
| everything that hath breath praise the
| Lord" and. keeping time WIN the
stroke of innumerable wings. there
would be five thousand bird voices leap
Fo 3,1r- spirits now do all the singing.
But how long would Heaven be quiet7
! How Ig,Y,o9 ossHallelujahP' would cry
some glori6ed Methodist from under
the altar. Praise the Lord. " would
sing the martyrs from among the
thrones. Thanks be unto God, who
giveth US the vietOry" a great multi
tude of redeemed spirits would cry.
/ Myriads of voices coming into the har-
unony and the one hundred and forty
| and four thousand breaking forth into
| one ACCLAIM alton. Stop that loud sing
/ ingl Stopi o no, they can not hear
me. You might as well try to drown
the thunder of the sky, or beat back
| the roar of the sea, for every soul IN
| Heaven has resolved to do its own sing
/ ing. Alas! that we should have tried
l on earth that which they can not do in
/ Heaven, and, instead Of joining all our
voices in the praise Of the most high
/ God, delegating perhaps to unconse-
| Grated men and women this most solemn
and most delightful service.
| Now, in this church, we have resolved
/ upon the plan of conducting the music
! by organ and cornet We do it for two
reasons. One is that by throwing the
! whole responsibility upon the mass Of
| the people, making the great IA multitude
| the choir, we might rouse more hearth
ness. The congregation coming on the
! Sabbath day feel that they cannot
/ delegate this part OF the great service
| to anyone else, and SO they themselves
/ assume it We have had a glorious con-
! gregational singing here. People have
! come many miles to hear it. They are
/ not sure about the preaching, but they
| can always depend upon the singing
! We have heard the sound coming up
/ like 1.-THE voice OF many waters" but 1t
| will be done at a better rate after
/ awhile, when we shall realize the
height and the depth and the immen-
/ sity of this privilege
! I forgot to state the other reason why
we adopted this plan. That is, we do
not want any choir quarrels You know
| very we'll that in scores Of churches
| there has been perpetual contention in
| that direction. The only church fight
that ever occurred under my ministry
| was over a melOdeon, in my first settle
| ment Have you never been in church
on the Sabbath day, and heard the
choir sing, and yOu said; THAT is
splendid music" The next Sabbath
you were in that church, and there was
no choir at all. Why? The leader was
mad, or his assistants were mad, or
they were all mad together. The ma
iority Of the chOirs throughout the land
1 are not made up of Christian people,
| and three-fOurths of the church fights
| originate in the organ loft. take that
| back and say nine-tenths. A great
many OF our churches are dying of
choirs,
We want to rouse all our families to
the duty of sacred song. We want each
! family of our congregation to be q
! singing school. Childish petulance,
| obduracy and intractability would be
soOthed if we had more singing in the
household, and then our little ones
/ would be prepared for the great con-
! gregation on the Sabbath day, their
voices uniting with other voices in the
praises of the Lord. After a shower
! there are scores of streams that come
down the mountain side with voices
ripping and silvery, pouring into one
river and then rolling in united
strength to the sea So, I would have
all the families in our church send
forth the voice OF prayer and praise,
pouring it into the great tide Of public
worship that rolls on and on to empty
into the great, wide heart of GOD.
Never can we have our church sing as
it ought until our families sing as they
ought
There will be a great revolution on
this subject in all our churches God
Will come down by His spirit and rouse
up the old hymns and tunes that have
not been more than half awake since
the time of our grandfathers. The ST.
lent pews in the church will break
forth into music, and when the CON
ductor takes his place on the Sabbath
day there Will be a great host of voices
rushing into the harmony. Ny Chris
/ tian friends, if we have no taste for
this service on earth, what will VIC do
in Heaven, where they all sing, and
sing forever.
want to rouse you to unauimity in
| Christian song that has never yet been
| exhibited. Come, nowl clear your
throsts and get ready for duty, or you
will never hear the end of this. I never
shall forget hearing a Frenchman sing
the MarseiIlaise on the Champs
Elysees, Paris, just before tho battle
OF Sedan IN 1870. never saw such en-.
thusiRsm before or since. As he sang
that national air, o. how the French
, shouted Have you ever in an English
assem- blage heard a band play, 'tGod
Save the Queen?" If you have, you
know something about the enthusiasm
! of a national air. Now, I tell you that
these songs we sing sabbath by Sabbath
are the national airs of Jesus Christ
and of the Kingdom Of Heaven.
! and if you do not learn to sing them
here, how do you ever expect to sing
! the song Of Moses and the Lamb? !
! should not be surprised at all if some
. of the best anthems of Heaven vVere
J made mp OF the best songs of earth
May God increase our reverence for
, Christian psalmody, and keep as from
disgracing 1t by our Indifference and
, frivOlity. When Cromwell's army went
into battle, he stood at the head OF
them one day, and gave out the long
meter do1ology to the time of the 'tOld
, Hundredth," and that great host com
Pany by company. regiment by zegi-
, ment, battalion by battalion, Joined in
/ the dOxolOgy;
Praise God from whom all blessings now,
Praise Him. ali creatures here below;
Praise Him above, ye heavenly host
Praise Father Son and Holy Ghost.
. And while they sang they marched
and while they marched they fought
; and while they fought they got the
victory. o, men and women Of Jesus
; I C.nv5ee Lat rrn fu& all INV e~,,- af-eg