The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-21
TALMAGE'S FEASTOFSONG
THE TABERNACLE NEW ORGAN
DEDICATED.


George Jardine's Tour of Europe TO
Learn the Features of the Great
Organs OF the Old World,
BROOKLYN, N. Y, Sept. 20.-The mag
nificent organ Of the new Brooklyn Taber-
naole was dedicated to-day. The services
we're veritable musical festivals. While the
regular musical programme at the taber-
nacle is always attractive, that of to-day
was exceptionally beautiful. the oonGrega-
tional singing, offertories and interludes
being rendered with marvellous volume and
expression. DIR. Talmage's sermon, which
was appropriate to the occasion, was on the
| text, Genesis iv., 81: "His brothers name
was Jubal; he was the father of all such as
handle the harp and organ.n
Lamech had two boys, the one herds
man and the other a musician. Jubal the
younger son wns the first organ builder.
He started the frs 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
Under the hands Of orRar-builders such as
| Bernhard, Sebastian Bach, and George
| Hogarth and Joseph Booth and Thomas
| bjohn, clear on down to George aud Ed
ward JardIne of our own day. do not
wonder that when the first full organ that
| we road of as given in 757 by an emperor OF
the east TO a king Of France, sounded forth
| its full grandeur a woman fell into a deliri-
| um from which her reason was never
restored. The majesty Of great organ
skillfully played is almost too much for
human endurance, but how much the in
| strument has done ia the reinforcement OF
divine service Ii 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 a
sermon dsdicatory of this mighty throne OF
sacred sound. IL greets the eye as we'll as
the ear. Behold this mountain of anthemst
This forest of hosannahsl Its history is
peculiar. The late Mr.. George Jardine
recently made a 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 ou
| the other side of the Atlantic and all the
new improvements and brought back that
| portfolio 70 America. declaring that Brook
| lyn Tabernacle should have the full ad-
| vantage OF all he had obtained, and, al
| though he did not live to carry out his
| idea his son, MIR. Edward Jardine, has in-
troduced into this great organ all those
Improvements and grandeurs, and whila
you hear this organ you hear all that is
notable in the organs OF Lucerne, and
Freihurg, and Haarlem, and st. Paul,
and Westminster Abbey, and other great
organs that have enraptured the world.
4 IN it are banked up more harmonies than
can describe, aud all for God and the
lighting Of the soul toward him. Its four
| banks Of keys, its one hundred aud ten
stops and appliances, its four thousand five
| hundred and ten pipes, It's chime Of tairty-
seven bells, its cathedral diapason, aud
| pedal double diepason, its song trumpet
and night horn and UoD humand. all. all
| we dedicate 20 God and the soul. IL will, 1
believe, under tho divine blessing, lead un-
counted thousands into the kingdom. It's
| wedding marches its thanksgiving an
| thems, its 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 dedi-
cate It'll
There has been much discussion as to
where music was born. | think that at the
beginning, when the morning stars sang to-
| gether, and all the Sons of God shouted for
Joy, that the earth heard the echo. The
cloud on which the angels stood to celebrate
the creation. was the birthplace OF song.
Iuanimate nature is full of Gods strlnged
aud wind Instruments Silence itself-per-
feet silence-is only a musical rest in Gods
great anthem of worship. Wind among the
leaves, insects humming in tho summer air,
the rush OF billow upon beach, the ocean far
out sounding its everlasting psalm, the bobo-
link on the edge of the forest, the quail
whistling up from the grass, are
music On Blackwell's Island heard.
coming from window OF the
lunatic asylum, q very sweet song. II was
sung by one who had lost her reason, and
have come TO believe taat even the de-
ranged and disordered elements of nature
would make music to our ear, tx we only
had aoutenesS enough 70 listen. L suppose
that even the sounds in nature that are dis
cordant and repulsive make harmony 10
| Gods ear You know that you may come
| so near to an orchestra that the sounds are
painful instead of pleasurable; and l think
we stand so near devastating storm and
| frightful whirlwind we cannot hear that
which makes to Gods ear and the ear OF
the spirits above as, a music as complete as
it is tremendous.
Tho day of judgment. which will be q
day of uproar aud tumult, l suppose will
bring'no dissonance to the ears Of those who
eau calmly listen; although it be as when
some great performer is executing a bois-
| ferrous piece OF music. he sometimes breaks
down the instrument on which he plays, so
il may be on that last day that the grand
march of God, played by the fingers of
thunder, and earthquake. and conAagra-
ton, may break down the world upon
which the music is executed. Not
only is inanimate nature foil of
music, but God has wonderfully organized
the human voice, so that in the plainest
throat and lungs there are fourteen direct
muscles which can make over sixteen thou
sand different sounds, and there are thirty
indirect muscles which can make, it hal
been estimated, more than one hundred and
seventy-three millions of soundsi Now,
say, when God has 50 constructed the hu-
man voice, and whoa he has filled the whole
earth with harmony. and when he recog-
nized it IN this ancient temple, | have right
to come to the conclusion that God loved
music.
1 propose this morning, In setting apars
this organ for sacred use, to speak abont ss-
cred Irnsic; first showing you its impor-
tanoe, aud then stating some OF the ooSta-
cles to its advancement
/ draw the first argument for the tmpor.
tauce of sacred music from the fact that
God commanded 1t. Through Paul he tells
us to admonish one another III psalms, ana
hymns, and spiritual songs; and through
David he cries out: ''5ing ye to God. all
We kingdoms of the earth.n And there are
hundreds of other passages might uane,
| proving that It is as much mans duty &c
sing as it is his duty 60 pray. Indeed,
think there are more cJmm8nds IN the bloie
to sing than there are to pray. God moi
only asks for the human voice but for 10
strnmeats of music. lie hsks for the oymbal,
and the harp, aud the trumpet as well as the
organ. And / suppose that. IN the last days
Of the church, tae harp, the lutte. the trum-
pet and all the Instruments or music whe-