News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-09-24

o God; Let All the People Praise Thee"
Affecting Instance of Conversion by Song.
BROOKLYN, Sept 20.-The magnif-
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. DIR. Tai
IMAGES sermon, which was appropriate
TO the occasion, was on the text, Gene
sis iv, 81, His brothers name was
JubaI he was the father of all such as
handle the harp and organ.
Lamech 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 its
full grandeur a woman fell into deliri-
um from which her reason was never
restored
The majesty of a great organ skill
fully played is almost too much for
human endurance, but how much the
instrument has done in the REINFORCE
ment of divine service it viii 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 l preach a sermon dedicatory
of this mighty throne of sacred sound
1t greets the eye as well as the ear. Be
hold this mountain of anthemsl This
forest of hosannahsi Its history is pc
culiar.
The late Mr.. George Jardine recently
made tour of the organs of Europe.
He gathered up in his portfolio an ac
count OF all the excellences 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 OBJ
tanned. and although he did not live to
carry out his idea, his son, Mr.. 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 harmonies
than can describe and all for God
and the lighting of the soul toward
him Its four banks of keys, its one
hundred and ten stops and appliances
its four thousand five hundred and ten
pipes, its 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. 1t will,
believe, under the divine blessing lead
uncounted thousands into the king
dom Its wedding marches, its thanks
antboy,c itS raC,1ioy,,o will co4,Y,I
after all the voices that follow it to
day shall have sung their last song To
God the Father, God the Son and
God the Holy Ghost we dedicate it'll
WHEN THE MORNING STARS SANG TO
GETHER.
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 to celebrate the crea-
ton was the birthplace of song. Imam
innate nature is full of Gods stringed
and wind instruments. Silence itself
perfect silence-is only a musical
rest in Gods great anthem of worship.
Wind among the leaves, insects hum
ming in the summer air, the rush OF
billow upon beach, the ocean far out
sounding its everlasting psalm, the bob
olink on the edge of the forest, the
quail visiting up from the grass, are
music.
On Blackwell's island | heard com
ing from a window of the lunatic
asylum a very sweet song. 1t was sung
by one who had lost her reason, and
have come to believe that even the de
ranged and disordered elements of ma
ture would make music to our ear II
we only had acuteness enough to lis
ten. / suppose that even the sounds
immature that are discordant and re
pulsive make harmony in Gods ear
You know that you may come SO near
to an orchestra that the sounds are
painful instead of pIeasurable, and
think we stand so near devastating
storm and frightful whirlwind we can
not hear that which makes to Gods
ear and the ear of the spirits above us
music as complete as it is tremendous
The day of judgment, which will be
a day of uproar and tunult, suppose
will bring no dissonance to the ears of
those who can calmly listen; although
it be as when some great performer is
executing boisterous piece of music,
he sometimes breaks down the instru
ment on which he plays, SO it may be
on that last day that the grand march
of God, played by the fingers of thunder
and earthquake and confagration, may
break down the world upon which the
music is executed. Not only is mani
mate nature full 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 thousand differ
ent sounds, and there are thirty indirect
muscles which can make, it has been
estimated, more than one hundred and
seventy.three millions of soundsl
Now, say, when God has so con
structed@ the human voice, and when
he has filed the whole earth with har.
mony, and when he recognized it in the
ancient temple, have a 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 its Importance and then stat
ing some of the obstacles to its ad
vancement.
''sTNG YE TO GOD"
draw the first argument for the i'm