Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1891-09-25

! lie started the HfSE SOUND LnaL rolled IRON
the wondrous instrument which has hac
so much TO do with the worship of tn,
ages But what improvement has bec5
made under the hands OF organ builder,
such as Bernhard, Sebastian Bach anC
George Hogarth and Joseph Booth anC
Thomas Robjohn. clear down to Georg,
and Edward Jardine of our own day
do not wonder that when the first full or
gan that we read Of as given in 757 by ar
emperor Of the east to king of France
sounded forth its full grandeur, woman
fell into delirium from which her reason
was never restored.
The majesty of a great organ skillfully
PLAYED is almost too much for human en-.
durance, but how much the instrument
has done in the reinforcement of divine
service it will take all time and all eternity
to celebrate. Last April, when we dedi-
Gated this church to the service of Al
mighty God, our organ was not more than
half done. It has now come so near com
pletion that this morning ! preach a ser
mon dedicatory of this mighty throne OF
sacred sound. II greets the eye as well rs
the ear Behold this mountain of an
themsI This forest of hosannahsl Its
history is peculiar.
HISTORY OF THIS ORGAN.
The late Mr.. George Jardine recently
made a tour Of the organs of Europe He
gathered up in his portfolio an account Of
all the excellences of the renowned instru-
ments of music on the other side of the At
lantic ard all the new improvements, and
brought back that portfolio to America de
claring that Brooklyn Tabernacle should
have the full advantage of all be had OBJ
tanned, and although he did not live to
carry out his idea, his son, Mr. Edward
Jardin9 has introduced into this great or
gan all those improvements and grandeurs,
and while you hear this organ you hear all
that is notable in the organs of Lucerne
and Fubourg and HARLEM and St Paul
and Westminster abbey and other great
organs that have enraptured the world
In it are banked up more harmonies than
l 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 diapason and
pedal double diapasOn, its song trumpet
and night horn and vOx humana, all ALL
we dedicate to God and the soul. 1t will
/ believe, under the divine blessing, lead
uncounted thousands into the kingdom
It's wedding marches, its thanksgiving
anthems, its re9uems will sound after all
the voices that follow it today shall have
sung their last song. To God the Father,
God the Son and God the Holy Ghost we
dedicate It'll
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 creation was the birthplace
Of song Inanimate nature is fun of Gods
stringed and wind instruments Silence
itself-perfect sieuce--is only musical
rest in Gods great anthem of worship
Wind among She leaves, insects humming
in the summer air the rush of hillow upon
beach, the ocean far out sounding its ever
lasting psalm, the boholink on the edge of
the forest, the quail whistling up from the
grass are music.
On Blackwelis island / heard. coming
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 be-
lieve that even the deranEed and disOrlered
elements of nature would make music to
our ear if we only had acuteness enough to
listen. | suppose that even the sounds in
nature that are discordant and repulsive
make harmony in Gods ear. You know
that you may come so near to an orchestra
that the sounds are painful instead of
and think we stand so near
storm and frightful whirlwind
we cannot hear that which makes to Gods
ear and the ear of the spirits above us
music as complete as it is tremendous.
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which can make over sixteen thou
sand different sounds, and there are thirty
indirect muscles which can make. it has
been estimated, more than one hundred
and seventy-three millions of sounds Now,
I say, when God has so constructed the
human voice, and when he has filed the
whole earth with harmony, and when he
recognized it in the ancient temple, have
right to come to the conclusion that God
loved music.
IpropOse this morning, in setting apart
this organ for sacred use, to speak about
sacred music, first showing you rs ihipor
tance, and then stating some of the obsta
cies to its advancement
draw the first argument for the impor-
lance of sacred music from the fact that
God commanded it. Through Paul he tells !