Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-09-26
DIR. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
He Pleads for Christian Melo-
Capitalization Of the
Big New Organ In the sTabernacle Made
the Occasion for a.Discourse on Har-
mOny In the Church-GOd's
Music Found In Every
thing.

ne maSnlncenJ organ Oh Jne new
Brooklyn tabernacle was dedicated o
day. The services were veritable mus
ical festivals. While the regular musi-
cal programme at the tabernacle Is
always attractive, that CT to-day was
exceptionally beautiful, the Congrega-
tional singing, offertories and inter-
ludes being rendered with marvellous
volume and expression. Dr. Talmage's
sermon, which was appropriate to the
occasion, was on the text. Genesis ",
q: His brothers. name was Jubal.
He was the father OF all such as handle
the harp and organ"
Lamech had two bows, the one q
herdsmsn and the other musician.
Jubal, the younger son, was the first
organ builder. He started the Iirst
sound that rolled from the wondrOus
instrument which has had SO much to
do with the worship OF the ages. Bat
what improvement has been made I'M
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 Or
gan that we read OF as given in 751 BY
an emperor OF the east to the king ef
France, sounded forth its full grandeur
woman fell into q delirium from
which her reason was never restored.
The majesty OF a great organ skillfully
played Is almost too much for human
endurance, but how much the instru'
has done in the reformation OF divine
services it will take all time and eter-
nifty 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 q sermon dedicatory OF this
mighty throne of sacred sounds. 1t
greets the eye as well as the ear.
Behold this mountain OF anthems.
This forest OF hosannahs. Its history
10 peculiar. The late Mr.. George Jar
dine recently made tour OF the organs
Of Europe. He gathered up in his
portfolio an account OF all the excel
lences OF the renowned instruments ri
music on the other side OF the Atlantic,
and all the new improvements and
brought back that portfolio to America.
declaring that Brooklyn tabernacles
should have the full advantage OF all
he had obtained and although he did
not liye TO carry opt his idea, his son,
Mr.. Edward Jardine, has introduced
into bis great organ all those improve
ments and grandeurs and While you
hear this organ you hear all that Is not
able in the organs Of Lucerne and Fri.
bourg 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 can describe, and all for God and
the lighting OF the soul toward him.
It's four banks OF keys, its ITO stops and
appliances, Its 4,51O pipes. its chime OF
thirty-seven bells, its cathedral diapa-
son and pedal double diapas0n, its song
trumpet and night horn and vox hui
mana, all, all, We dedicate to God and
the soul. 1t will, believe. Under the
divine blessing lead uncOunted thou
sands into the kingdom. Its wedding
marches, its thanksgiving anthems, its
requiems, will sound 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!
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 an
gels stood to celebrate the creation was
tho birthplace OF song. Inanimate ma
ture is full Of Gods stringed and wind
instruments.
Silence itself--periect silence-is only
q musical rest in Gods great anthem OF
worship. Wind among the leaves. in
sects humming in the summer air, the
rush Of billow upon the beach. the
ocean far out sounding its everlasting
psalm, the bobolink on the edge OF the
forest, the quail whistling up from the
grass, are music. On Blackwell's
island heard coming from a window OF
the lunatlc asylum, q very sweet song.
It was sung by one who had lost her
reason and have come to believe that
even the deranged and disOrdered ele-
ments OF nature would make music to
our ear II 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 50
near to an orchestra that the sounds
are painful instead of pleasurable and 1
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 spirit above US q
music as complete as IL is tremendous.
The day OF Judgment, which will be a
day Of uproar and tumult, / suppose will
bring no dissonance 70 the ears OF those
who can calmly listen; although 1t be as
when some great perfcamer is executing
a boisterous piece OF music, he some
times breaks down the instrument 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 CONFEDERATION, may
break down the world on which the
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