The Wahpeton times., 1891-10-01

90 WIN the worship OF the ages. But
what improvement has been made un-
der the hands of organ-builders such
as Bernard, Sebastian, Bach, and
George Hogarth and Joseph Booth
and Thomas Robjohn, clear on
down to George and Edward Jar
dine of our own day. l do not won
der that when the first full organ
that we read of as given in 757 by an
emperor of the East to a king of
France, sounded forth its full grandeur
q woman fell into delirium 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 il. stru-
ment has done in the reinforcement
Of Divine service it 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.
It has how come so near completion
that this morning I preach a sermon
dedicatory to this mighty throne of
sacred sound. It greets the eye as
we'll as the ear. Behold this mountain
OF Anthems!
THIS FOREST OF HosANNAHs!
It's history is peculiar. The late
George Jardine recently made tour
OF the organs of Europe. Hegathered
up in his portfolio an account of all
the excellences Of the renowned instru-
ments OF music on the other side OF
the Atlantic and all the new improve
ments, and brought back that port
folio to America declaring that
Brooklyn Tabernacle should have
the full advantage of all he had
obtained, and although he did not
live to carry out his idea, his son
Edward Jardine has introduced into
this organ all those improvements
and grandeurs, and while you
hear this organ you hear all that is
noble in the organs of Lucerne, and Fri
bourg, 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 I can describe and all
for God and the lighting of the soul
toward him. It's four banks of keys,
its 11O stops and appliances, it's A.
$40 pipes, it's chime of 81 bells, it's
cathedral diapason, and pedal double
diapason, it's song trumpet and night
horn and vox humana, all, all, we
dedicate to God and the soul. twill,
believe, under the divine blessing,
lead uncounted thousands into the
kingdom. It's wedding marches, its
thanksgiving anthems, its requiems
will sound after all the voices that fol-
low it today shall have sung their last
song. To God the Father, God the
Son, and God the Holy Ghost we ded-
icate it!
There has been much discussion as
to where music was born. think
that at the beginning, when the morn
ing stars sang together. and all the
sons Of God sang for joy, that the
/ which the angels stood to celebrate
the creation was -.'
THE BIRTHPLACE OF SONG.
Inanimate nature is full of Gods
stringed and wind instruments. ST.
'lence itself-pertect 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 blllow upon beach, the ocean
far out sounding it's everlating psalm,
the bobolink on tho edge of the forest,
the quail whistling up from the grass,
are music.
The day Of judgment, which will be
uproar and tumult, I suppose will
bring no dissonance to the ears of
those who can calmly listen; although
it be as when some great performer is
exacting q boisterous piece of music,
he sometimes breaks down the instru-
ment on which he plays, 80 it may be
on that last day that the grand march
Of God, played by the fingers of thun-
der, and earthquake, and conf1agra-
tion, may break down the world upon
which the music is executed. Not only
is inanimate nature full of music, but
God has wonderfully organized the
human voice, so that in the plainest
throat and lungs there are IA direct
muscles which can make over sixteen
\ thousand different sounds, and there
\ are 80 indirect muscles which can
make, it has been estimated, more
thano one hundred and seventy-three
millions of soundsl Now, say, when
God has so constructed the human
voice, and when He has filled the
whole earth with harmony, and when
\ He recognized in the ancient temple, !
+ have a right to come to theconclusion
that God loved music.
propose, this morning, in setting
apart this organ. for sacred use, to,
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