The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-05-14

poor do not want so much to be groan.
ed over as sung to. With the bread
and medicines and garments you give
them let there be an accompaniment
of smiles and brisk encouragement, Do
not stand and talk to them about the
wretchedness of their abode and the
hunger of their looks and the hardness
of their lot Ali they know it better
than you can tell them. Show them
the bright side of the thing, if there be
any bright side, Tell them good times
will come. Tell them that for the chill
dren of God there is immortal rescue.
Wake them up out of their stolidity by
an inspiring laugh, and while you send
in help, like the queen of Sheba also
send in spices,
There are two ways of meeting the
poor. One is to come into their house
with nose elevated in disgust, as
much as to say; II don't see how you
live here in this neighborhood. 1t act
ually makes me sick. There is that
bundle-take it, you poor, miserable
wretch, and make the most of it," An
other way is to go into the abode of the
poor in n manner which seems to say ;
''The blessed Lord sent me- He was
poor himself 1t is not more for the
good | am going to try to do you than
it is for the good you can do me. !"
Coming in that spirit, the gift will be as
aromatic as the spikenard on the feet
of Christ, and all the novels in that
alley will be fragrant with the spice.
SPICE NEEDED IN CHURCH MUSIC.
We need more spice and enlivenment
in our church music. Churches sit dis
cussing whether they shall have choirs
or precentors or organs or bass viols
or comets, say take that which will
bring out the most inspiring music If
we had half as much zeal and spirit in
our churches as we have in the songs
of our Sabbath schools it would not be
long before the whole earth would
quake with the coming God. Why, in
most churches nine tenths of the peo-
pie do not sing, or they sing so feebly
that the people at their elbows do not
know they are singing, People mouth
and humble the praises of God, but
there is not more than one out of a
hundred who makes "a joyful noise"
unto the Rock of Our Salvation Some
times, when the congregation forgets
itself, and is all absorbed in the good
ness of God or the glories of heaven, l
get an intimation of what church mu-
sic will be a hundred years from now
when the coming generation shall wake
up to its duty.
promise high spiritual blessing to
any one who will sing in church, and
who will sing so heartily that the peo-
pie all around cannot help but sing
Wake up! all the churches from Bangor
to San Francisco and across Christen-
dom. 1t is no matter of preference, it
is a matter of religious duty. Oh, for
fifty times more volume of sound. Ger
man chorals in German cathedrals sur
pass us, and yet Germany has received
nothing at the hands of God compared
with America, and ought the acclaim
in Berlin be louder than that in Brook
lynn Soft, long drawn out music is
appropriate for the drawing room and
appropriate for the concert, but St.
John gives an idea of the sonorous and
resonant congregational singing appro-
pirate for churches when, in listening
to the temple service of heaven, he
says: Il heard a great voice, as the
voice of a great multitude, and as the
voice of many waters, and as the voice
ofmighty thunderings. sIallelsjsh. far
the Lord God omnipotent reigneth,
A CRUSADE PROPOSED.
Join with me in crusade, giving me
not only your hearts but the mighty
uplifting of your voices, and l believe
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we can, through Christ's grace, sing