The Red Cloud chief., 1891-10-02

music But how long viii you keep
the forest stilip Why. Chris: would
come into the forest and LOOK up as He
looked through the olives, and lie
would wave His hand and say: Let
everything that hath breath praise the
Lord" and, keeping time with the
stroke Of innumcrable wings there
would be Eve thousand bird voices leap
ing into harmony.
-Four spirits now DO all the singing.
But how long would Heaven be quiet7
How long? 'Hallelujahr" would cry
some glori6ed Methodist from under
the altar. Praise the Lord" would
sing the martyrs from among the
thrones. Thanks be unto God, who
giveth us the victory" q great multi
tude Of redeemed spirits would cry.
Ayriads of voices coming into the har-
mony and the hundred and forty
and four thousand breaking forth into
n reclamation Stop that loud sing
me. You might As well try 10 drown
the thunder of the sky. or beat Jack
the roar of the sea for every soul in
Heaven has resolved 70 do its own sing
ing. Alas. that we should have tried
on earth that which they can not do In
Heaven. and, instead of joining ali our
voices in the praise Of the most high
God, d~elegating perhaps TO unconse-
Grated men and women this most solemn
and most delightful service.
Now. in this church, we have resolved
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by organ and cornet We do il for two
reasons One is that by throwing the
whole responsibility upon the mass Of
the people, making the great multitude
the choir. we might rouse more hearth
ness The congregation coming on the
Sabbath day feel that they cannot
delegate this part Of the great service
70 anyone else, and so they themselves
assume IL We have had a glorious con-
gregational singing here. People have
come many miles to rear it. They are
not sure abou the preaching, but they
can always depend upon the singing.
We nave heard the sound coming up
like 1.-The voice of many waters" but il
will be done at a better rate after
awhile, when we shall realize the
height and the depth and the immen-
sity of this privilege.
forgot to state the other reason why
we adopted this plan That is, we do
not want any choir quarrels You know
very we'll that in scores of churches
there has been perpetual contention in
that direction. The only church fight
that ever occurred under NV ministry
was over a melodeon. in my first settle
ment Have you never been In church
on the Sabbath day, and heard the
choir sing, and you said: That Is
splendid music" The next Sabbath
you were in that church. and there was
no choir at all. Why? The leader was
mad, or his assistants were mad. or
they were all mad together. The ma
jority of the choirs throughout the and
are not made up Of Christian people.
and th~ree-fourths OF the church fights
originate in the organ loft ] take that
back and say nine-tenthA A great
many OF our churches are dying Of
choirs
We want to rouse all our families 70
the duty Of sacred song. We want each
family of u congregation to tie a
singing school. Childish petulance,
obduracy and intractability would be
soothed if we had more singing in the
household, and then our little ones
would be prepared for the great con-
gregation on the Sabbath day, their
voices uniting with other voices in the
praises of the Lord. After a shower
there are scores of streams that come
down the mountain side with voices
ripping and silvery, pouring into one
river and then rolling in united
strength to the sea So, ! would have
all the families in our church send
forth the voice of prayer and praise.
pouring il into the great tide of public
worship that rolls on and on TO empty
into the great wide heart of God.
Never can we have our church sing as
il ought until our families sing as they
ought-
There will be 4 great revolution on
this subject in all our churches God
will come down by His spirit and rouse
up the old hymns and tunes that have
not been more than half awake since
the time of our grandfathers. The ST.
lent pcws in the church will break
forth into music, and when the con-
ductor takes his place on the Sabbath
day there will he a great host of voices
rushing into the harmony. My Chris
tian friends, il we have no taste for
this service on earth, what will we do
in Heaven, where they all sing. and
sing forever.
want tn rnpSe vnrn IN n ms n I'm 10 IN
Christian song that has never yet been
exhibited. Come. now! clear Your
throats and get ready for duty, or you
will never hear the end of this. I never
shall forget hearing a Frenchman sing
the MarseillaiSe on the Champs
Elysecs. Paris, Just before the battle
of Sedan in 1870. never saw such en-
thusiasm before or since As he sang
THAI national air. o! how the French
shouted! Have you ever in an English
assemblage heard n band play, God
save the Queeu?" II you have. you
know something about the enthusiasm
of a national air. Now. tell you tina,
these songs we sing sabbath by Sabbath
are the national airs of Jesus Christ
and of the Kingdom OF Heaven
and il you do not learn TO sing them
here. how do you ever expect to sing
the song of Moses and the Lamb? !
should not be surprised AT all if some
OF the best anthems Of Heaven were
made up of the best songs of earth
May God increase our reverence for
Christian psalmody, and keep us from
disgracing il by u Indifference and
frivolity. When Cromwell's army went
into battle. he stood Il the head of
them one day, and gave out the long
meter ~doxclogy TO the tune of the old
Hundredth." and that great host com
pany by company, regiment by regi-
ment battalion BY battalion. joined in
the doxology:
| Praise God from whom al dressings hov,
Pra Sc Him. all crcstures here below
Praise HIM above. We heavenly host,
Praise Father. SON and Holy Ghost
And while they sang they marched.
and while they marched they fought
and while they fought they 60, the
victory. q, men and women Of Jesus
/ Christ Lot Ms ~, into al ,rr .,,a;-..