Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-09-26

| hymn, Out plunge III tuhb tlo Wv"
care may be brought out OF you. IL
also aroused 10 action. singing
church is always triumphant church!
II congregation is silent during the
exercises. or partially silent, II Is the
silence OF death. II. when the hymn 10
given out, you hear the iaiut hum OF
+, here and there q father and mother IN
Israel, while the vast majority are BE
lent that minister OF Christ whoi is pre-
siding needs 10 have very strong con-
stitutiOn II he does not get the chi!is.
| He needs not only the grace OF God,
but nerves like whalebone. II
is amazing how some peo'
ple, who have voice enough 10
discharge all their duties In the world.
when they come into the house oil Coo
have no voice to discharge this duty:
, | really believe that II the church OF
Christ could rise up and sing that
where we have hundred souls orongni
, into the kingdom q! Christ there woN!G
be thousand.
But must now speak OF some OF the
obstacles in the way Of the advancement
of this sacred music: and the first Is
that IL has been impressed into the
service OF superstition. | am Tar IRON
believing that music ought always TO DE
positively religious. Refined art mas
opened places where music has heen
secularized. and lawfully So The
I drawing room. the musical club The
orchestra. the con, ert by qualification
of pure taste. and the production OF
harmless amusement and the improve
ment OF talent, lave become great
forces in the advancement Of our clvli-
iZation. Music has as much right 10
laugh in Surrey garden as 1t bias 10
pray in ST. Paul's. In the kingdom o.
nature. we hare tie glad fling OF the
wind as we'll as the long metre psalm
of the thunder. liut while all this 10
so. every observer has noticed that this
art. which God intended for the i'm
provement OF the car, and the voice,
and the head, and the heart. has often
! been impressed into the SCI .ce Of false
religions.
Four spirits now do all the singing:
But how long would heaven be quiet
How long: 'Hallelujah" would cry
some glorifed Methodist from under
the alter. praise the Lord!' would
sing the martyrs from among Inc
thrones. Thanks be unto God, VINO
giveth us the vicorym great multi
tude of redeem,,i spirits would cry
| Myriads OF the 'es coming into the
harmony. and &c one hundred and
forty and four ;luusand breaking iortn
| into one accumu:,' on. Stop that LOUD
singing. Stop. . no, they can not
hear me. You !ght as well try 70
drown the thundlr Of the sky, or beat
+, in heaven has resolved to do its own
singing. Alas! that we should nave
, tried on earth that which they can mol
do in heaven. and. instead OF joining all
our voices in the praise OF the most
high God. delegating perhaps to un'
consecrated m n and women this mos'
delightful service
Now. In this church, we have resolv-
ed upon the plan Of conducting the mu-
sic by organ and cornet. we 90 II Iot
two reasons. One Cne'
by throwing the whole response
bility upon the mass OF the people max
ing the great multitude the choir, we
might rouse Lore heartiness. The
congregation coming on the Sabbath
day feel that they cannot delegate TINS
part OF the great service co anyone else,
and SO they the ;nselves assume 1t. we
have had q .lorious congregational
singing here. People have come many
miles to hear y They are not sure
about the PREF ring, but they can al
: WAYS depend or the singing. We have
/ heard the sound coming up like the
voice OF many waters" but it will be
done at q better rate after awhile, when
we shall realize the height and the
depth and thu immensely OF this priv.
lege.
want to reuse you to unanimity IN
Christian song that has never yet been
exhibited, Come. now! clear your
throats and ret ready for this duty, or
YOU will never hear the end OF this. i
never shall forget hearing Frenchman
sing the "Marseillaise" on the Champs
Elysees Paris, just before the battle OF
Sedan in 1870. never saw such en-
thusiasm before or since. AS he sang
that national air, o! how the French
men shouted! Have you ever in an
English assemblage heard Q band play
''God Save the Queen?" II you have,
YOU know something about the enthusi-
OF national air. Now, tell you that
these songs we sing, Sabbath by Sab
bath, are the national airs OF Jesus
Christ and the kingdom Of heaven. and
II YOU do not learn to sing them here.
| how do YOU expect to sing the song OF
Moses and the Lamb? should not be
surprised at all IL some Of the hest an
thems OF heaven are made up OF some
Of the best songs Of earth. May God
increase our reverence for Christian
psalmody. and keep us from disgracing
it by our indifference and frivolty.
When Cromwell's army went into bat
tie, he stood at the head OF them one
day, and gave out the long meter dox-
ology to the tune Of the 'Old Hun
dredth," and that great host, company
by company, regiment, battalion by bat
talon, joined in the doxology:
PRISE God from whom all blessings flow,
/ I'm oil helOW.