Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-05-16


and only here and there any thing is heard,
and nine-te1lths of the holy power is
destroyed; and the dumb devil, as he
flies away, says, Il could not keep Isaac
Watts from writing that hymn, and |
could not keep Lowell Mason from COM
posing the tune to which it is set, but
smote into silence or half silence the lips
from which it would have spread abroad
to bless nefghborhoods and cities, and
then mount the wide open heavens. !"
Give the long meter doxology the full
support Of Christendon, and those four
lines would take the whole earth for God.
TIE POWER OF Song.
During the cotton famine in Lanca-
shire. England, when the suffering was
something terrific. as the first wagon
load Of cotton rolled in, the starving
people unlocked the horses and drew
the load themselves, singing. until All
Lancashire joined in with triumphant
voices, their cheeks sopping with tears,
Praise God from whom all blessings
flow" When Commodore Perry, with
his warship, the Mississippi. lay off the
coast of Japan, he bombarded the shores
with "Old Hundred, played by the
marine band. Glorious 'fOld Hundred"
composed by William Franc. of Ger
many. In q war prison, at ten o'clock
at night, the poor fellows far from home
and wounded and sick and dying, one
prisoner started the ''Old Hundred Dox-
oloSy," and then a score of voices joined,
then All the prisoners on all the floors
took up the acclaim until the building,
from foundation to topstone, fairly
quaked with the nelodious ascription
A British man-of-war, lying off for
eign coast, heard voice singing that
doxology, and Immediately guessed, and
guessed Alright, that there was an Eng
lishman in captivity to the Mohamme-
dams; and in the small boats the sailors
rowed to shore and burst into guard
house and set the captive free. don't
know what tune the trumpets of resur-
rection shall play, but it may be the dox-
ology which is now sounding across
Christendom. How much more hearty
we would be III our songs, and how
easily we could drive back the dumb
devil from all our worshiping assem-
blages, if we could realize that nearly
all our hymns have stirring history.
That glorious hymn, "Stand Up for
Jesus" was suggested by the last words
Of Dudley Tying, who was dying from
having his right arm torn off in
machine That hymn, '.What
a Friend We Have in Jesus" heard
through telephone, converted an OBJ
durate soul '.Shall We Gather at the
River was Il hymn first sung in our
Brooklyn Prospect park, at the chill
dren's May anniversary. and then started
to encircle the world. where Is Ny
Wandering Boy Tonight" is a song that
has saved hundreds of dissipated young
men
Tom, the drummer boy in the army,
was found .ying, and an officer asked
him what was the matter! "Oh," he
said, Il had dream last night. My
sister died ten years ago, and my moth
er never was herself again and she died
soon after. Last night | dreamt | was
killed in battle, and that mother and
sister came down to meet me-" After
the next battle was over, some one
crossing the field heard voice that he
recognized as the voice of Tom, the
drummer boy, singing Jesus, Lover of
My Soul But at the end of the first
verse the voice became very feeble,
and at the end of the second verse it
stopped, anG they went up and found
Tom, the drummer boy, leaning against
a stump and dead.
That hymn, ''Oh. for Thousand
Tongues to Sing" was suggested to
Charles Wesley by Peter Boiler, who.
after his conversion, said. Il had bet
ter keep silent about it," No" said
Wesley IF you had ten thousand
tongues you had better use them for
Christ. And then that angel of
hymnology penned the words:
oh, for a thousand tongues to sing
My dear Redeemer's praise,
The glores of my God and king
The triurnphs of his grace.
Jesus, the name that calms cur fears.
That bids our sorrows cease
IT'S music in the sinners ears.
IT'S life and health and peace.
While much of the modern music is
a religious doggerel, a consecrated non
sense, Il sacred tomfoolery. would like
to see some great musician Of our time
lift the baton and marshal Luther's
Judgment Hymn, Yarmouth, Dundee,
Ariel, Brattle Street, Uxbridge. Pleyel's
Hymn, Harwell Antioch Mount Pts
gah and Coronation, with Il few regi-
ments of mighty tunes made in our own
time, and storm Asia, Africa and Amer
lea for the kingdom Of God. But the
first thing to do is to drive out the dumb
devil of the text from all our churches
PERSONAL MATTER.
Do not, however, let Us lose ourselves
r
had our lives sometimes touched by the
evil spirit of the te1t-this awful dumb
devil. We had just one opportunity of
saying a Christian word that might have
led a man or woman into a Christian
life. The opportunity was fairly put
before u.s. The word of invitation or