Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-05-17

CS49& " - 49, &C teok0 u010ul IL n<x<a %
with 'sOzd Huildrsd,s played By the
marine band Glorious '-0d Hundroi'
conpassd by William Frnnc, Of Ger
many. In . war prison- 1T ten O'Clock
1t uaxht the poor fellows far from homo
and wounded and SICK and dying, one
prlsoaer started the ''oid Hundred Dox-
ology.- and then score OF voices joined.
thn al tbs prisoners en- all the floors
took mp the acclaim until the building.
from foandzszoa 70 topstdO. fairly
quakea with the malodio2s sscrIpkloa-
A British nlan-of-war. lying on fer
egn coast. heard voice singing that
doxoiogy. aud immediately guessed, AID
gusssod Alright, that there was an Eng
hshnAn in captivity 70 the NohamIns-
rowed to shore and burst into . guard
hoass and ct the captive free. l don't
know what tnne the trsmpefs Of rcsur-
rection shall play. bat 1t msy be thedox-
ology which il now sounding across
Christendom. How much more hearty
we would DO IN our songs. and how
easily We could drive back the dumb
devil from ell our worshiping Assem-
bisgss, II We could realize that nearly
al our hymns have stirring history.
That glorious hymn. Stand Up for
Jesus" was suggested by tho last words
of Dudley Tying. who was dying from
having hh right arm torn OF in .
thsasaing machine. Tha: hymn, .'What
Q Friend We. Have In jesus" heard
through . telephone. converted an OBJ
dursse coal. s'Shall We Gather 1t tho
River was . hymn FIRST sung in our
Brooklyn Prospect park, ct the chill
dren's May anniversary. and then started
to encircls the world. Where Is Ny
waaAsxing Boy Tonight" Is song that
has saved hundreds Of dissipsted young
men.
Tom, the drummer boy IN the army,
was found crying, and N o13cer asked
him what was tho matter! oh" he
sid. II had : dream Last night My
sister died TN pears ESQ, and my moth
or never was herself again and she died
soon AMER. Lest night ! dreamt was
killed n battle, and that mother and
sistss cane down to meet me-" After
tho ncxt haetls was over. some ono
CRUISING the fsn heard voice that he
recognized As tho voice Of Tom, the
drum1nea: boy. singing "Jesus, Lover Of
Ny Soul" But at tho end Of the first
verse tho voice became very feeble.
and ct tho end Of ths second verss it
stopped. and they went up and found
Tom. the drummer boy, leaning against
n stuunn auh dead
That hymn, ''Oh, for . Thousand
Tongues to Sing was suggested to
Charles Wesley by Peter Boiler. who,
after his conversion, said, II had bet
ter keep silent about it." "No," said
Wesley, s'if yoa had ten thousand
tongues you had better use them for
Christ" And then that angel Of
hymnology psnned tho words:
oh. for . shoneonA toaRues % dag
Ny dear Rsaeemer's praise,
h s3ories Il my 0ed and king.
The triumphs Of His gyacA.
Jesus. TIE name that cslns our fears.
That bids our sorrows osases q
Tis musio In the sinuers eArs.
Tb life and health ana DeAcA
While much Of tho modern music II
. religious doggsxsl, consecrated non
ssnse, . sacred tomfoolerH I would hke
TO SO some great musician Of our time
lift tho baton and maEshal Luthers
Judgment Hymn, yarmouth, Dundee,
Arisl, Bxsttle Street, Uxbridge, Pleyel's
Hymn, EArwcN, Antioch, Mount Pts
gah and Coronation, with . few regi-
meats Of mighty tunes made in our own
time. and storm Asia, Africa and Amer
lea for the kingdom Of God. But tho
6rst thing 10 do Is to drive ont the dumb
devil Of the tsxt from all our churches.
4 PERSONAL NATTR.
Do MOI, hswsver, let as lose ourselves
in generalities. Not ono Of rs but has
had our lives sometimes touched By the
evil Spirit cf To text-this awful dumb
devil. We had Just enc opportunity Of
saying Christian word that might have
led . man or wemaa into . Christian
life. Tho opportunity was fairly put
before us. The word e invitation OF
consolation or warning came to the in
side ga&o Of the mouth, but there it
halted. Some hindering power locked
the jaws Together 70 that they did not
open. The tongue lay dat and still in
tho bottom q the mouth a. though
struck with paralysis We wore mute.
Tho1gh 0sd had given us the physio-
logical Apparatus for speech, and our
lungs wore Allsd with cir which, BY the
command OF cur win, could hsve made
the laEyngesi muscles nsvc and the vocal
organs vibra4e, We were wickedly and
fatally silent. For aIl'time and eternity
We missed our chance.
o. II vs. prayer meeting, and tho
service was thrown open for prayer and
remarks, and there was sdead halt-ev-
erything silent - graveyard at mid
night Indeed it was graveyard and
midnight An embarrassing pause took
place that put wet blanket on all the
meeting. Men, bold enough on business
exchange o. in worldly circles, shut
Their syss - though they Wsrs praying
h silence. bat they were not praying at
all. They vere busy hoping somebody
else would DO his duty. The women
flushed under the awful pause and mado
their fans more rapidly hutter. Some
brother with no cold coughed, BY that
sound trying to fill up the time. and the
meeting was slain. But what killed it?
tho dumb devil.
This u the way account for the fact
that the stupidest places on earth are
Some prayer meetings. do not see how
man keeps any grace il he regularly
attends them They are spiritual re-
frisesstora Religion kept on ice. How
MANY of us have Loaf occasions of use-
fuinsss' In a sculptor's studio stood