The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-05-18

INTO silence or half silence the lips from
which it would have spread abroad to
bless neighborhoods and cities, and
then mount the wide-open heavens"
Give the longmeter doxology the full
support of Christendom, and those four
lines would take the whole earth for
God.
During tho 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
aow." When Commodore Perry, with
his war ship, the Mississippi, lay off the
coast of Japan, he bombarded the shores
with "Old Hundred" played by the ma
rine band. Glorious "0ld Hundred"
composed by William Franc, OF Ger
many. In war prison, at 10 o'clock at
night, the poor fellows far from home
and wounded and sick and dying,
one prisoner started the "Old
Hundred Doxology," and then
score of voices joined, then all the pris-
oners on all the floors took up the ac1
claim until the building, from founda-
ton to top stone, fairly quaked with the
melodious ascription. A British man
of-war, lying off a foreign coast, heard
voice singing that doxology, and i'm
mediately guessed, and guessed Alright,
that there was an Englishman in cap
tivity to the Mohammedans; 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 trumphets of resurrection shall
play, but it may be the d GEOLOGY which
is now sounding across Christendom.
How much more hearty we would be in
our songs, and how easily we could
drive back the dumb devil from all
our .worshiping assemblages If we
could realize that nearly all our hymns
have stirring history. That glorious
hymn "Stand up for Jesus" was sug-
gested by the last words OF Dudley
Tying, who was dying from having his
right arm torn off by threshing ma
chine. That hymn "What Friend we
have in Jesus, heard through tele-
phone, converted an obdurate soul.
''Shall we Gather at the River?" was a
hymn first sung in our Brooklyn Pros
Dcct Park, at the children's May ami
versary, and then started to encircle
the world. Where is My Wandering
Boy To-night?" is a song that has saved
hundreds Of dissipated young men.
Tom, the drummer boy, was found
crying, and an officer asked him
what was the matterl "0r" he said,
81 had dream last night. Ny
sister died ten years ago, and my
mother was never herself again, and
she died soon after. Last night l
dreamt l was killed in battle, and that
mother and sister came down to meet
me-" After the ne xt battle was over
some one crossing the field heard avoice
that he recognized as the voice Of Tom,
the drummer boy, singing Jesus, Lover
of my Soul" Blu I at the end of the first
verse the voice became very feeble, and
at the end Of the second verse 1t stopped,
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llama thu romo TIM, ca,ms our fears
That bIds our sorrows cease;
'Tis music in the sinners ears,
Tis life and health ana peace.
While much Of the modern music In a
religious doggcrel. consecrated non
sence, a sacred imbecility, would like
To see some great musician of our time
lift the baton and marshal Luthers
Judgment Hymn, Yarmouth, Dundee,
Ariel, Brattle Street. Uxbr ide, Pleyers
Hymn, Harwell, Antioch, Mount Pisgah
and Coronation, with few regiments
of mighty tunes made in our own time,
and storm Asia, Africa and America for
the kingdom of God. But the first
thing TO do is to drive out the dumb
devil of the text from all of our
churches.
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