Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-05-20
ACCOMAC G. b, VA. SATURDAY. MAY q
your illnesses /, you refdge to take the
medicine. twas not the fyxSt Of David's
prescription, but the fault OF Sauls OBJ

your illnesses /, you refdse to take the
medicine. twas not the ftyait Of Dsvids
prescription, but the fault OF Saul's OBJ
stinacy.
David, one OF tho wisest and best Of
ell ages, stands before us IN the text ad-
n1inistering music for nervous disorder
and cerebral disturbance, and David was
right. Music Is the mightiest force in
all therapeutics. It's results may not be
seen as suddenly as other forms Of cure,
but 1t Is Just as wonderful. You will
never know how much suffering and sor-
row music has assuaged and healed. A
soldier In the United States army said
that on the days the regimentsl band
played near the hospitals all the sick
and wounded revived, and men who were
so lame they could not walk before got
up and went out and sat In the sunshine,
and those 30 dispirited that they never
expected to get home began to pack their
baggage and ask about timetables on
steamboat and rail train.
Theodosius, the emperor, .wrathful at
the behavior Of the people Of Ansioch,
who, on some sudden provocation tore
down the statues Of emperor and en-
press, resolved severely TO punish them,
but the bishop, knowing that the emperor
had group Of boys to sing to him while
eating at the table, taught the boys a
plaintive song In which the people Ia
mented their bad behavior, and the king
under the pathos OF the music cried out,
THE city of Antioch is forgiven" The
rage of Achilles was assuaged by harp.
Asclepiades swayed rebellious multi
tudes by harp.
THE POWER OF MUSIC.
After the battle OF Yorktown, when q
musician was to suffer anputation, and
before the days Of antesthetios, the
wounded artist called for musical In
strument and lost not note during the
40 minutes Vt amputation. Filippo Pal
ma, the great musician, confronted by
an angry creditor, played SO enchanting
ly before him that tho creditor forgave
the debt and gave the debtor 10 guineas
more to sppease other creditors.
An eminent physician OF olden time
commended (ot course carrying our theory
too far that all ailments Of the world
could be cured by music. The medical
journals ne- or report their recoveries by
this mode. But In what twilight hour has
many saini Of God solaced heartache
with hymn hummed or sung oa playedl
Jerome Of Prague sang while burning at
the stake. Over what keys Of plano or
organ consolation has walked. Yea, In
church one hymn has rolled peace over a
thousand Of the worried, perplexed and
agonized.
While therA are hymns and tunes ready
for the jubilant, there Is rich hymnol-
ogy for the suffering-"Naomi' and
"Eventide" and Autumn Leaves" and
Come, ye disconsolate," end whole port
folios and hbrettos Of tears set to music.
All the wonderful triumphs Of surgery
and all the new modes of successful
treatment of physical and mental dis
orders are discussed In medical conven-
tions and spread abroad In medical BOOKS,
and 1t is high time that some Of the mil
| lions Of souls that have been snediceted
by music, vocal and instrumental. let the
world know what power there isin sweet
sound, whether rolling from lip or leap
ing from frightened chord or ascending
from. Ivory key.
Music Is universal language. At the
foot of the Tower Of Babel language was
split into fragments never to be again
put together but one thing was not hurt,
and that Is music, and 1t Is the same all
the world over. Last summer In Russia
OF watering place we were greeted as
we entered great auditorium, which
was filed with thousands of Russians,
whose language I could not understand
any more than they could understand
mine.
But after the grand band had, out Of
compliment to us, played ourTwo great
American airs, stepped on the platform
and said 70 the bandmsster. Russian
siri Russian arr and then be tapped
with his baton on the music rack. and
with a splendor and majesty Of power
that almost made us quail tbs full band
poured forth their national anthem.
they understood our American music,
and we understood their Russian music.
It Is universal language and 30 good
for universal cure
l should not wonder il tn the day of
Judgment IL should be found out that
more souls have been saved by music
than by preaching. Ishould not wonder
If out of the one hundred and forty and
four thousand ransomed souls that John
foresaw before the throne of God at
least 100000 had been saved by sweet
song. Why does not the church on
earth take the hints Heaven Is the great
musical center of tho universe, the place
Of doxologes and trumpets and harps,
and In preparation for that place we
ought to make more Of music on earth.
The band of music at Waterloo played
the retreat Of the Forty-second High
landers back to their places, and sacred
music has returned many faltering
host Of God into the Christian conflict
with as much determination and dash as
TennysonF6 "Si1 Hundred" Who can
tell what has been accomplished by
Charles Wesley's 1000 hymns, or by the
congregational singing of his time, which
could be heard two miles off? When my
dear friend Dio Lewis {gone to rest all
too soon) conducted campaign against
drunkenness at the west, and marshaled
thousands of the noblest women of the
land in that magnificent campaign, and
whole neighborhoods and villages and
cities shut up their grog shops, do you
know tho chief weapon used? Twas the
song:
Nearer, INF God, to thee
Nearer to thee.
They sang it at the door OF hundreds Of
liquor saloons which had been open for
years, and either at the first charge Of
the campaign o, the second the saloon
shut up. At the first verse Of Nearer,
My God, to Thee the liquor dealers
LAUGHED. at the second verso they looked