Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-06-30

dren in that capture, went among the Indf-
ans, and there were many white children in
line. but SO long a time had passed the moth
or could not tell which were hers until She
began to sing the old nursery song, and her
two children Immediately rushed up, shout
ing Mammal - "Mammam Yes. there IS
an Immortality in nursery song. Hear IT.
all Won mothers, an Immortality OF power to
rescue and save.
What an occasion that must have been III
Washington December II, 1850, when Jennie
Lind sang "Home, Sweet Home, the author
of those words. John Howard Payne, seated
before her. She had rendered her other IA
yorite songs 'Casta Diva and her Flute
Song" with fine effect but when she struck
ssHome. Sweet Home John Howard Payne
rose under the power, and President Fillmore
and Henry Clay and Daniel Webster and the
whole audience rose with him. Awning
connected with home ransacks our ent're
nature with a holy power, and songs tnaS
get well started in the nursery or ~ inc
family hearth roll on after the lips that sung
them are forever silent and the ears that nrse
heard them forever cease to hear.
Be careful how you treat the birds. Re
member they are Gods favorites, and II you
offend them YOU offend Him. He is so fond OF
their voices that there are forests where ior a
hundred miles no human foot has ever trod
and no human ear has ever listened.
Put of startling colors, which frighten inc
winged songsters into silence or nlgnt, auo 1
put on your more sober attire and move
noiselessly into the woods farther ana Ia
tber from the main road and have no CONVEX
ration. for many a concert in and ont OF doors
has been ruined by persistent takers, anu
then sit down a messy bank
Where a wild scream with headlong shock
{ mes brawling down a bed OF rock.
And after perhapsa half an hour OF intense
| solitude there will be tap of beak on u
tree branch far up, sounding like the tap OF
| musical baton and then first there VIII Do
solo. followed by duet or quartet, ana alIer,
ward by doxologies in all the tree tops anu
amid all the branches, and if you nave
| Bible along with YOU and you can WlhOul
rustling the leaves, turn to the one nun,
| bred and forty-eighth Psalm OF David ana.
read. praise the Lord, beasts and all catlle'
creeping things and flying fowl, ana theh
turn over quietly to my text ana reao' by
| theyn shall the fowls Of the heaven nave
their habitation. which sing among thS
branches" or if under the power OF 'le p il'
voices YOU are transported. as wneh Doc'o.
Morgan played so powerfully on tne organ a.
| ST. Johns that Richard Cecil said ne was III
s1cS blessed bewilderment he could not find i'll
| his Bible the first chapter OF lsaiah' though
he leafed the book over and over ana you
! shall be so overcome with forest harmony
| that Won cannot find the Psalms OF DaNlu'
never mind, for God will speak 10 you -
| miohtily il will make no difference whe'hei
Won hear His voice from the printed page VI
| the vibrating throat OF one OF Ills piuinou
| creatures i o,,, 81
while This simmer more than usual OUT OF
doors let ms have what my text suggests. an
ont of doors religion. what business Ia'
! David with all the advantages OF costly rehS-
! IONS service and smoking incense on the AZ
| far 70 ne listening to the chantresses among
! the tree branches? All he wanted 70 llaAo
| bi1oeaIf and all who should come after MN
| more alert and more worshplui anna INC
I sweet sounds and beautiful slShts o.
| the natural world. There Is an oi1 chuIcn
| tba4 neads TO be rededicated 1t IS older thah
- pauI's mr. st. Peters or st. Mark or 81.
! Sonbia's or St. Isaac's II is the cathedral oil
notnre That is the church in which the ser
vices Of the millennium will be held; INC
bnildincs fashioned out Of stone and hrlck
| and mortar will not hold the people;
Aoain the mount of Olives Will be inc
! nulpit. Again the Jordan Will be the
| baptistrv. Again the mount ans VIII Do
| the galleries. Again the SKIES VIII D9
tbe biue ceiling. Again the sunrise Will
be the front door and the sunset the Dafh
| door Of that temple. Again inc
clouds will be the upholstery and the
morning mist the incense. Again ths
trees will he the organ loft where
~tbe fowls of heaven have their haD-
itation. which sing among the
branches" ST. Francis d'Assisi preached
sermon to birds and pronounced benedic-
ZION upon them. but all birds preach to us,
and their benediction is almost supernaL
In the time Of Edward " no one was
allowed TO own a swan except he were
| ting's son or had considerable estate. Through
loo or 200 years Of life that bird was said
never TO utter anything like music until Its
last moment came. and then lifting lis
crested beauty il would pour forth
some of almost matchless thrill re-
sounding through the groves. And
en- although the struggles Of life may DC
too much for US and We may find it hard to
sinc at all. when the last hour comes to you
and me. may there be a radiance from above
and a glory settling round that snail enable
MS TO utter a song on the wings OF which we
shall monnt TO where the music never ceases
and the raptures never die.
ssyvbat IS that mother" "The swan my love-
He l. floating down from his naive grove.
No loved one. no nesting nigh
Heis atng down by hiIns IL 70 ole ,
Death tlarkens his and unplumea ms "ine''
We; the sweetest song IS the last ne SINGS
Live so nv child that when death snaii conn.,
Swanlike and sweet, It may wait thee home