Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1893-05-26
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fPPnetber hut one thing was not nurt, anu
tIot is music. and it is the same all the Woriu
over Last summer in Russia al "aVoI3
nlace we were greeted as we entereu SIoaC
aanditori1m. which was filed WIN thousanus
~ Russians, whose language coulu ho'
understand any more than they couiu u"0'
stand mine. A.a o,,t NJ cono.
pliment to us, played our two great Amer,
can airs, I stepped on the platform ana salu
to the bandmaster: Russian ar hussian
air !" and then he tapped with ms oaton On
the music rack, and with splenuoi oil on
majesty OF power that almost mace US yuan
the full band poured forth their Nauonai
anthem. They understood our American
mnsic and we understood their RUSSIAN
music' II il a universal language, ana 30
good for universal cure.
should not won1er If In the day OF 1udg-
meut u snouIu De Iound out thar more SOUS
have been saved by music than by preaching.
should not wonder if out OF the one nun.
dred and forty and four thousand ransomeo
souls that John foresaw before the throne OF
God at least 13O, 900 had been saved by sweet
song Why does not the church on earth
take TIE hint2 Heaven is the great musical
center of the universe, the place OF doxGiJ'
gics and trumpets and harps, and in prepare
ton for that place we ought to make more OF
music on earth.
The bard of music at Waterloo played the
retreat of the Forty-second Highlanders bach
to their places, and sacred music has re-
turned many falteriDg host of God into the
Christian conflict with as much determine.
and dash as 1ennyson's "Six Hundred
Who can tell what has been accomplished BY
Charles Wesleys 1000 hymns. or by the con
ereeational singing Of his time, whlcn coulu
he heard two miles Off When my oeaI
friend Dio Lewis (gone to rest all 100 soonl
CONDUCTED a campaign against drunkenness
at the West, and marshaled thousands OF s .a
nohlest women of the land In tnat magnnl
cent campaign, and whole nelgnoornoou uS anu
iIIoe,ea and cities shut up their grog shops,
dovOu know the chief weapon usedf ~ wa
Nearer, my God: to Thee
Nearer to Thee.
Thav sang It at the door Of hundreds OF
| iid,,or saloons which had been open 1or
1ears, and either at the first charge OF the
rsmhaipn or the second the saloon shut up.
At the first verse Of Nearer, MY zoo, 70
Thee" the liquor dealers laughed, at ens
second verse they looked solemn, al tne tnlI ,II
t"orSa thew began to cry, and at the fourth
verse thew got down on their knees. You
saw thew opened their saloons again. zee
| them a
4 have hell shut up If only for week. Give
full swing to good gospel hymn, and 1t
would take the whole world for COO
But when in my text l see Saul declining
this medicine of rhythm and cadence and &C.
tually hurting javelin at the heart OF Davld,
the harpist, bethink myself OF the fact that
sin would like to kill sacred music. we are
not told what tune David was playing on the
harm that day, but from the character OF the
|
h senseless ditty, or a sweep of strings sug
FESTIVE of the melodrama, but elevated music
God given music, inspired music, renglous
music a whole heaven of it encamped under
n harpstring. No wonder that wicked Saul
hated it and could not abide the sound and
with all his might hurled an instrument OF
death at it.
know there are styles of music that sin
admires, and you hear it as you pass tne
casino or the dance hall, and the devil mas
stolen most of the fddles though am GLAD
The Ole Bulls have snatched up the charmed
Etrinps from their dissertation, but 1t is 1acl
That sin hasa iavelin for sacred sounds. LII
many churches the javelin of criticism mas
r killed the music, javelin flung from organ lon
,or from adjoining pew OF the supersents0lltVe'
Saul's iavelin aimed at Dav1ds harp. Ihou-
Sands of people so afraid they may not sing
scientifically, they will not sing at all, or sing
with such low tone that no one hears them
In many church the iavelin OF criticism
has crippled the harp of worship. Ii satan
| could silence all tho Sunday-school songS
and the HYMNS Of Christian worship, III
would gain his greatest achievement, Whe1
the millehnial song shall rise-and 1t is De
ING made feady-there will be sucn ron o
voices. such concentrated power OF strlngeS
and wind instruments, such majesty, suci
unaninnitv. such continental and hemisphere
| 10 that il
nossible to know where earth stops AM
heaven begins. Roll on, roll in, roll up, tho'
millennial harmony!
See also in my subject q rejected oppor
tunity of revenge. Why did not DAVID pici
I'M Saul's iavelin and hurl 1t back again
David had a skillful arm. He demonstrates
on another occasion he could weld Sing
and he could have easily picked up ina
iayelin. aimed it at Saul, the would-p
assassin. and left the foaming and dementet
monster as lifeless under the lavelln as n
had left Goliath under sling. ON, DaVlc
now is your chance. No, no. Men an
women with power of tongue or pen or nam
TO reply to an imbittered antagonist, Dette
initiate David and let the javelin lie at you
feet and keep the harp in your hand.
not strike back. Do not play the game
tit for tat -,
Gibhop. In his history, tells of Baiazet, tn
cantiye to the tent of Timur. He had a
temnted the massacre of Timur and his M
Timur said to him Had you vanquisnef
lam not ignorant Of the fate whlcn you
served for myself and my troops, but
dain to retaliate Your life and honor
secure, and shall express my grautno
God by my clemency to man. beauI'iu
Revenge on Christians tongue or pen
T. hand is inapt and more damage to the
| who EMPLOYS it than the one against W
It is EMPLOYED What A javelin hurlec
} YOU ard fallen at your feet and you not
Il hack again? Yes. l have tried ire
, I learned it from my father AMI have praI
iced If all nv life. and it WORKS well, ana
, ihe helm of God and javelins not picked
have conquered all my foes ani preacn
funeral sermons in honor OF most OF Vnenl
| The best thing you can do with ave
hurled at you is TO let 1t lie where IL oroplW
| br hang it up in your museum as curlos
5 The deepest wound made by laVail1 10
5 bv the sharp edge, but at the dull emu u
r handle to him who Yields 1t. l ieaVe :.
you to say which got the best Oh ''la' ne
I the palace Saul or David. uo
| See also in my subject that the lact Una
t man sometimes lodges is not against
courage. My text says that wneH 3aur
sailed him, "David avoided out OF LIS
l ence twice'-that is, when the !avenn
t flung he stepped out OF its direction ol
t this way or that-in other woros, nc IoNs
0 But all those who have read the iile VI -
8 ~ that he was not lacking in proWNi
na.,id nod faults but coWardice was not
of them. a .ho,,,
u When David, who was guess, about
9 ond a half feet high went out TO mees
- r7ho 1yoo guess about 10 teet NJ