Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-05-31


0,Uru or ascending from ivory KEY.
nusic Is universal language. Ar tb.
Ioot OF the Tower of Babel Ianon,ga u,as
,P1., INTO fragments never to be- again put
.Sethef, but one thing was not hurt. anj
lhat s music, and 1t is the same ali the vorII
yer. Last summer in Russia at a watering
PIaEe We were greeted as We entered n o,raaf
anu1tor1um, which was filed with thousands
vi russians, whose language could Aot
understand any more than they could under
stand nina N uei
But after the grand band had out OF com
putnent TO US, played our two great Ameri-
can alrs, stepped on the platform and said
70 tho bandmaster Russian air Russian
ar and then he tapped with his baton on
INC music rack, and with splendor and
majesty o. power that almost male Us quail
tho iud bani poured forth their National
tnth-Tu- rusy understood our American
Adsic. and We SaderstooJ thsir Russian
nGs;a II 10 universal L.nxuSvs .ua a,
<ooh anx universal anrA
should NOT wonder /; IN ths day o: iu To-
nent 1t should be found out that more souls
nave been saved by music than by preaching.
should not wonder if out OF the ons hun
ured and forty and four thousand ransomed
souls that John foresaw before the throne of
God at least 130 900 had been saved by sweet
song. Why does not the church on earth
taSe the hlntT Heaven is the great musical
center OF the universe, the place Of doxolo-
gies and trumpets and harps, and in prepara-
music on earth
The band Of music at Waterloo PLAYED ths
retreat OF the Fsrty-second Highlander5 back
TO the'r places, and sacred music has re-
turned many d iast5.s.zss host OF God into the
Christian conflict with as much determina-
and dash as TennySons six Hundred :"
VINO can tell what has been accomplished by
CharieS Wesleys 1000 hymns, or by the con-
gregational singing of his time which could
be heard two miles of? When my dear
friend Do Lewis (gons to rest all too soon)
conducted a campaign against drunkenness
81 the West, and marshaled thousands OF the
noolest women of the Land In that magniti-
cent campaign, and whole nsighborhoods and
villages and cities shut up their grog shops
you know the chief weapon used? 1t was
the song.
Nearer, my God. to Thee,
Neirer to Thee.
rhey SANG It at the door of hundreds OF
liquor SALOONS which had been open for
years, and either at the first charge OF the
! ;ampaign or the second the saloon smut up
At the first versa OF Nearer, Ny Goi, to
Thee" the liquor dealers laughed, at the
second verse tney looked solemn, ut the thLSI
verse they began to cry, and at the fourth
verse they got down on their knees. You
say they opened their saloons agaIn. Yes,
'ome OF them did. But it Is great thing to
nave hell shut up II only Tor a week. Give
rdu swing to good gospel hymn, and it
would take the whole world ior.Goi!
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this medicine of rhythm and cadence and &C.
Eually hurting jayelin at the heart of David,
Inc harpist, Dethlnk myself OF the fact that
SIN would ike to kill sacred music. We are
not told what tune David was playing on the
harp that day, but from the character OF the
man We know 1t was not a'crazy ma irigal, or
a senseless ditty, or u sweep OF strings sug
sestiye OF the melodrama, out elevated music,
God given music, inspired music, religious
music, q whole heaven of 1t encamped under
/ a WOQl9r
hated 1t 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 ain
admires, and you hear it Gs you pass the
casino or the dance hall, and the aevI has
stolen most of the nddleS, though an glad
the Ole Bulls have snatched up the charmed
strings from their DESPERATION, but il IS a fact
that sin mas a javelin Tor sacred sounds. In
many churches the Jayelln OF criticism has
killed the music, jRvelin flung from organ lott
or from ad joining pew OF the representative.
Sauls javelIn aimed at Dayids harp. Thou
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 Il church the iayeiin OF criticism
nas crippled the harp of worship. Ii satan
could silence all the Sun1ay-schoOl songs
and the hymns OF Christian worship, he
would gain MS greatest achievement. When
the mlllennIal song shall ri5e-and II Is be-
ing made reaiy-there will be such roll Of
voices, such u concentrated power OF StrInged
and wind Instruments, such majesty, such
llnanlmity, such continental and HEMISPHERE
md planetary accla nation, that it Will De i'm
lpossIble to know where eartn stops and
laeaven begins. Roll on, roll in, roll up, thou
nillennial harmony!
See also in my subject a rejected oppor-
| unity OF revenge. Why did not David PICK
lap SGuls iaveiin and hurl II Dack again?
David had d skillful arm. He demonstrated
on another occasion he could WELD sling,
and he could have easily picked up that
llayelin, aimed it at Saul, the wOu!d-oe
assassin, and left the foaming and denentei
monster as lifeless under the iayelin ne
had left Goliath under a sling. On, David,
now is your chance. No, no. Men and
women with power OF tongue or pen or hand
Ito reply to an imbittered antagonist, better
initiate David and let the iayeiin lie ut your
feet and keep the harp in your hand. Do
not strike back Do not play the game Of
tit for tat.
Gibbon, in his history, tells Of Bajazet, tn.
great Moslem General who was brought q
captive to the tent of Timur. He had at
tempted the massacre of Timur and his men.
Timur said to him Had you vanquished US
| am not ignorant of the late which you re-
served for myself and my troops, Dut 1 dis
dan to retaliate. Your life and honor are
secure, and 1 shall express my gratitude to
God by my clemency to man." Beautiful
Revenge on Christians tongue or pen or
Iand Is inapt and more damage to the one
who employs it than ths one against whom
1t is employed What jayelin hurled at
you and fallen at your feet and you not hurI
It back again2 Yes. 1 have tried the plan
learned it from my father and have prac-
ticed il all my life. and it works well, and by
the help OF God and iayelins not picked up 1
nave conquered all my foes and preacne l
funeral sermons in honor OF most OF them
The best thing you can do with javeltn
hurled at you is 10 let 1t lie where it dropped
| han nm in m AS a
The deepest wound made by q javalln Is not
by the sharp edge, Tut at the dull end OF the
handle to him who Yields it. leave it to
you to say which got the oest OF that 1ght in
the palace-Saul or David.
See also in my subject that the fact that a
| man sometimes dodges Is not against his
courage. My text says that when saul as
saried iIilu, --Ss--riid aTrctt=i oT1t % hsiI- -
| ence twice'-tnat is, when the lavelln wals
flung, he stepped out OF its direction or bent
! this way or that-in other words, hs lodged.
But all those who have read the lie Of David
know that ne was not lacking in prowess.
David had faults, but cowardice was not one
Of them
When David who was, / guess, about four
> and half feet high, went out to meet the
giant who was, guess, about 10 feet nigh,
, it was big undertaking, and the inequali-
ties of the struggle were so great that 1t
struck the giants idea of the ludtcrous, and
J he suggested to the little fellow that he would
! -"Cbme to me, and l will give thy flesh unto
the fowls of the air and to the beasts OF the
! deld."
When David went out to meet that giant
I and conquered him, he demonstrated, as he
: did on other occasions, his courage But
I'm so glad that when Saul flung that iaveltn
, David lodged it. or the chief work OF his life
would never have been done. What a lesson
Ibis Is to those who go into useless danger
: and expose their lives or their repstations OF
their usefulness unnecessarily. When duty
, demands, go ahead, though all earth and hel
r oppose Dodge Eot one inch from the righ
, position. But when nothing is involved stcI
! back or step aside.
: Why stand in .ho way Of perils that yor
! can avoid? Go not into qui1otic battles tC
fight windmflls. You will be Of more use K
the world and the church as an active Chris
tian man than as a target for iavelins. Their:
are Christians always in ight, II they gC
into churches they fight there. II they 20
T into presbyteries or conferences or consocis
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