The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-05-25
David, ono of the wisest and best of

music for nervous disorder
and cerebral disturbance. Aud DAVID
was rl9ht. Music is the mighJiest torce
III all therapeutics. It's results may no.
seen as suddenly as other forms of cure,
but 1t Is just as wonderful. You will
never Know how much suffering aud sor-
row music has assuaged aud healed. A
solder 10 the United States army sad
nat on the days the regmental band
played near the hospitals all sick and
wounded revived, and men who were so
iame they could not walk before got uD
aud won't out and sat III the sunshine,
aud those SO d'spiritcd that theV never
expected to get home began 20 p,rk
lh&lr baggage and ask about timr'a 1les
Oh steamboat and rail train.
ThcOdu5ruS. the emperor, wrathful a.
TIE behavior Of the people OF Antioch,
who Oh some sudden pr0voc0L!0n tore
down The statues of emperor and em-
press, resolved Sc Jeccly to punish them,
but he bishop, Knowing thai the en-
pernr hQi Il group Of BOYS sing to him
while ca.jrg at the table, taught the
boys Il pla'utiv2 song in which the PEG
pie 'amcn'ed their bad behavior, and The
| ki".,, un,icr The plLhos of the music,
c,i"i on: 1.-The city of Antioch is for.
%Ecn." THc rage Of Achilles was as
SnaGcd by harp. Asclcpiades swayed
K bctlious multiludcs by harp.
Alter &c battle Of Yorktown, when a
MUSICIAN was 10 suffer amDutatiOn, aud
before the days oi an;e sthclics, The
wounded artist called TO: musical in-
strumCnt and lost rot note during the
no minutes OF amputaL'on. FlliDpY
Palma, the great musician, confronted
Nv an tngry creditor, played 80 cnchart-
luglV before hi1l that the creditor for.
gave III" deb! ana gave The dob,Or 10
HuncaS more toappease other creditors.
An eminent physician of Olden time
CoEtcNdcd (Ot course, carrying our thcO-
rY too tAr) that all ailments Of the
'Orld could be cured by music. The
medical Iurnals never report their re-
coVo.Ics by this mode. Bus in what
twilight hour has many Il saint of God
&oIAc"d Il hcartache with IL hymn
,iummcd or sung Or played! EJelome OF
IfaIu1 sHng while burning at the stake.
over what keys OF piano or organ
has walked! Yea, in church
me nan has rolled peace over Il thous.
ana 81 the worried, perplcNod and ago
lH'i. While there are hymns ana
'Wic5 ready for the .jubilant, :hcrc Is 4
.l:h h}mnoloMY !Jr the sulreriog-" Ma
>ml' ani "Evcniide" and "Autumn |
Leaves" AMI "Comc Yc D!sconsolatc," |
WI whole portfolios and librcttos ot
'arS set ~ music.
All the wonderful triumph3 OF SurE2rv
r AL the new modes of success full |
.fCltm2n' OF ply ,ical aul mental di5Or.
E ,
TONS uNA spread abroad in medical |
nH"kS, and IL is high time that some of
"a" millions Of souls that have been
M'drAtcd by music, vocal and insMu-
'a"ai9l, lCt tho world know what power
t1iEu Is III sweet sound, whether rolling
!Ho:n lip CT lcapint from ii ;htcucd chord
"' ascending 'c0m ivorv key, Music is
Il "H,v"rsal language. At the foot Of
'la 'Eowcr Of Babel language was split
lH!p itagmCnts,nHVcr to be again put to-
&ei'cr but one thing was not hurt, and
that IS music, and IL is the same all tie
world OvCr,
last summcy il Russia At Watering
place we were greet eG as we entered Il
Great auditorium which WAS filled with
ttou3HNdS VI RusSjuns, whose Ian nla cc
!! 'u!'I i!ut understand any more thar
5"T can uN'i1 stand niue. Bat alter
the grand band had, ouI 0: compliul2n.
/" IL, played oar two great An cricau
ans d.! stepped Oh the platform and s ,iI |
T. ttiH hAndmaStCr, "RuSslln ali! BUS. |
san &li' and thea he tappc.l with his
H&iou on Lh0 music rack, and with Il
sD.""dor aNG majesty of power thai al.
most made us quail The full Eand p0uyo
orth t!cr natlonaNs s,anLhcm. They IN.
'cr5to0d ouc American music, anI we
their Russian music. lis a
iniNCr5a! language and so GOOD lur UNI
tcr>Nl cure.
| Si1uld not wonder ii in the day Of
uj.,mc it Should be found out tina.
more souls have been saved by music
han by preaching. | should not Won
ter II, out of the IN 900 rausomcd souls
hat JoMr lorrsaw before the throne of
'on, Il. least l30, 200 had been saved by |
."cc: song. Why Dies no. the church |
N tW,h take the hint? Heaven is the |
;rc't musical center of the universe,
he place o.! GOXologes and trumpets
'nH hirNS, and in preparation for that |
lace WG ought TO make more of music |
III earth.
The ban of music at Waterloo played |
nc iS|rraI OF The EOrCy.seCOnd High
andrrs back to their places, and sacred
music has returned many falLeriny
lo9t OF G"l into the Christian conflict
VI II as much determination aud dash as
fennI sons six Hundred" Who can
eli what has been accomplished by
,harlcs Wesley's 1000 hymns, or by
nc congregational singing Of his time,
yhlch could be heard two miles off?
v hen my dear friend Dio Lewis (gone
o his rest all too soon) conducted a
ampaiSn against drunkenness at the |
vest. and marshaled thousands of the |
lob!Cst women Of the land IN that mag
campaign, and whole nciGhbor.
foods and villages and cities shut up
heir Srog shops, do you know the chic { |
Weapon used? 1t was the song:
Nearer my God, to thee,
Nearer to thee.
hey sang il at tbs door of hun ndreds Of |
lquor saloons which had been open for |
ears, and either at the first charge of |
he ca npalGn or the second the saloon |
hut up. At the first verse of"Ncarer,