The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-05-17

RAOP Va NoAouANC uko WILL wv hOSaAAA5
toward healing your illness If you re-
fuse to take the medicine. 1t was not
the fault of David's prescription, but
the fault of Saul's obstinacv. David,
one of the wisest and best of all ages,
stands before us in the text administer
ing music for nervous disorder and GER
ebral disturbance. And David was
right. Music is the mightiest force in
all therapeutics. Its results may not
be seen as suddenly as other forms OF
cure, but it is just as wonderful. You
will never know how much suffering
and sorrow music has assuaged and
healed. A soldier in the United States
army said that on the days the regi-
mental band played near the hospital
all the sick and wounded revived, and
the men who were SO lame they could
not walk before, got up and went out
and sat in the sunshine, and those so dis
pirited that they never expected to get
home began to pack their baggage and
ask about time tables on steamboat
and rail train, Theodosins, the EN-
peror, wrathful at the behavior of the
people of Antioch, who, on some sud.
den provocation, tore down the statues
OF emperor and empress, resolved So
verely to punish them, but the bishop.
knowing that the emperor he'd a group
of boys sing to him while eating at the
table, taught the boys a plaintive song
in which the people lamented 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
tude by harp. After the battle OF
Yorktown when musician was to suf
fer amputation, and before the days Of
anesthetics, the wounded artist called
for musical instrument and lost not q
note during the forty minutes of am
putation. Filippo Palma, the great
musician, confronted by an angry
creditor, played so enchantingly before
him that the creditor forgave the debt
and gave the debtor ten guineas more
to appease other creditors An eminent
physician of olden times contended (oi
course, carrying out theory too far) thai
all ailments of the world could be cured
by music. The medical journals never
report their recoveries by this mode
But in what twilight hour has many Q
saint of God solaced heartache
with hymn hummed or sung
or playedl Jerome, Of Prague.
sang while burning at the stake,
Over what keys of piano organ
consolation has walked. Yea, in church
one hymn has rolled peace over thou,
sand of the worried, pcrplexed and
'agonized. While there are hymns and
times ready for the jubilant, there is Q
rich hymnology for the suffering
Naomi" and "Eventide' and Autumn
Leaves" and "Come, Ye Disconsolate, y
and whole portfolios and ibrettos OF
tears set TO music All the wonderful
triumphs of surgery and all the new
modes of successful treatment of physi.
cal and mental disorders are discussed
in medical conventions and spread
abroad in medical books, and it is high
time that some of the millions of souls
that have been medicated by music,
vocal and instrumental, let the world
know what power there Is in sweet
sound, whether rolling from lip, OF
leaping from Tightening chord, or as.
cending from ivory key. Music is a uni.
versal 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 at water-place we were
greeted as we entered great auditori.
um, which was filed with thousands OF
Russians, whose language l could moi
understand any more than they could
understand mine. But after the grand
band had, out of compliment to us,
played our two great American airs, ]
stepped on the platform and said to the
bandmaster: Russian airl Russian
airr' and then he tapped with his baton
on the music rack, and with a splendoI
and majesty of power hatalmost made
us quail, the full band poured forth
their national anthem. They under.
stood our American music, and we un.
derstood their Russian music. 1t is q
universal language and so good for uni.
versal cure. l should not wonder IL in
the day Of judgment it should be found
out that more souls have been saved by
music than by preaching. should moi
wonder II, out of the one hundred and
forty and four thousand ran.
somed souls that John foresaw
before the throne Of God, al
least one hundred and thirty
thousands had been saved by sweet
song. Why does not the church on
earth take the hint? Heaven Is the
great musical center OF the universe,
the place of doxologies and trumpets
and harps, and in preparation for that
place, we ought TO make more OF music
on earth. The band of music at Wa
terloo played the retreat Of the Forty.
second Highlanders back TO their places
and sacred music has returned many Q
faltering host Of God into the Christian
conflict with as much determination
and dash as Tennyson's "Six Hundred" !"
Who can tell what has been accom-.
plished by Charles Wesley's seven thou.
sand hymns, by the congregational
singing Of his time, which could be
heard two miles Off? When my dear
friend, Dio Lewis, (gone to rest all toe
soon), conducted a campaign against
drunkenness at the west, and marshaled
thousands Of the noblest women OF
the land in that magnificent campaign.
and whole neighborhoods and village,
and cities shut up their grog-shops, dc