The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1893-06-30
BIRD SONGS

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the eegInplng of Tins.
Yesthered vscaiists Of the Hesveuiy 0&IX
This World Needs 70 Ne storun44t
with Halleiujahs -sermSa b. HS1k< (.
I. DEWITT Tsinsgs. n y. ~
Rev. DIR. Talmage sunday morpin8
chose for his sermon THE Son9s o.
Birds" Text-Psalms CIV. ~; ny,
them shall the fowls Of the hea ven tav9'
their habitation, which sing among the.
branches" ~
There is IN important and improving
subject TO which most people have given
no thought and concerning which thu
II the frst pulpit discussion, namt3ys'
the song of birviA
II all that has been written coucerkr;
ing music by human voice or aboak
music sounded ON instrument by finger
or breath were put together. volume "
the side Of volume, Il would an 3 hun
a 1fed aleesse q ~ na1toaaA u1ooFiea
!! y<As~ ago ne Ieef Js2k 4s] L. -
wing swept the door-lstoh Of Heaven,
and a. though never whipporwill had
srns IL lullaby 70 . s!uuzSsssns fsssss
at nightfall. We give passing smile
TO the call Of a bob0iink or the chirp of
. canary, but about the origin, about
the fiber, about the meaning, about the
mirth, about the pathos, about the in
SEPARATION, about the religion In the song
| OF birds the most of US are either igno-
rant or Indifferent A caveat I this
morning file in the high court Of
Heaven against that almost universal
irreligion.
First, remark that which will sur
prise many. that the song Of birds Is
regulated and systematic song, capable
OF being written out In note and staff
and clef as much ~ anything that wag-
ner or Schumann or Handel ever put on
paper. As we pass the grove where the
fiocks are holding matin or vesper serv-
ice, we are apt to think that the sounds |
are extemporised. the rising or falling !
tone Is n mere accident, IL IL flung up
and down by haphaxalsi, the bird did not |
know what II was doing. Il did not care
whether II was long meter psalm or a
madrigal. What a mistake! The
musician never put on the music rack
before him Memberships Elijah" or
Beethoven's Concerto" in @. or Spohr's
B.fiat symphony with moro definite
idea as to what he was doing than
every bird that can sing at all confines
himself to accurate and predetermined
rendering.
The oratorios, the chants, the carols,
the overtures the interludes, the bal
lads, the canticles, that this morning
were heard in the forest have rolled
down through the ages without varis-
ton. Even the chipmunk's song was
ordained clear back in the eternities
At the gates of paradise IL sang in
sounds like the sylla bles "Kuh!" s'kuh.~
"Kuh'' just as this morning in a Long
Island orchard It sang "Kuh!" "Kuhl" I
"Kuh" The thrush at the creation ut I
tered sounds like the word ''Tencherw
"fcacher~ Teacher," as now IL utters
sounds like "Teacherr' ssTeAchsf!~l
Teacher" In the summer Of the year (
one, the yellow-hammer, thrilled that ]
which sounded like the word III"
"lf!' "If.'' as in this summer It triils q
IF" "lfr "If!" The Maryland yellow .
throat inherits and bequeaths the tune
like the works PITY me, Q
pity me, pity me-" The white spar Z
rows ''Tseep, tseep," woke our great i
as 1t will awaken our
The "Tee-kM-tee- .
|xa-tee-ka" Of the birds in the first oen- =
tury was the same as ''Tee-kA-tee-ka- Q
tce-ka, of the nineteenth century. .
i nc goldGnch has for three thousand
years been singing Decree dce-ee-ree. 4" u
But these sounds, which we put In q
harsh words, they put in cadences, 9
rhJ ihmic, soulful and enrapturinR. h
Now, II there is this order and system q
,tization and rhythm all through Gods 8
'reation does it imply that we should q
have the same characteristics In the q
music we make or try to make? IL II o
,ot wiclsedness that so many parents "
rive no opportunity for the culture of u
heir children in the art of sweet sound? Il
Il God stoops to educate every blue p
bird oriole and grosbeak in song, how Il
AN parents he so Indifferent about the o.
musical development of the immortals v
n their household? Ct
While God will accept cur attempts m
% sing, though It be only hum or a
lrone, II we can do no better, what q a
hamc that, in the last decade of the "A
nineteenth century, when SO many d
orchestral batons are waving, and so ie
many academies of music. are in full n
and so many skilled men and Y
women are waiting to offer instruction, 81
here are so many people who can not b
ing with any confidence in the house "
" God. because they have had no cub Il
ure in this sacred art; or while they pl
ire able TO sing fantasia at a piano ca
mid the futtering fans of social ad- 81
nirers, nevertheless feel utterly help ct
ess when, in church, the surges of an .
Ariel or an Antioch roll over them al
The old-fashioped country singing ps
chool. now much derided and carica- 81
urcd land indeed sometimes II was al b
'ertcd from the real design into the =
culture Of the soft emotions rather than e
he voice), nevertheless did admirable Il
work., and in our churches we need IT
singing schools to prepare our sabbath
audiences for prompt and spontaneous b
md multiponent psalmody. This world II
leeds tn be stormed with hallelujahs sc
We want hemisphere campaign of dc
From hearinga blind beg bl
'ar sing, Martin Luther went home at OF
o years of age to write his first hymn. GU
N the autumn | hope to have congre- Ia
'ationnl singing school here during the IN
week. which shall prepare the people ca
or the songs Of the holy sabbath. II so
he Church Of God universal is going to ia
AXE this world for Righteousness there W
must he added hundred fold of more IA
armony as well rs hundred fold OF IN
nore volume to sacred music. IN
Further, notice In the song Of birds tn
hat II Is divinely taught song. The ov
Arrest prima donna of all the earth els
ould not teach the robin one musical so
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