Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-12-22
Mnsie Of the Anelenis.

Music OF the AhtithiSs
Ont of this old and wise and as 1.
seems, musical Egypt came Moses ana
the children Of Israel. And, as they
had been for generations in that Me
valley, and since the gifted leader ha1
been reared in the Kings palaces, ana
had become skilled in all the wisdom
Of the Egyptians, il is evident that
when the children Of Israel emigTated
10 set up a state Of their own they car,
ried with them a music of no small
worth. We have long known that they
carried from the Nile many principles
Of ethics and religion, some good and
some bad, but TO this political science
and common literature We must now
add quite rich treasures OF hymns and
music. We may suppose that the
hymns which Moses and the army sung,
and which Miriam sung with the ae'
compartment OF her timbrel and dance,
were HYMNS created in land and age
when the harp had twenty-one strings.
BY the natural law Of progress this
music had become still better by the
day when Solomon dedicated his
temple, and when mention begins 10 DO
made of many, instruments. In the
last Psalm quite an orchestra springs
M before us. Seated in that grand
old house Of worship, You are amazed
TO see and hear trumpet and psaltery,
and harp and tinbrel and organs and
stringed instruments and high-sound-
ing cymbals. In the time OF Daniel,
SOC years later, other instruments APP
pear, and bands for the street had
sprung up. for il was decreed that
Daniel must worship the false gods at
the moment when he should hear ia
the street cornet, flute, and harp, sack
but, psaltery and dulcimer, and all other
kinds Of music. II seems that the
writer had not the patience to enumer-
ate an the instruments 10 the street
bands of the King
Whence ISSUED the stream Of fresh
sound? 1t began in that beneyolenec
and wisdom Of God which bestowed
upon man tue power to perceive and
produce and love the beautiful, and,
having thus begun, the power has grown
as the world has grown, and al Last
music ranks highest OF the beautiful
arts, unless we call literature All art. II
art is to be estimated D. its power, not
only in any one person bnt amid tho
multitude, and following such method
Of Judgment, painting and sculpture
and architecture fall far behind this one
form OF sentlment--the sentiment Of
sounds. A few may confess thelr par
TALLY for painting or statuary; indeed,
some are music deaf, as others are color
blind hut, looking at tho human FAM
lily, the delight and p4.hOg 81 music is
almost universal Il Is slg art which
holds all in its spell Tie fables about
Orpheus, how when hs played upon
his instrument, the ycry trees listened,
and the wild beasts came 70 hear and
laid aside all their ferocity, are only old
efforts % literature to toll rs now pow.
erfni this form 81 the beautiful has a..
ways been. Long before the modern
penetration had slid Let me make the
songs Of the nation and shall not care
who may make its lave" Plato had said,
II, you would know, whether q state il
well governed you must first look into
the condition u its music" We have
come TO thoughts upon power which
reaches the most human souls, aud
reaches only 10 elevate. None are too
poor to hear music; none are too hum.
bic in education TO appreciate and en-.
joy the most perfect achievements in
this line Of genius; none are above il
or below it in rank. Il comes 10 all,
like the sunshine which il grateful 10 4
beggar or King. Prot. DaUid Spiug.