The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-03-20

| the music was a feast. Never anything
that they took in at theHps of the
mouth. was so delightful toStheir taste
as thatwbich they took IN at; the lips of
the ear. I have seen and you have
seen people actually intoxicated with,
sweet sounds. Oratorios which are.
always too protratcted for those of::us
who have net had our faculties culti-
waited in that direction were never:
long enough for them, as at II clock
at night the leader of the orchestra
gave the-three. taps Of his baton to-
again start the music they We're as
fresh andsalert as when three hours
| before and at s o'clock the curtain
was first lifted
Music to them is food for body. food
! for mind and food fer soul. From
| what read in my Bible l think celes-
tialized music Will make up large
| part of angels food. Why do L say
'celest;alized music3" Because. though
music may have been born in heaven,
it had not all it's charms until 1t came
to earth and took a baptism OF tears.
Since then it has had a pathos and
tenderness that it could not otherwise
have possessed. 1t had to pass under
the shadows. and over stormy seas and
weep at sepulcherS and to be hummed
as lullaby over the cradle of sick chill
dren before it could mount to its pres
ert attitudes of heavenly power. No
organ on earth would be complete
without the stop 'stremoto" and the
stop ''vox humana" And no music OF
heaven would be complete without the
'stremolon of earthly sorrow comforted
and the ''yox humana" OF earthly
sympathies glorifed. Just take up
| the New Testament and find it note
book of celestialized music.
It says Jesus sang hymn before he
went to the Mount of Olives, and If
he could sing on earth with Bethlehem
humiliation close behind him, and
sworn enemies close on both sides OF
him, and the torments Of Golgotha
Just before him, do you not suppose
I he sings in heaven? Paul and Sllas
sang in midnight dungeon, and do you
not suppose that now they sing on the
delectable summits2 What do the
harps and trumpets and choirs OF Rev
elation suggest if not music2 What
would the millions of good singers
and players upon instruments who
took part in earthly worship do IN
heaven without music2 Why, the
mansions ring with it. The great
halls of eternity echo with it. The
worship of unnumbered hosts is in
wrapped with it. It will be the only
art of earth that will have enough
elasticity and strength to leap the
| grave and take possession of heaven.
| Sculpture will halt this side the grave
because it chiefly commemorates the
forms of those who in heaven will be
reconstructed, and what would
we want of the sculptured
imitation when we stand in the pres
| ence of the resurrected originate Paint
| ing will halt this side the grave be-
cause the colors of earth would be too
tame for heaven, ard what use to have
pictured on canvas the scenes which
shall be described to us by those who
where the participants
One of the disciples viii tell us about
the sslast supper" better than Titan,
with mighty touch, set it up in art
gallery. The plainest saint by tongue
will describe the last judgment better
than Michael Angelo, with his pencil,
put it upon the ceiling of the. Vatican,
Architecture will hault this side the
grave, for what use would there be for
architects compass and design IN that
/ city which is already builtand garnish-
eduntl nothing can be added; all the
Tuileries and Windsor castles and st.
| Clouds of the earth piled up not equal
| inc its humblest residences; all the st.
Pauls and St, Peters and st. lzaaks
and st. Sophias of the earth built into
one cathedral not equaling the heaven
| " temple, but music will pass right on
right up and right in, and millions In
heaven will acknowledge that, under
God. she was the chief cause Of their
salvation. Oh, would like to be pre-
sent when all the great Christian sing
ers and the great Christian players OF
I:al the ages shall eongregate IN heav-
lent Of course they. must, like all the
rest of us, be cleansed and ransomed
/ by the blood of the slain Lamb. Alas,
that some of the great artists of sweet
sound have been as distinguished for
profisacy as for the way they warbl-
ed or sang or fingered the keyboard or
trod the organ pedal. Some who have
been distinguished bassos and sopranos
and prima donnas on earth I fear will
never sing the song of Moses and the
Lamb or put the lip to the trpumet
1 with sounds of victory.
But many of the masters who charm
led us on earth Will more nightly
charm US in heaven. Great music hall
of eternity! Mayyou and be there
some day to acclaim when the Halle
| luiah Chorus is wakened. As on
earth there have been harmonies made
up of other harmonies, a strain of
music from this cantata and strain
of music from that Overture, and a
| bar from this and bar: from that,
but one great tune or theme into which
all the others were poured as rivers
into sea. so it.may be given to the
mightiest soul in the heavenly world
to gather something from all the sac
red songs we have sung on earth or
which have been sung in all the ages,
/ and roll them on in eternal symphony
but the one great theme and the one
overmastering tone that shall carry all
before it anduplift all heaven from
central throne to farthest gate of pearl
and to thehighestc Of amethyst
will be, Unto him who loved US and
washed US from our sins in his own
blood and made us kings and priests
unto God and the Lamb, to him be
glory" That viii be mamma enough
for all heaven to feed on. That will
be banquet for immortals. That
will be angles food.
| Now in the emerald palace of
heaven let the cupbearers and servants