Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-03-14

with it through all these galleries. rake
ii among all the novels, as well as
among all the palaces of the great
town. Give all nations taste of this
angels food.
Now, in the emerald palace of heaven.
let the cup-bearers and servants of the
King r.move this course from the ban
quet, and bring on another course of
angels food, which is Celestial Music,
You and i have seen at some concert or
oratorio whole assemblage to whom
the music was feast. Never ANYTHING
that they took in at the lips Of the
mouth was so delightful to their taste
as that which they took in at the lips
If the ear. / have seen, and YOU have
seen people actually intoxicated with
,lweet sounds. Oratorios which are al
ways too protracted for those Of us who
have not had our faculties cultivated
in that direction, were never long
enough for them; as at IL o'clock at
night the leader of the orchestra gave
he three taps of his baton to again
TART the music, they were as fresh and
alert as when three hours before, at
o'clock, the curtain first lifted. Music
to them is food for body, food for mind.
and food for SOUL From what read in
ny Bible, I think celestialized music
will make UP large part Of angels
food. Why do l say "celestialiZed mu-
sic?" Because though music may have
been born in heaven, 1t had not all its
charms until it came to earth and took
a baptism Of tears. Since then 1t has
had a pathos and a tenderness that it
could not otherwise have possessed. 1t
had to pass under the shadows, and
over stormy seas, and weep at sepul
chres. and to be hummed as lullaby
over the cradle Of sick children, before
1T could mount to its present attitudes
OF heavenly power. No organ on earth
would be complete without the stop,
'Tremolo," and the stop, "vox HUI
mama" And no music of heaven would
be complete without the "Tremolo" Of
earthly sorrow comforted, and the "vox
Humane" Of earthly sympathies glori-
fed. Just take up the New Testament
and find it notebook Of celestialized
music. 1t says Jesus sang a hymn be-
fore 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 Col
gotha Just before him, do you not sup
pose he sings in heaven? Paul and
silas sang in midnight dungeon, and do
you not suppose that now they sing on
the Detachable SUBMITS? What do the
harps, and trumpets, and choirs OF
revelation suggest, If not music? What
would the millions of good singers and
players upon instruments who took part
In earthly worship do in heaven without
music? Why, the mansions ring with it.
The great halls of eternity echo with
II. The worship of unnumbered hosts
Is enWrapped with it. 1t 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 1t chiefly commentaries the
forms of those who in heaven will be re-
constructed. and what would we want
OF the sculptured imitation, when we
stand in the presence of the resur-
rected original? Painting will halt
this side the grave, because the colors
of earth would be too tame for heaven,
and what use to have pictured on can
vas the scenes which shall be described
to us by those who We're the partici-
pants? One Of the disciples will tell
us about ehe Last Supper better than
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 halt this side
the grave, for what use would there be
for architects compass and design in
that city which is already built and
garniShed until nothing can be added;
all the Tnilleries, and Windsor Castles,
and st. Clouds of the earth piled up not
equaling it's humblest residences; all
the st. Fauls, and st. Peters, and st.
Izaaks, and st. Sophias of the earth
built into one cathedral not equaling
the Heavenly Temple. But music will
pass right on, right up, and right in,
and millions In heaven will acknowl-
edge that, under God, she was the
chief cause of our salvation. Oh, 1
would like to be present when all the
great Christian singers and the great
Christian players of all the ages shall
congregate in heaven. 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 ar
lists of sweet sound have been as dis
tinguished for profligacy as for the
way they warbled, or sang, or fingered
the keyboard, or trod the organ pedal.
Some who have been distinguished
bassos, and sopranos, and prima dom
mas on earth, / fear will never sing the
song of Moses and the Lamb, or put
the lip of the trumpet with sounds of
victory before the throne. But many of
the masters who charmed US on earth
will more nightly charm us in heaven
Great Music Hall of Eternity! May you
a4.1 / be there some day to acclaim
when the "Hallelujah Chorus is walk
ened. AS on earth there have been har-
monies made up of other harmones
strain of music from this cantata,
and a strain of music from that over
ture, and a bar from this, and a bar
from that, but one great tune, or theme,
into which all the others We're poured
as rivers into sea, so it may be given
to the mightiest soul in the heavenly
world to gather something from all the
sacred songs we have sung on earth,
or which have been sung in all the
ages, and roll them on in eternal sym
phony; but the one great theme, and
the one overmastering tone that shall
carry all before 1t, and uplift all heaven
from central throne to furthest gate of