The Globe-republican., 1896-11-05

seems to me that sin is getting out of
harmony with God. q disagreement
with his holiness, with his purity, with
his love. with his commands, our win
clashing with his will, the finite DASH
ing against the infinite. the frail
against the puissant. the created
against the Creator. If a thousand mu-
sicians, with flute and cornet-a-piston,
and trumpet, and violoncello, the haut-
boy. and trombone, and all the wind
and stringed instruments that ever
gathered in a Dusseldorf jubilee should
resolve that they would play out of
tune, and put concord to the rack. and
make the place wild with shrieking
and grating and rasping sounds, they
could not make such a pandemonium
as that which RACES in sinful soul
when God listens to the play of it's
thoughts, passions, and emotion-dis-
cord, lifelong discord. madden;ng dis
cord.
In olden the choristers had q tun-
ing fork with two prongs. and they
would strike it on the back of pew or
music rack. and put it to the ear, and
then start the tune. and all the other
voices would join. In modern orches-
ira the leader has a complete instru-
ment rightly attuned, and he sounds
that, and all the other performers tune
the keys Of their instruments to make
IN f,HNu
over the string and listen, and sound it
over again, until all the keys are
screwed to concert pitch, and the dis
cords melt into one great symphony,
and the curtain hoists, and the baton
taps, and audiences are raptured with
Schumann's Paradise and the Peri"
or Rossini's "Stabat Mater" or Bach's
"Magnificat" in D.
Now, our world can never be attuned
by an imperfect instrument. Even a
Cremona would not do. Heaven has
ordained the only instrument, and it
is made out of the wood of the cross,
and the voices that accompany 1t are
imported voices. cantatrices of the
first Christmas night. when heaven
serenaded the earth with GLORY to
God in the highest, and on earth
peace, good will to men," Lest we
start too far off and get lost in
generalities. We had better begin with
ourselves, get our own hearts and lives
in harmony with the eternal Christ.
Oh, for his Almighty Spirit to attune
us, to chord our will with his will. to
modulate our life with his life. and
bring us into unison with all that is
pure. and self-sacrificing. and heaven
ly! The strings our nature are all
broken and twisted, and the bow is
so slack it cannot evoke anything
mellifluous. The instrument made for
heaven to play on has been roughly
twanged and struck by influences
worldly and demoniac. o master hand
of Christ. restore this split, and frac
tured, and despoiled, and unstrung ma
ture, until first it shall vail out for our
sin and then thrill with Divine pardon!
The whole world must also be at
tuned by the same power. was in
the Fairbanks Weighing Scale Manu-
factory, Of Vermont. Six hundred
hands, and they havs never had
strike. Complete harmony between
labor and capital, the operatives of
scores of years in their beautiful homes
near by the mansions of The manu-
facturers, whose invention and Chris
tan behavior made the great enter
prise: So, all the world over, labor and
capital will be brought into euphony.
You may have heard what is called the
Anvil Chorus" composed by Verdi.
a tune played by hammers, great and
small, now with mighty stroke, and
now with heavy stroke, beating a great
iron anvil. That is what the world
has got to come to-anvil chorus, yard |
stick chorus, shuttle chorus, trowel |
chorus, crowbar chorus. pickaXe |
chorus, gold-mine chorus, rail-track |
chorus. locomotive chorus. 1t can be !
done, and it will be done. So all social !
life will be attuned by Gospel harp. !
There will be as many classes in So |
ciety as now, but the classes will not be |
regulated by birth, nor wealth, nor &C.
cident, but by the scale of virtue and |
and people will be as
signed to their places as good. or very
good, or most excellent. So, also, COM
mercial life will be attuned, and there
will be twelve in every dozen, and six
teen ounces in every pound, and ap-
pies at the bottom Of the barrel will
be as sound as those on the top. and
silk goods will not be cotton. and sell
ers will not have to charge honest
people more than the right price be-
cause others will not pay, and goods
will come to you corresponding with
the sample by which you purchased
hem, and coffee will not be chicoried,
md sugar will not be sanded, and milk
will not be chalked, and adulteration
II food will be State prison offense.
Aye, all things shall be attuned. Elec-
ions in England and the United States
will no more be a grand carnival Of
and scurrility. but the ele-
ration of righteous men in q righteous
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