Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-11-02

asleep. out IL WILL aWaAGU ana De more
1 grandly rendered by the evening stars
of the worlds existence than by the
mornfac stars, and the vespers will be
sweefer than the mathis. The work Of
| all GOOD men and women and of all
good churches and all reform associa-
tions help to bring the race back to the
1 original harmony. The rebellious heart
10 be attuned, social life to be attuned,
commercial ethics to be attuned, inter
nationality to be attuned, hemispheres
TO be attuned.
In olden times the choristers had
tuning fork with two prongs, and they
would strike it Oh 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 orchestra
the leader has a complete instrument
rightly attuned, and he sounds that, and
all the other performers tune the keys
| of their instruments to make them cor
respond and draw the bow over the
string and listen and sound it over
again until all the keys are screwed to
concert pitch and the discords melt into
one great symphony, and the curtain
hoists, and the baton taps and audiences
| disc and the Peril Or Rossini's s'Stabat
Mater or Bach's 'sMagnificat" in D.
Now, our world can never be attuned
by an imperfect instrument. Even q
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 it are i'm
ported voices, cantatrices Of the first
| Christmas night, when heaven serenad-
ed 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 III harmony with tie 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 heavenly!
The strings OF our nature are all broken
and twisted, and the bow is SO slack it
cannot evoke anything mellifuous 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
strung nature until first it shall wall
out for our sin and then thrill with di-
vine pardonl
Complete Harmony.
The whole world must also be attuned
by the same power. ! was In the Fair
banks weighing scale manufactory of
Vermont. Six hundred hands, and they
have never had a strike. Complete har-
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operatives of scores Of years il their
beautiful homes near by the mansions
Of the manufacturers, whose invention
and Christian behavior made the great
enterprise. So all the world over la. IT
and capital will be brought into eu-
phony. You may have heard what is
called the ''Anvil Chorus, T" composed
by Verdi, 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-an-
vii chorus, yardstick chorus, shuttle
chorus, trowel chorus, crow bar chorus,
pickax 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 the gospel
harp. There will be as many classes in
society as now, but the classes will not
be regulated by birth or wealth or acct
dent, but by the scale of virtue and be-
nevolence, and people will be assigned
to their places as good, or very good, or
most excellent. So also commercial life
will be attuned, and there will be 2 III
every dozen, and IS ounces III every
pound, and apples at the bottom of the
barrel will be as sound as those on the
top, and silk goods will not be cotton,
and sellers win not have to charge hon.
est 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
them, and coffee will not be chicoried,
and sugar will not be sanded, and milk
will not be chalked, and adulteration of
food will be a state prison offense-aye,
all things shall be attuned! Elections in
England and the United States will no
more be grand carnival of defamation
and scurrility, but the elevation of
righteous men n q righteous way.
In the sixteenth century the singers
called the Fischer brothers reached the
lowest bass ever recorded, and the high
est note ever trilled was by La Bastar-
della, and Catalini's voice had a COM
pass of 3 - octaves But Christianity is
more wonderful, for it runs all up and
down the greatest heights and the deep
est depths of the world S necessity, and
it will compass everything and bring it
in accord with the song which the morn
ing stars sang at the laying of the
worlds cornerstone All the sacred mu-
Gic in homes and concert halls and
churches tends toward this consumma-
ton Make it more and more hearty.
Sing in your families. Sing in your
places of business. IF we with proper