Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-11-05

tween lADOr ana Cdpltltls tue operatives OF
scores OF years in their beautiful homes
near by the mansions of the manufacturers,
whose invention and Christian behavior
made the great enterprise So, all the
world over, labor and capital win be
brought into euphony. You may have
heard what is called the "Anvil Chorus"
composed by Verdi, tune played by ham,
mers, great and small, now with mighty
stroke and now with heavy stroke, beating
great iron anvil That Is what the
world has got 20 come to-anvil chorus,
yardstick chorus, shuttle chorus, trowel
chorus, crowbar chorus, pickax chorus,
gold mine chorus rail track chorus, loco
motive chorus. II 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 regulat-
ed by birth or wealth or accident, but by
the scale of virtue and benevolence, and
people will be assigned to their places as
good, or very good, or most excellent So
also commercial life win be attuned, and
there will be 10 in every dozen and 16
ounces in 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 will not have to
charge honest people more than the right
price because 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
state prison offense. Aye, all things shall
be attuned. Elections In England and the
United States will no more be grand car
nival of defamation and scurrility, but the
elevation of righteous men in a righteous
way.
Wonderful Christianity.
In the sixteenth century the singers
called the Fischer brothers reached the
lowest bass ever recorded, and the highest
note every trilled was by La Bastardella,
and Catalini's voice had q compass of 81
octaves But Christianity is more wonder
full, for it runs all up and down the great
est heights and the deepest depths of the
worlds necessity, and it will compass ev
erything and bring it in accord with the
song which the morning stars sang at the
laying of the worlds cornerstone. All the
sacred music in homes and concert halls
and churches tends toward this consum-
nation. Make it more and more hearty.
Sing in your families. Sing in your places
of business If we with proper spirit use
these faculties we are rehearsing for the
skies.
Heaven is to have new song, an en-
tirely new song. ButI should not wonder
if, as sometimes on earth, o tune is fash
ioned out of many tunes or 1t is one tune
with the variations; SO some of the songs
of the redeemed may have playing through
them the songs of earth. And how thrill
ing, as coming through the great anthem
of the saved, accompanied by harpers with
their harps and trumpeters with their
trumpets, If we should hear some of the
strains of Antioch and Mount Pts
gah" and Coronation and "Lenox''
and "St Martins" and Fountain"
and "Ariel' and "Old Hundredp' How
they would bring to mind the pray
| ing circles and communion days, and
the Christmas festivals, and the church
worship in which on earth we mingled!
have no idea that when we bid farewell tc
earth we are to bid farewell to ali these
grand old gospel hymns which melted and
raptured our souls for SO many years
Now, If sin is discord and righteousness i:
harmony, let us get out Of the one and en-
ter the other.
| Jubilee of Peace.
| After our dreadful civil war was over
in the summer of 1869, great nationa
peace jubilee was held in Boston, and Al
an elder of my church had been honore(
by the selection of some Of his music to b,
rendered on that occasion accompanies
him to the jubilee Forty thousand peopl
sat and stood In the great coliseum erectet
for that purpose Thousands of wind ant
stringed Instruments Twelve thousani
trained voices The masterpieces of al
ages rendered, hour after hour and da.
after day-Handel's Judas MaccabBus,
Spohr's "Last Judgment" Beethoven
"Mount of Olives" Haydn's Creation,
Mendelssohn's tElijah," Meyerbeer'
Coronation March," rolling on and N
in surges that billowed against the heavens
The mighty cadences within were &C
companied ON the outside by the ringin,
of the bells Of the city, and cannon ON tn
commons discharged by electricity, In exac
time with the music, laundering their aw
full bars Of harmony that astounded al
nations, sometimes bowed my head an
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chantment, and sometimes the effect wa
so overpowering felt I could not endur
it, especially when all the voices were Il
full chorus, and oil the batons were In full
wave, and all the orchestra in full tri
umph, and 100 anylls under mighty ham
mers were in full clang, and all the tower
of the city rolled in their majestic sweet
ness, and the whole building quaked wit
the boom of 80 cannon. Parepa Rosa
with voice that will never again b
equaled on earth until the archangeli
voice proclaims that time shall be no loI
! ger, rose above all other sounds in her reI
dering of our national air, "The Star Spar
Rled Banner" 1t was too much for
} mortal-quite enough for an immortal-t
hear. And while some tainted, one woman
ly spirit, released under its power, spe
!, away to be with God.
o Lord, our God, quickly usher In th
whole world 3 peace jubilee, and all island
of the sea join the five continents, and q
the voices and all the musical instrument
of all nations combine, and all the organ
J that ever sounded requiem Of sorrow soun
only grand march of joy, and all the bell
that tolled for burial ring for resurrection
and all the cannon that ever hurled deat
across the nations sound forth eternal vii
tory. And over all acclaim of earth an
} minstrelsy Of heaven there will be hear
one voice sweeter and mightier than an
human or angelic voice, voice once fu
, of tears, but now full Of triumph, tt
J voice of Christ, saying, II am alpha an
} omega, the beginning and the end, tt
. first and the last. Then, at the layin
of the top stone of the worlds history, tt
same voices shall be heard as when, at tt
, laying of the worlds cornerstone, "tt
morning stars sang together"
In Noble county, Ind, there Is fathon
less sea--of small area, to be sure-of O
and salt water, from which gas escapt
with tremendous roar.