The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-11-06

highly grocery men think of the sugars
of the grocery men on the same street
And in what eulogistic way allo-
pathic and homeopathic doctors speak
of each other, and how ministers will
sometimes put ministers on that beauti-
full cooking instrument which the Eng
lish call a spit, an iron roller with
spikes on it, and turned by crank be-
fore hot fire, and then if the minister
being roasted cries out against it, the
men who are turning him say: Hush,
my brother, we are turning this spit
for the glory of God and the good OF
your soul, and you must be quiet,
while we close the service with:
Blest be the tie that binds
Our hearts in Christian love.
The earth is diametered and circum-
ferenced with discord, and the music
that was rendered at the laying of the
worlds cornerstone, when the morn
ing stars sang together, is not heard
now; and though here and there, from
this and that part of society, and from
this and that part Of the earth, there
comes up thrilling solo of love, or
MARBLE of worship, or a sweet duet Of
patience, they are drowned out by a
discord that shakes the earth. But If
in this world things in general are out
of tune to our frail ear, how much
more so to beings angelic aud deihcl
Paul says, THE whole creation
groaneth," and while the nightingale,
and the woodlark, and the canary. and
the plover, sometimes sing so sweetly
that their notes have been written out
in musical notation, and it is found
that the cukoo sings in the key of d,
and that the cormorant is a basso in
the winged choir, yet sportsman's gun
and the autumnal blast often leave
them ruffled and bleeding or dead in
meadow or forest Paul was right,
for the groan in nature browns out the
prima donnas of the sky.
If society and the world are painful
ly discordant to imperfect man, what
must they be to perfect God! People
try to define what sin is. 1t seems to
me that sin is getting out of harmony
with God, disagreement with His
holiness, with His purity, with His
love, with His commands, our will
clashing with His will, the finite
lashing against the infinite, the
frail against the puissant, the
created against the Creator. If
a thousand musicians, with flute and
cornet-a-piston, and trumpet, and
violoncello, the hautbo7 and trombone
and all the wind and string instru-
1000 4IoE o,-o, 1,o 4harad in a DuSca1-
dorf jubilee should resolve that they
would play out of tune, and put con-
cord 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 a sinful soul when God listens
to the play of its thoughts, passions
and emotion-discord, lifelong discord,
maddening discord. But have to tell
you that the song that the morning
stars sang together at the laying of
the worlds cornerstone is to resound
again. Mozart's greatest overture was
composed one night when he was sew
eral times overpowered with sleep, and
artists say they can tell the
places in the music where he was
falling asleep, and the place where
he awakened So the overture of
the morning stars, spoken of
in nv text, has been asleep, but it will
awaken and be more grandly rendered
by the evening stars of the worlds ex-
istence than by the morning stars, and
the vespers will be sweeter than the
mathis. The work of all good men and
women aud of all good churches and
all reform associations help to bring
the race back to the original harmony.
The rebellious heart to be attuned,
social life to be attuned, commercial
ethics to be attuned, internationally
to be attuned, hemispheres to be at
tuned.
The world pays more for discord
than it does for cOnsonance. High
prices have been paid for music. One
man gave 1928 to hear the Swedish
songstress in New York, and another
s625 to hear her in Boston, and an
other $3.50 to hear her in Providence.
Fabulous prices have been paid
for sweet sounds, but far more
has been paid for discord. The
Crimean war cost S1,7OO, OOO, 900,
and the American civil war over
50, 500, ZOO, 900, and the war debts of pro-
fessed Christian nations are about SIS
900, 600, 900. The world pays for this
red ticket, which admits it to the
saturnalia of broken bones, and death
agonies, and destroyed cities, and
plowed graves. and crushed hearts, any
amount of money Satan asks. Dis
cord! Discord!
l was in the Fairbanks weighing
scale mandatory of Vermont Six
hundred hands, and they have never
had a strike. Complete harmony be-
tween labor and capital, the opera
tives of a score of years in their beau
tiful homes near by the mansions of
the manufacturers, whose invention
and Christian behavior made the great
enterprise. So, all the world over, la
Dor and capital will be brought into
euphony.
In the 10th century the singers called
the Fischer brothers reached the low
est bass ever recorded, and the high
est note ever trilled was by La Ras-