Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-11-05
CHANT OF THE STARS
MUSIC WAS TIE THEME OF REV. OR
TALMAeE's SERMON.


DR.. aalmage in this sermon to illustrate
. most practical truth. His subject was
1.-The Chant OF the Stars" and the text
job ss, 6, 2, "Who laid the cornerstone
thereof, when the morning stars sang to-
gether!'
We have all seen the ceremony at the
laying of the cornerstone of church, asylum
or Masonic temple Into the hollow of the
stone were placed scrolls Of history and
important documents, to be suggestive If,
100 or 200 years after. the building should
be destroyed by fire or torn down. We re-
member the silver trowel or iron hammer
that smote the square piece of granite into
sanctity. We remember some venerable
man 10 presided welding the trowel or
hair".tr. We remember also the music as
tie choir stood on the scattered stones and
i.!aber Of the building about TO be con-
Ftructed. The leaves of the notebooks flut-
tered In the wind and were turned over
with great rustling, and we remember
how the bass, barytone, tenor, contralto
and soprano voices commingled. They
had for many days been rehearsing the
special programme that 1t might be worthy
of the cornerstone laying.
Al my OC0O bIC HOCo Vi OL OdAlo ub W .
grander ceremony-the laying of the foun-
dation Of this great temple of world.
The cornerstone was block of light, and
the trowel was of celestial crystal All
about and on the embankments of clouds
stood the angelic choristers unrolling their
librettos Of overture, and other worlds
clapped shining cymbals while the cere-
mony went on, and God, the Architect, by
stroke of light after stroke of light, dedi-
Gated this great cathedral of a world, with
mountains for pillars and sky for frescoed
ceiling and towering fields for floor and
sunrise and midnight aurora for uphol.
stery. "Who laid the cornerstone thereof,
when the morning stars sang together"
Gods Perfect Harmony.
The fact is that the whole universe was
complete cadence, an unbroken dithy
ramb, q musical portfolio The great sheet
| Of immensity had been spread out, and
written on it were the stars, the smaller Of
| them minims, the larger of them sustain
ed notes The meteors marked the STAG
cato passages, the whole heavens gamut
with all sounds, intonations, modulations
| the space between the worlds musical in
terval, trembling of stellar light quaver
the thunder bass clef, the wind among
| trees q treble clef. That is the way Goo
made all things perfect harmony
But one day harp string snapped II
the great orchestra. One day voice
sounded out Of tune One daya discord
harsh and terrific, grated upon the glori
GUS antiphon. 1t was sin that made tht
dissonance, and that harsh discord hal
been sounding through the centuries. AL
the work of Christians and philanthropist
and reformers of all ages is to stop thai
discord and get all things back into thu
| perfect harmony which was heard at th,
| laying of the cornerstone when the morn
ing stars sang together. Before l ge
through, If I am diyinely helped, will
make 1t plain that sin is discord an(
righteousness harmony; that in genera
things are out of tune Is as plain as to ,
musicians ear is the unhappy clash Of clar
met and bassoon In an orchestral rem
dsring
| The worlds health out of tune; veal
lungs and the atmosphere in collision, dis
ordered eye and monday light In quarrel
rheumatic limb and damp weather IL
struggle; neuralgias, and pneumonias, ant
| ouo OplaOpUtOS Ill AOCh
sweep the neighborhoods and cities
Where you find one person with SCUM,
throat, and keen eyesight, and alert car, an,
easy respiration, and regular pulsation, an,
supple limb, and prime digestion, AM
steady nerves, you find 100 who have b
be very careful because this or that or tn
other physical function Is disordered.
| Things Out of Tune.
The human intellect out of tune; th
Judgment wrongly swerved, or the mem
ory leaky, or the will weak, or the tempe
infammable, the we'll balanced mind ex
ceptional
Domestic life out of tune; only here an,
therea conjugal outbreak Of incompatible
ity Of temper through the divorce courts
or flial outbreak about fathers vii
through the surrogate's court, or case @
wife beating or husband poisoning throug
the criminal courts, but thousands of fam
lilies with June outside and January with
In.
Society out of tune; labor and capital
their hands on each others throat; spiri
of caste keeping those down In the socis
scale who are struggling TO get up, an
putting those who are UP In anxiety les
they have to come down. No wonder th
old pianoforte Of society is all ont Of tune
when hypocrisy, and lying, and subterfugt
and double dealing, and sycophancy, an
charlatanism, and revenge have for 6, 90
years been banging away at the keys an
| stamping the pedals
7 On all sides there Is shipwreck of hal
monies-nations in discord without rea
izing 1t. So wrong is the feeling of natio
for nation that symbols chosen are flerc
and destructive. In this country, wher
our skies are full of robins and doves an
morning larks, we have our national syn
Dol, the fierce and filthy eagle, as cruel
bird as can be found in all the ornitholos
ical catalogues. In Great Britain, whel
they have lambs and fallow deer, thei
symbol is the merciless lion. In Russit
where from between her frozen north an
blooming south all kindly beasts dwell
they chose the growing bear, and in til
worlds heraldry favorite figure is I'll
dragon, the tabled winged serpent, fert
cious and dreadful And so fond Is til
world of contention that we climb OF
through the heavens and baptize one of tt
other planets with the spirit of battle an
call 1t Mars, after the god of war, and "
give to the eighth sign of the zodiac tt
: name of the scorpion, creature which
chiefly celebrated for its deadly sting Blu
] after all, these symbols are expressive
che way nation feels toward nation-di
cord wide as the continent and bridgin
J the seas
The Reign of Discord.
I suppose you have noticed how warml
J in love dry goods stores are with other di
goods stores, and how highly grocery me
think of the sugars of the grocery man G
} the same street. and in what a euloaist
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