The morning times., 1896-11-02


chorus, crOwbar chorus, pIckaXe chorus,
gold mine chorus, railtrack chorus, iocp-
motive chorus. 1t can be done, and 1t Will
be done. So, all social life will be attuned
by the gospel harp.
''Ihere will be as many classes in society
as now, but the classes will not be regu-
lated by birth, or wealth, or accident, but
by the scale or virtue and DenevOlence, and
people Will be assigned 10 their places
us good, or very good, or most excellent
So also, commercial life will be attuned,
and there will be twelve in every dozen,
and sixteen 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 cor
responding with the sample by which you
purchased them, and coffee will not be
chicoried, and sugar will not be sanded,
and mix Will not be chalked. and adultcr-
alton OF food will be State prison offense.
A Aye, all things shall be attuned. Elections
III England and The United States Will
no more be grand carnival of defamation
and scurrility, but the elevation Of right
eous Inen III righteous way.
THE LOWEST NOTES.
I'm the sixteenth century the singerscallcd
the Fischer brothers reached the lowest
nole ever IcCOrucu, anu tne highest note
ever trilled was by La Rastardclla, and
Catalinis voice had u cCnpass OF three
and halr octayes; but Christianity is
more wonderful for il runs all up and down
the greatest heights and the lowest depths
OF the world s snecessiJy, and IL Will compass
everything and bring il 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
anu Churches tends toward This
nation. Make il more and more hearty.
Sing in your families. Sing in your place
OF business. If We with proper spirit use
these faculties We are reicarsing lor the
skies.
Heaven is to have a new song, an ell
tirely new song, bat should not wonder
If. as sometimes on earth tune is rash
ioned out of many tunes, or it is one tune
with the variations, SO some OF the songs
OF the redeemed may have playing thruUr:i
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 tfumpeters with their
trumpets, if We should hear soine of the
strIits OF Antioch, and Mount fisgah, and
Coronation, and Lenox, and st. Martins,
and Fountain, and Ariel, and Old Hun
dred! How they would bring To mind the
pra wing circles, and Communion days, and
the Christmas festivals, and the church
worship in which un earth We mingled.
| have no idea that when we bid farewell
to earth we are To bid fare well to all th.se
grand old Gospel hymns, which melted
and raptured our Souls for so many years.
Now, If sin is discOrd, and Righteousness
is harmony, L.. us get out of the one and
enter the other.
After our Grcadful civil war was over
in the summer OF 1868. a great national
peace jubilee was held in Boston, and Us
by the selection OF some Of his music,
to be rendered on that occasion. ac-
companied him to the jubilee. Forty
thousand people sat and stood in the great
coliseum erected for that purpose. Thou
sands OF wind and stringed instruments.
Twelve thousand trained voices. The
masterpieces OF all ages rendered. hour
after hour, and day after day-IIandei'S
Judas MaCcabaeus.' Spohrs Last Judg
| ment' Beethoven's Mount OF Olives
Haydn's Creation Memberships Elijah,
Meyerbeer's Coronation March, rolling
| on and up in suTges that billowed against
| the heavens. The mighty cadences within
were accompanied .on tie outside by the
ringing OF the bells OF the city, and cannon
on the commons. discharged by electricity,
| in exact time with the music, laundering
their awful bars of d harmony that as
| founded all nations.
SOMETIMES WEPT.
Sometimes bowed my head and wcpt.
| Sometimes l stood up in the enchant-
| ment, and sometimes the effect was so
overpowering l felt l could not endure It,
| especially when all the voices Were in full
chorus, and all the batons were i'll full
| wave, ami ali the orchestra, in full triumph.
| and hundred anvilS under mighty ham
| mers Were in full clang, and all the towers
| OF the city rolled in their majestic sweet
ness, and the whole building quaked with
| the boom OF thirty cannon. Parepa Rosa.
with voice that Will never again be
| eIualled ON earth until the IChangclc
| voice proclaims that time shall be no
| longer, rose above all other sounds In her
rendering of our national air. The Star
| Spangied Banner" II was too much for
| "A mortal, quite enough for an immortal.
to hear, and, while some tainted, one
| womanly spirit, released under its power.
| sped away to be with God.
| go Lord, our God. quickly usher in the
| whole worlds peace jubilee, and all Islands
| Of the sea Join the five continents, and all
| the voices and all the musical instruments
of all nations combine, and all the organs
| that ever sounded requiem Of sorrow sound
only a grand march of JOY, and all the
bells that tolled for burial ring for resur-
| rection and all the cannon that ever hurled
death across the nations sound forth etrr-
, nal victory, and over all the acclaim of
| earth and minstrclSy of heaven there viii
| be heard one voice swecter and mightieI
than any human or angelic voice, voice
| once full of tears. but now full ofiriumph,
| the voice of Christ, saying: 1 am Alpha
| and Omega, the beginning and the end
the first and the last Then, at the lay
ing of the top-stone of the worlds history,
| the same voices shall be heard as when
at the laying Of the worlds cornerstone
| the morning stars sang together