St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1896-11-28

The whole world must also b ~
tuned BY the same power. was IN tho
Fairbanks weighing scale manufac-
tory. Of Vermont Six hundred hands,
and they have never had astrike. Com
plete harmony between labor and capt.
tai. tho 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. 90. all the
world over. labor and capital viii
be brought into erphony. You
may have heard what Is called the
ANVIL Chorus" composed by Verdi, q
tune played by hammers. great and
small, now with mighty stroke. and
now with heavy stroke, beating great
iron anvil. That is what the world
has got to come to-anvil chorns, yard
stick chorus, shuttle chorus, trowel
chorus. crow bar chorus, pickax chorus.
gold mine chorus. rail-track chorus,
locomotive chorus. It 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 accident, but by the scale
OF virtue aud benevolence. and people
will be assigned to their places rs
good, or very good, or most excellent.
- he -
tuned, and there will be l: in every doz-
en-. and l6 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 sci:
lers will not have to charge honest
people m ore 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 chalked, and
adulteration Of food will be . state
prison .offense. Aye. all things will
be attuned. Elections In England and
the United States will no more be q
grand carnival of defamation and
scurrility, but the elevation of right
eous men in righteous way.
In the sixteenth century the singers.
called the Fischer Brothers reached
the lowest bass ever recorded. and the
highest note ever trilled was by La
Bastardella. and Catalini's voice had .
compass Of three and y half octaves;
but Christianity is more wonderful, for
it runs all mp and down the greatest
heights and the deepest depths of the
worlds necessity. and it will compass
everything and bring it in accord with
the song which the morning stars sang
1t the laying of the worlds corner
stone. All the sacred music in homes,
and concert halls, and churches. tends
toward this contamination. Make it
more and more hearty. Sing in Your
families. Sing in your places of busi-
ness. II we with proper spirit use
these faculties, we are rehearsing for
the skies.
Heaven is to have a new song, an en-
tircly new song. but I should not won
der If. rs somtimes on earth a tune is
fashioned out of many tunes, or it 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 thrilling, As coming
through the great anthem Of the saved.
accompanied by harpers with their
harps. and trumpeters with their trum-
pets, If we should hear some Of the
strains of Antioch, and Mount Piss
gah, and Coronation, and Lenox,
and st. Martins, and Fountain,
and Ariel, and Old lIundredi
How they would bring to mind the
praying 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 to all these grand old
Gospel hymns, which melted and rap
tured our souls for SO many years.
Now, if sin is discord, and righteous
ness is harmony, let us get out of one
and enter the other.
After our dreadful civil war was
over, in the summer of 1869, . great
national peace jubilee was held in Boe-
ton, and as an elder of my church had
been honored by the selection of some
of his music to be rendered ON that &C.
casion, accompanied him to the ju-
biiec. Forty thousand people sat and
stood in the great Coliseum erect
ed for that purpose. Thousands
Of wind and stringed instruments.
Twelve thousand trained voices.
Tho masterPieces Of ALI ages rem.
dered, hour after hour, and day after
day-Handel's "Judas Maccabaeus,"
Spohris Last Judgment" Bcethovens
mount of Olives" Haydn's "Cres-
ton, Mendelssohn's ''Eiijah," Meyer
beers Coronation March, rolling ON
and up in surgcs that billowed against
the heavens. The mighty cadences
within were accompanied on the
outside bv the ringing Of the
bells of the city and can.
non ON the commons. discharged
by electricity in exact time with
the music. laundering their awful
bars of harmony that astounded all
Sometimes bowed my head
and wcpt Sometimes l stood up in
the enchantment, and sometimes the
effect was so overpowdering / felt |
could not endure it, especially when
all the battles were in full wave, aud
all the orchestra in full triumph, and
q hundred anvils under mighty ham,
mers were in full clang. and all the
towers of the city rolled in their |
ma jastic sweetness, and the whole
building quaked with the boom of 20
cannon. Parcpa Rosa. with a voice |
that y ill never again be eQualed on
earth until the archangelic voice pro-
claims that time shall be NO longer,
rose above all other sounds in her rem
dering of our national air. 1.-THE Star
Seengled BANNER" It was too much |
for . mortal, quite enough for an i'm.
to hear. and, while some
one womanly spirit, released
nhaer its power, sped away to be with |
God.
O, Lord, our God, quickly usher In
The whole worlds peace jubilee, and |
III island of the sea join the Ave CON.
tinents, and all the voices and all tho