Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-11-02
A PERFECT HARMONY
REV. DR.. TALMAGE DRAWS A LESSON
FROM MUSIC.

He Takes 'STEse Chant of the Sta-.=" For
the Subject of n Sermon CT Great Beauty
and Power-The Final Harmony.
WASHINGTON, Nov 1.-The musical
resources of all nations seem drawn
upon by Dr.. Talmage in this sermon
to illustrate most practical truth. His
subject was 1.-The Chant of the Stars, -
and the text Job xxxviii, 6, z. "Who
laid the cornerstone thereof, when the
morning stars sang tOgether?"
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 900 years after,
the building should be destroyed by fire
or torn down. We remember the silver
trowel or iron hammer that smote the
square piece OF granite into sanctity.
We remember some venerable man who
presided welding the trowel or ham
mer. We remember also the music as
the choir stood on the scattered stones
and timber of the building about to be
constructed. The leaves of the note books
fluttered in the wind and were turned
over with q great rustling, and we re-
member how the bass, baritone, tenor,
contralto and soprano voices commin-
gled. They had for many days been re-
shearsing the special programme that it
might be worthy of the cornerstone lay
ing.
Laying the Cornerstone.
In my text the poet of Uz calls US to
a grander ceremony-the laying Of the
foundation of this great temple Of
world. The cornerstone was a block Of
light and the trowel was of celestial
crystal. All about and on the embank- .
ments of clouds stood the angelic choris-
tiers unrolling their librettos of overture,
and other worlds clapped shining Gym
balls while the ceremony went on, anG
God, the Architect. by stroke of light aft
er stroke Of Light, dedicated this greas
cathedral Of a world, with mountains
for pillars, and sky for fresooed ceiling,
and Towering fields for a floor, and sun
rise and midnight aurora for upholstery.
"Who laid the cornerstone thereof, when
the morning stars sang together?'
The fact is that the whole universe
was q complete cadence, an unbroken
dithyramb, a musical portfolio. The
great sheet Of inmensity had been spread
out, and written on It were the stars,
the smaller Of them minims, the larger
of them sustained notes. The meteors
marked the stacoatO passages, the whole
heavens q gamut with all sounds, in
donations, 1nOdulatiOns, the space be-
tween the worlds musical interval,
trembling of stellar light quaver, the
thunder q bass clef, the wind among
trees treble cIef That is the way God
made all things perfect harmony.
But one day harp string snapped in
the great orchestra. One day voice
sounded out Of tune. One day discord,
harsh and terrific, grated upon the glo-
rious antiphon. It was sin that made
the dissonance, and that harsh discord
has been sounding through the centuries.
All the work OF Christians and philan-
thIopists and reformers Of all ages is TO
stop that discord and get all things back
into the perfect harmony which was
heard at the laying of the cornerstone,
when the morning stars sang together.
Before I get through, If [ am divinely
helped, 1 will make it plain that sin is
discord and righteousness harmony.
That in general things are out Of tune
is as plain as TO q musicians ear is the
unldDDY C41SH CA CldE1uSG S<EI DdSSOOli
in an orchestral rendering
Cut of Tune.
The worlds health out of tune; weak
lungs anG tho atmosphere in collision,
disorderet3 eye and MONDAY light in
quarrel, rheumatic limb and damp
weather i'll struggle. neuralgias and
pneumonias and consumptions and cpl
lepsies in aoaks sweep upon neighbor
hoods and cities. Where you find one
person with sound throat and keen eye
sight and alert ear and easy respiration
and regull;s pulsation and supple limb
and prime digestion and steady nerves,
you find hundred who have to be very
careful because this or that or the other
physical function is disordered.
The human intellect out of tune the
Judgment wrongly swerved, Or the
memory leaky, or the will weak, or the
temper in1ammable, the we'll balanced
mind exceptional.
Domestic life out Of tune; only here
and there q oonjugal outbreak Of incom-
Iatibility Of temper through the divorce
courts, or filial outbreak about a IA
Their s wiki through the surrogate court,
or a case OF wife beating or husband
poisoning through the criminal courts,
but thousands of families with June
outside and January within.
Society out Of tune; labor and capital
their hands on each others throat;
spirit of caste keeping those down in
the social scale who are struggling to
get up and putting those who are up in
anxiety lest they have to come down.
No wonder the old pianoforte of society
is all out of tune, when hypocrisy and
lying and subterfuge and double dealing
and sycophanoy and charlatanism and
-.eren.,a haze for. G. 600 years been bang