Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-11-05

tifui cooking instrument which the Eng |
lish call a spit-an iron roller with spikes |
on It and turned by q crank before hot |
ere-and then, II the minister being roasted |
cries out against IL, the men who are turn |
ing 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 cicrumfer- |
e1ced with discord, and the music that |
was rendered at the laying Of the worlds |
cornerstone when the morning 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
tarth there comes up a thrilling solo Of
love, or a warble Of worship, or a sweet
duet of patience, they are drowned out by
discord that shakes the earth.
Paul says, "The whole creation groan-
eth. q" 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 1t is found that the cuckoo sings in
the key of D and that the cormorant Is
basso In the winged choir, yet sportsman's
gun and the autumnal blast often leave
them ruffled and bleeding or dead in mead
ow or forest Paul was right, for the
| groan In nature browns out the prima
donnas Of the skv.
Tartini, the s.reat musical composer,
dreamed one niF;.t that he made a contract
with satan, the latter to be ever in the
composers service. But one night he
handed to satai: violin, on which Diabo-
lus played such sweet music that the COM
poser was awakened by the emotion and
tried to reproduce the sounds, and there
from was written Tartini's most famous
piece, "The DEVILS Sonata" a dream in
genious, but faulty, for all melody de-
scends from heaven and only discords as
cend from hell All hatreds, feuds, con-
troversies, backbitings and revenges are
the DEVILS sonata, are diabolio fugue, are
demoniac phantasy, are grand march of
doom, are allegro Of perdition.
Definition of Sin.
But If In this world things in general
are out of tune to our frail ear, how much
more SO to beings angelic and deifol 1t
takes skilled artist to fully appreciate
disagreement of sound Many have no ca
pacity to detect defect of musical execu-
ton, and though there were in one bar as
many offenses against harmony as could
crowd in between the lower of the bass
and the higher of the soprano it would
give them no discomfort, while on the fore
head of the educated artist beads of per-
spiration would stand out as a result of
the narrowing dissonance While an anna
teur was performing on piano and had
just struck the wrong chord, John Sebas-
tian Bach, the immortal composer, entered
the room, and the amateur rose in embar-
rassment, and Bach rushed past the host,
who stepped forward to greet him, and be-
fore the keyboard had stopped vibrating
put his adroit hand upon the keys and
changed the painful inharmony into glori-
Gus cadence. Then Bach turned and gave
salutation to the host
But the worst of all discord is moral dis
cord. If society and the world are pain
fully discordant to imperfect man, what
must they be to perfect GodP People try
to define what sin is. 1t seems to me that
sin is getting out of harmony with God, a
disagreement with his holiness, with his
purity, with his love, with his commands,
our will clsshing with his will, the finite
dashing against the infinite, the frail
against the puissant, the created against
the creator. If / 1000 musicians, with flute
and cornet-a-piston and trumpet and vio-
lonce1lo, the hautboy and trombone and
all the wind and stringed instruments that
: ever gathered In o Dusseldorf jubilee
should resolve that they would play out of
! tune and put concord to the rack and make
the place wild with shrieking and grating
and rasping Sounds they could not make
such pandemonium as that which RACES
! In sinful soul when God listens to the
play Of its thoughts, passions and emo
! tions-discord, lifelong disoord, madden
ing discord.
The world pays more for discord than 1t
does for consonance. High prices have
been paid for music One man gave 1926
to hear the Swedish songstress In New
0 York, and another S625 to hear her In Bos-
ton, and another $3.50 to hear her in Provi-
r dence. Fabulous prices have been pad for
sweet sounds, but far more has been paid
for discord. The Crimean war cost 81, 700,-
/ 600, 900 and the American civil war over
90, soc, 900, 900, and the war debts of pro-
, fessed Christian nations are about SIS,
| 600, 900, 900. The world pays for this red
{ ticket, which admits it to the saturnalia
b of broken bones and death agonies and de.
: stroyed cities and plowed graves and
: crushed hearts, any amount of money sa
tan asks. Discordl Discord!
The Stars Will Sing Again.
t But have to tell you that the song that
l the morning stars sang together at the lay
i ing Of the worlds cornerstone is to resound
t again. Mozart's greatest overture was
Q composed one night when he was several
, times oyerpowered with sleep, and artists
!, say they can tell the places In the musi,
where be was falling asleep and the places
0 where he awakened. So the overture ol
d the morning stars spoken Of In my text
has been asleep, but 1t will awaken and bt
: more grandly rendered by the evening
: stars of the worlds existence than by thu
a morning stars, and the vespers will bt
g sweeter than the Mathis The work of al
Q good men and women and Of all goot
churches and all reform associations helI
: to bring the race back to the original har
a mony The rebelltous heart to be attuned
: social life to be attuned, commercial ethic.
Q to be attuned, Internationally to be at
r tuned, hemispheres to be attuned.
!, In oiden times the choristers had tun
d ing fork with two prongs, and they woull
|, strike 1t on the back of pew or music racl
Q and put 1t to the ear and then start tn,
q tune, and all the other voices would Join
J. In modern orchestra the leader has a com
@ plete instrument rightly attuned and HI
1t sounds that, and all the other performer
10 tune the keys of their instruments to max,
d them correspond and draw the bow owe
@ the string and listen, and sound 1t owe
e again until all the keys are screwed to con
Is cert pitch, and the discords melt into on
:, great symphony, and the curtain hoists
# and the baton taps, and audiences are rap
s. tured with Schumann's Paradise and tn
g PERI" or Rossini's "Stabat Mater" O.
Bachs "Magniticat" in d.
Now, our wcsld can never be attuned b.
y an imperfect instrument. Even Cremo
y ma would not do. Heaven has ordainet