The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-11-06

nave 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 trumpets, if we should hear
some of the strains of Antioch
and Mount Pisgah, and Corona
ton, and Lenox, and st. Martins, and
Fountain, and Ariel, and Old Hundred
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 earth we are to bid
farewell to all these grand old Gospel
hymns. which melted and raptured our
souls for so many years. Now, if sin
Is discord, and righteousness is har-
mony, let us get out of the one and en-
ter the other.
After our dreadful civil war was
over, in the summer of 1869, a great
national peace jubilee was held in Bos-
ton. and as an elder of my church had
been honOred by the selection of some
of his music, TO be rendered on that oc-
casion, / accompanied him to the
jubilee. Forty Thousand people sat
and stood in the great Coliseum
erected for that purpose. Thou
sands of wind and stringed instru-
ments. Twelve thousand trained
voices The masterpiecesofal Ill ages rem
dered. hour after hour, and day after
day-HandePs Judas Maccabaeus,"
Spohr's Last Judgment" Beethoven's
mount of Olives" Haydn's Creation"
MendelssOhn's Elijah" Meyerbeer's
Coronation March. i" rolling on and up
in surges that billowed against the
heavens. The mighty cadences within
were accompanied on the 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 harmony that astounded all ma
tions Sometimes I bowed my head
and wept. Sometimes l stood up in
the enchantment, and sometimes the
effect was so overpowering l felt
could not endure it, especially when
all the batons were in full wave, and
all the orchestra in full triumph, and
a hundred anvils under mighty ham
mers were in full clang, and all
the towers of the city rolled in
Their majestic sweetness. and the whole
building quaked with the boom of 80
cannon. Parepa Rosa, with voice
that will never again be equaled on
earth until the archangelic voice pro-
lnsv l,,A III L
rose above all other sounds in her
rendering of our national air, 'The
Star-Spangled Banner" 1t 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.
Now, our world can never be at.
tuned by an imperfect instrument
Even a Cremona would not do.
Heaven has ordained the only instru-
ment, and it is made out of the wood
of the cross, and the voices that &C
company it are imported voices, cam
tatrices of the first Christmas night,
when Heaven serenaded the earth with
"Glory to God in the highest, and on
earth peace, good will to men" Lest
we start too far off, and get lost in
generalities, we had better begin
with ourselves, get our own hearts and
lives in harmony with the eternal
Christ. Oh, for His almighty spirit to
attune US, to chord our will with His.
to modulate our life with His life, and
bring US into unison with all that is
pure, and self-sacri6cing, and heaven
ly! The strings of our nature are all
broken and twisted, and the bow is so
slack that it cannot evoke anything
mellifluous. The instrument made for
Heaven to play on has been roughly
twanged and struck by influences
worldly and demaniac. Oh, master
hand of Christ, restore this split, and
fractured. and despoiled, and unstrung
nature. until first we shall wall out for
our sin and then thrill with divine
pardon!
There will be as many classes in So
ciety as now. but the classes will not
be regulated by birth. or wealth, or
accident, but by the scale of virtue and
benevolence, and people will be as
signed to their places as good, or very
good, or most excellent. So. also,
commercial life will be attuned. and
there will be 12 in every dozen, and
16 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 corresponding with sample by
which you purchase them, and coffee
will not be chicoried, and sugar will
not be sanded, and milk will not be
chalked, and adulteration of food will
be a state prison Offense Aye, all
things shall be attuned. Elections in
England and the United States will be
grand carnival defamation and sour
rility, but the elevation of righteous
men in righteous way.
o, Lord, our God, quickly usher in
the whole worlds peace jubilee, and
all islands of the sea join the five con-