Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-11-05

this and that part Il the earth, there
comes a thrilling solo of love, or a
MARBLE al worship. or sweet duet of
patience, they are drowned ult 10y a
discuri that sha',c, the earth
Paul says. "rhr whole creation
Croan"th, and while thr nightingale,
and the plovcr som, times sing So
swcctly that their r1lc, have been
written ont in musical notation, and it
il found that ia" cuckoo sings in the
key Of n. and that tho rprmurant is Il
ha~~p in the win cd choir. vet sports
mans gun and the aulumnll blast
often leave thrm ruiil,'i AMI bleeding
or dead in meadow or forest Paul
was ri"ht. for the rruan in nature
drown, out the priUa duunas -. the
sky.
lartini, the great mu~ic1l composer,
dreamed one night tina. he made con
tract with Satan. the latter - be ever
IN the composers serve Eut one
night he handel Satan violin, on
which niahulus played such sweet
music that the composer was awakened
by the emotion. and tried Ia repro luce
Tartiai~ most famous pircc. The
DEVILS sonata Il dream inrcuiu~. but
faulty, for all melody dcsccnds from
Heaven. and only d.scords ascend
from he'll. All hatrcds, fcuI>. contro-
vrrairs, hac!,bitings AMI rcvcugcs are
the devils sonata. are diabulicll fuguc,
are dcmonjac phautasy, are grand
march of doom, are allegro of pcrdi-
tiun.
But ifI= this world things in general
are out of tune To our trail ear, how
much more 81 to beings angelic and
dviiic. II takes a skilled artist To fully
appreciate disagreement of sound. Many
have no capacity tn detect a defect of
musical execution. and, though there
were in one bar as many otTcnscs
against harmony as could crowd in
between the lower + of the bass
and the higher G. of the sopra-
no. it would give them no di,com-
fort, while on the forehead Of the cdu-
Gated artist heads of Precipitation would
stand out as Il result of the narrowing
di-~onancr. While an amateur was
performing ON "A piano and had just
struck the wrong chord, John Scbas-
tian Bach, the immortal composer, en-
tered the room. and the amateur rose
in embarrassment, and Bach rushed
past the host, who stepped forward 10
greet him. and before the key board
had stopped vibrating. put his adroit
hand upon the keys and changed the
painful inharmony into glorious ca.
dcncc. Then Bach turned and gave
Salutation To the host.
But the worst of ali di>cord is moral
di~cord II society and the world are
painfully diScordant To imperfect man,
what must they be To perfect God.
People try to define what sin i. 1t
seems to me that sin is getting out of
harmony with God. 4 disagreement
with His holiness, with His purity,
with His love. with His commands. our
will clashing with His will, the finite
daShing against the infinite. the frail
against the puiSsaut. the created against
the Creator. If 1000 musiciaa---w'''
flute and contemplation, an
and violoncello, the haut %,
trombone, and all the
stringcd instruments that
cred in n Dusseldorf jubilee
solve that they would play OF
and put concord to the racn
make the place wild with shri
and grating and rasping sounds, ---
could not make such pandcmonium
as that which RACES in sinful soul
when God listens tn the play of its
thoughts, passions and cmotion-dis-
cord, lifelong discord, maddcning dis
cord.
The world pays more for discord
than it does for consonancc. High
prices have been paid for music. One
man gave S225 To hear the Swedish
SongStreSs in New York. and another
sG2j to hear her in Providence. Fabu-
lous prices have been paid for sweet
sounds. but far more has been paid for
discord. The Crimcan war cost ST.
200. 900 900. and the American civil war
over $3.50, OOO.O0o, and the war debts OF
prOfcsSed Christian nations are about
Sl5. coo, 600. 0O1. The world pays for
this red ticket. which admits it to the
saturnaiia of broken bones, and death
agonicS, and destroyed cities, and
any amount of money Satan asks.
Discord. Discord,
But have totell you that the song that
the morning stars sang together at the
laying of the worlds corner stone is to
resound again. Mozart's greatest over
ture was composed one night when he
was several times overpOwcrci with
sleep, and artists say they can tell the
places in the music where he was
falling asleep and places where he
awakened. SO the overture of the
morning stars, spoken of in my
text. has been asleep. but it will
awaken and be more grandly rendered
by the evening stars of the worlds ex-
istcncc than by the morning stars, and
the vespers will be swecter than the
mathis The work of all good men
and women and of all good churches
aud all reform associations help to
bring the race back to the original
harmony. The rebcl!ious heart to be
attuncd. social life to be attuncd, COM
mcrcial ethics to be attuned, interim
tionali;y 10 be attuned, hemisphercs
to be attuned.
In oldcn times the choriStcrs had n
tuning fork with two prongs, and they
would strike il on the back of pew or
music rack and put it to the air, and
then start the tune, and all the other
voices would join. In modern orches-
ira the leader has complete instru-
mcnt rightly tuned, and he sounds
that. and all the other performers tune
the keys of their instruments to make
them correspond. and draw the bow
over the strings and listen, and sound
it over again, until all the keys are
screwed to concert pitch, and the dis
cords melt into one great symphony,
and the curtain hoists, and the baton
taps, and audiences are raptnred with
Schumann's PARADISE and the Peri, -
GA Rossini's "Stabat Mater" or Bach's
"Magniticat" in ID.
Now, our world can never be at