The morning times., 1896-11-02
CREATION IS,,0IT OF TUNE
Sin Entered ths World and
Discord Reigned.
DIR. TALMAGE ON HARMONY
1t Is Righteousness and Until the
Earth Turns to 1t There Can BE
No Rest-When the World Is At
tuned Then the Stars VIII Sing
Together.

heN. j. Dc VIII diiNaHc, u. b., pituth'i
yesterday morning at the First Presby-
terrain Church on rha Chant Of the stars
He took for his text, Job xxXviii: 6:
who laid The cornerstone thereof when
the morning stars sang together?" In
part lie said:
We have all seen the ceremony at the
laying OF the cornerstone OF church,
asylum or Masonic temple. Into the hol-
low OF The stone were placed scrolls OF
history and important documents, to be
suggestive il, 100 or 200 years after,
the building should be destroyed by fire
or torn down. We remember the silver
trowel or iron hammer that sfnote the
square piece of granite into sanctity. We
remember some venerable man who pre-
sided, welding the trowcl or hammer. We
remember also the mls; as The choir stood
on the scattered stones and timber OF the
building about to be constructed. The
leaves OF the notebooks fluttercd in the
wind, and were turned over with a great
rustling, and We remember how the bass
baritone. tenor. contralto and soprano
voices commingled. They had for many
days been rehearsing the special program.
that IL might be worthy Of the corner
stone laying.
A GRANDER CEREMONY.
I'm my text the poet of UZ calls us
to Il grauder cercmony- laying OF the
foundation OF this great temple Of 4 world.
The corner stone was block OF light and
The trowel was of celestial crystal. All
about and on the embanknIents Of clouds
stood the angelic choristers unr"ltihg their
librettos OF overture, and other worlds
Clapped shining cyinbals while the cerc-
inony went on, and God, The architect,
by stroke OF light after stroke Of light,
dedicated this great cathedral uf n world
with mountains for pillars, aud sky for
frcscoed ceiling, and Towering fields for
floor, and sunrise and midnight aurora
for upholstery. VINO laid the corner
stone thereof, when the morning stars sang
together"
The fact is that the whole universe
was complete cadence. an unbrok..n i!thy-
ramb. musical portfolio The great
sheet of iinnensity had been spread out,
and written OH 1t were the stars. the
smaller OF them ninims, the larger ol them
sustained notes.
THE meteorS marked the staccato pas
| sages, the whole heavens a gaInut with
all sounds, lrtonatiOns, modulations, the
spacebetwcen the worlds musical interval,
trembling of stellar light quaver, tn.
thunder base clef, the wind among trees
a treble olcf. Thati slle way God made
all things u perfect harmony.
but one day a harp string snapped in
the great orchestra, One day a voice
sounded out of tune. One day a discord,
harsh ana terrific, Grated upon the slOrl-
Gus antiphon. 1t waS.sin that made the
diSSonanCe, and that harsh discord has
been sounding through the centuries. All
me work of Christians and phlanthropiSts
and ref0rmers 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 morn
| ing stars sang together. Before l get
through, If l am Divinely helped, / VIII
| make 1t plain that sin is discord and right
| eousnessharmuny. That, in general, things
areout of tunci is as plain as to IA musicians
| ear is the unhappy clash OF clarionet and
| bassoon in an orchestral rendering.
ALL OUT OF TUNE.
THE worlds health out of tune; weak
lungs and the atmosphere III collision, dis
| ordered eye and monday light IN quarrel.
rheumatic limb and damp weather n
struggle, neuralgias and pneumopas and
coisumptionS and epIepsis III fluCkS swOop
upon neiShburhoods and cities. Where
| YOU find one person with sound throat ana
| keen eyesight, and alert ear and easy
respiration, and regular pulsation and
supple limb, and prime digestion and
steady nerves, you find a hundred Who
| have to be very careful because this or
that or the ether physical function is dis
| ordered.
The human intellect out of tune; the
| Judgment wrongly swervel or the memory
| ieaky or the will weak or the temper in
| flammable, the well-balanced mind .X-
| ceptioual. Domestic life out of tune; only
here and there IA conjugal outbreak Of in-
| compatibility of temper through the divorce
| courts, or a filial outbreak about Il fathers
| will through the surrugate'S court, or a
| case Of wife-beating or MISUNDERSTANDING
| through the criminal courts, but hundreds
of families with June outside and January
| within.
| Society ont 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 piauuforte of society is all out of tune,
when hypocrisy and lying, and subterfuge,
| and Misunderstanding, and sycophancy and
| charlatanism. and revenge, have for six
| thousand years been banging away at
| the keys and stamping the pedals.
| ION all sides there Is shipwreck of har-
| monies. Nations in diScord without real
| iZing it: so wrong is the feeling of nation
for nation that symbols chosen are fierce
and destructive. In this Country, where our
| skies are full Of robins and doves and morn
ing larks, we have our national symbol
the fierce and filthy eagle, as cruel birt
| as can be found i'll all the OrnithOlogical
catalogues. In Great Britain, where they
have lambs and fallow deer, their symbol is
the merciless lion. In Russia, where from
bet wccn her frozen north and blooming south
all kindly beasts dwell, they chose the
growing bear; and in the worlds heraldry
a favorite figure is the dragon, the fabled
winged serpent. ferocious and dreadful
And so fond is the world OF contention that
we climb out through the heavens and bap
tie one of the other planets with the
spirit of battle and call it Mars, after the
god of war, and we give to the eighth
sign of the zodiac the name Of the scor-
pion, n creature which is chiefly celebrated
for its deadly sting. But, after all, theS.
symbols are expressive of the way natior
feels toward nation. piscord wide as the
continent and bridging the seas.
MORAL DISCoRD WORST.
"But the worst of all discord is moral
discord. If society and the world are
| painfully discOrdant tOimperfect man, what
! must they be to perfect God! People
| try to define what sin is. 1t seems t,
me that sin is getting out of harmony will
God, disagreement. with his holiness
with his purity, with his love, with hi.
| commands, our will clashing with his will
the finite dashing against the infinite
the frail against the puissant, the creatct
against the Creator. If thousand mu
sicians with flute and cornct-a-piston, ant
| trumpet and 'giooncell0, the haGtboy, an(
trombone, and all the wind and stringct
instruments that ever gathered in n Dus
seldorf jubilee should resolve that the
would play out of tune, and put concor'
to the rack, and make the place wild witt
shriekng and grating and rasping sounds
they could not make such pandemOniun
as that which RACES in sinful soul whel
God listens to the play of its thoughts
passions and emotion-discord, lifelong dis
cord, maddening discord.
The whole world must also be attunet
by the same power. | was i'll the Fair
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