The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-02

society, ana from this and that part OF
the earth, there comes up a thrilling solo
of love. or a MARBLE or worship, or Il
sweet duet of patience, they are drowned
out by discord that shakes the earth.
Paul says: ''The whole creation groars
eth" and while the nightingale, and the
woodlark, and the canary, and the ployer
sometimes sing so sweetly that their
notes have been written out in musca
notation, and it is found that the cuckoo
sings in the key of D, and that the cor
morant is a basso in the winger choir
yet sportsman's gun and the autumnal
blast often leave them rutiied and bleed
ing or dead in meadow or forest. PAN
was right for the groan in nature browns
out the prima donnas of the sky.
Taruni, the great musical composer,
dreamed one night that he made a con-
tract with SATAN the latter to be ever IN
the composers service. But one night he
handed to satan violin, on which Dia-
boluS played such sweet music that the
composer was awakened by the emotion,
and tried to reproduce the sounds, ana
therefrom was written Tartini's most
famous piece, THE Devils Sonata" a
dream ingenious, but faulty, for all met
ody descends from heaven, and only dis
cords ascend from hell. All hatreds, feuds.
controversies, backbitings and revenges
are the DEVILS sonata. are diabolic fuguc,
are demoniac phantasy, are grand march
of doom, are allegro of perdtion.
But If in this world things in general
are out of tune to our frail ear, how much
more so to beings angelic and deific 1t
takes skilled artist to fully appreciate
disagreement of sound. Many have no
capacity to detect a defect of musical
execution, and, though there were in one
bar as many Offenses against harmony as
could crowd in between the lower f of
the bass and the higher G of the soprano,
1t would give them no discomfort while
on the forehead of the educated artist
beads of perspiration would stand ont as
result of the narrowing dissonance
While an amateur was performing on a
piano and had just struck the wrong
chord, John Sebastian Bach, the immor-
tai composer, entered the room, and the
amateur rose in embarrassment, and
Bach rushed past the host, who stepped
forward to 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
dence. Then Bach turned and gave salu-
tation to the host.
But the worst of all discord is moral
discord. If society and the world are
painfully discordant to imperfect man.
what must they be to a perfect God Peo-
pie try to define what sin is 1t seems to
me that sin is getting out of harmony
with God, a disagreement with his holt
ness, with his purity, with his love- with
his commands, our will cashing with his
will,the finite dashing against the infinite
the frail against the puissant the created
against the Creator. If a thousand must
clans, with flute and cornet-a-piston, and
trumpet and violoncello, the hautboy, and
trombone and all the wind and stringed
instruments that ever gathered in a Dus-
seldorf jubilee should resolve that they
would play out of tune, and put concord
n the ri nd 70 ba MA - n.
shrieking and grating and rasping sounds
they could not make such a pandemonium
as that which RACES in a sinful soul when
God listens to the play of its thoughts,
passions, and emoton-dscord, lifelong
discord, madrenng discord
The world pays more for discord than 1t
does for consonance. High prices have
been paid for music. One man gave two
hundred and twenty-five dollars to hear
the Swedish songstress in New York, and
another six hundred and twenty-five dol
lars to hear her in Boston, and another
six hundred and fifty dollars to hear her
in Providence. Fabulous prices have been
paid for sweet sounds but far more has
been paid for discord. The Crimean war
cost one billion seven hundred million dol
lars and the American civil war over nine
and a half billion dollars, and the war
debts of professed Christian nations are
about fifteen billion dollars. The world
pays for this red ticket, which admits it
to the saturnalia of broken bones, and
death agonies, and destroyed cities, and
ploughed graves, and crushed hearts, any
amount of money satan asks. Discord!
Discordl
But have to tell you that the song that
the morning stars sang together at the
laying of the worlds cornerstone is to re-
sound again. Mozart's greatest overture
was composed one night when he was seV :
eral times overpowered with sleep, and
artists say they can tell the places in the
music where he was falling asleep, and
the 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 existence
than by the morning stars, and the vespers
will be sweeter than the mathis. The
work of all good men and women and of
all good churches and all reform associa-
tons help to bring the race back to the
original harmony. The rebellious heart
TO be attuned, social life to be attuned,
commercial ethics to be attuned, inter-
nationality to be attuned, hemispheres to
be attuned.
In olden times the choristers had tun-
ing-fork with two prongs, and they would
strike II on the back of pew or music rack,
and put IL to the ear and then start the
tune, ana all the Olnef voices would JON.
In modern orchestra the leader has a
complete instrument rightly attuned, and
he sounds that, and all the other perform
ers tune the keys OF their instruments to
make them correspond. and draw the bow
over the string and listen, and sound il
over again, until all the keys are screwed
to concert pitch, and the discords melt
into one great symphony. and the curtain
hoists, and the baton taps. and audiences
are raptured with Schumanns paradise
and the Peri" or Rossinis ''Stabat Mater, "
or Bach's "Magnncat" in d.
Now, our world can never be attuned by
an imperfect instrument. Even a Cremona
would not do. Heaven has ordained the
| only instrument, and 1t is made out of the
wood of the cross, and the voices that ac-
company it are imported voices. canta-
trices 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 eter-
nal Christ Oh, for his Almighty Spirit .tC
| attune us. to chord our will with his will
to modulate our life with his life. and bring
us into unison with all that is pure. and
| self-sacrificing, and heavenly The strings