The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1896-11-12

lStence than by the incoming stars, auA
the vespers viii be swaeter than tho
mathis. The Work Of all good men
and women and of all good churches
and ali reform associations help to
bring the race back to 5he original
harmony. The rebellious heart to be
attuned, social life to be attuned, COM
mercial ethics to be attuned, interna-
tionality to be attuncd. helnispheres
to be attuned.
In olden times the chOristers had a
| tuning fork with two prongs, and they
would strike it on the back of pew or
music rack, and put it to the ear, and
| then start the tune, and all the other
voices would join. In modern orches-
ira the leader has complete instru
ment rightly attuned, 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 string, 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 raptured with
Schumann's paradise and the Peri, :"
or Rossini's Sta bat Mater" or Baci7s
"Magniticat' in ID.
Now, our world can never be at
tuned by al imperfect instrument.
Even Cremona would not do. Heaven
has ordained the only instrument, and
it is made out of the wood of the cross,
and the voices that accompany it are
imported voices, cantatrices of the
first Christmas night, when Heaven
serenaded the earth with GLORY to
God in the highest, and on the earth
peace, good will to men," Lest we
start too far off, and get lost in gen.
eralities, we had better begin with
ourselves, get our own hearts and
lives in harmony with the eter~
nal 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
sacrificing, and heavenly! The strings
of our nature are all broken and
twisted. and the bow is so slack that 1t
can not evoke anything nellitiuous.
The instrument made for Heaven to
play on has been roughly twanged
and struck by influences worldly and
demoniac. ON, 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 pardonl
The whole world must also be at
tuned by the same power. | was in the
t i,.ta l., f,o
tory, of Vermont. SIX hundred hands,
and they have never hal strike. Com
plete harmony between labor and capi-
tai, the operatives of scores of years in
their beautiful homes near by the
mansions of the manufacturers, whose
invention and Christian behavior
made the great enterprise. So, all the
world over, labor and capital will
be brought into euphony. You
may have heard what is called the
anvil Chorus composed by Verdi, a
tune played by hammers, great and
small, now with mighty stroke, and
now with heavy stroke, beating grea t
iron anvil. That is what the world
has got to come to--anvil chorns, yard
stick chorus, shuttle chorus, trowel
chorus, crow bar chorus, pc kax chorus,
gold mine chorus, rail-track chorus,
locomotive chorus. 1t can be done.
and it will be done. SO all social life
will be attuned by the Gospel harp.
There will be as many classes in
society as now, but the classes
will not be regulated by birth, or
wealth, or accident, but by the scale
of virtue and bcnevOlence, and people
will be assigned to their places as
, good, or very good, or most excellent t.
SO, also, commercial life will be at.
tuned, and there will be T. in every doz,
en-, and Is ounces in every pound, and
apples at the bottom OF the barrel will
silk goods will not be cotton, and sell
lers will not have to charge homes,
people IN ore than the right price be.
cause others will not pay, and goods
will come to you CORES spending with
the sample by which you purchased
: them, and coffee Will not be chicoried
and sugar will not be chalked, and
adulteration of food will be a state
prison offense. Aye, all things will
be attuned. Elections in England ano
the ULited States viii no more be q
grand carnival of defamation anC
scurrility, but the elevation of right.
eous men in righteous way.
In the sixteenth century the singers
called the Fischer Brothers reached
the lowest bass ever recorded, and the
highest note ever trilled was by LIZ
Bastardella. and Catalini's voice had {
compass of three and half octaves
but Christianity is more wonderful, fol-
it runs all up and down the creates
heights and the deepest depths of the
worlds necessity, and it will compass
everything and bringit in accord will
the song which the morning stars SANG
at the laying of the worlds corner
stone. All the sacred music in homes
, and concert halls. and churches. tend
toward this contamination. Make i
, more and more hearty, Sing in YOU
families. Sing in your places of bust
ness. If we with proper spirit us'
, these faculties, we are rehearsing fo
the skies.
0, Lord, our God, quickly usher il