Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-11-07

again until all tho keys are screwed to
concert pitch and the discords melt into
one great symphony, and the curtain
hoists, and the baton taps and audiences
arc rapturcd with Schumann's Para
disc and tho Peri" or Rossini's "Stabat
Mater" or Bach's "Magnifoat" III D.
Now, our world can never be attuned
by an imperfect instrument. Even q
Cremona would not do. Heaven has
ordained the only instrument, and 1t is
made out of tho wood Of the cross, and
the voices that accompany it arc i'll
ported voices, cantatrices Of the first
Christmas night, when heaven serenad-
ed the earth with "Glory to God in the
highest, and on earth peace, good will
to men," Lest we start too far or and
get lost i'll 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
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 of our nature are all broken
and twisted, and the bow is SO slack 1T
cannot evoke anything mellihuous. The
instrument mado for heaven to play on
has been roughly twanged and struck by
influences worldly and demoniac. 0
master hand of Christ, restore this split
and fractured and despoiled and un.
strung nature until first it shall wall
out for our sin and then thrill with Gl-
vine pardon!
Complete Harmony.
The whole world must also be attuned
by the same power. was in the Fair
banks weighing scale manufactory OF
Vermont. Six hundred hands, and they
have never had a strike. Complete har-
mony between labor and capital, 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 tho world over labor
and capital will be brought into Gu
phony. You may have heard what is
called the anvil Chorus, " composed
by Verdi, tune played by hammers,
great and small, now with mighty
stroke, and now with heavy stroke,
beating great iron anvil That Is
what the world has got to come to-an-
vii chorus, yardstick chorus, shuttle
chorus, trowel chorus, crowbar chorus,
pickax 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 tho classes will not
be regulated by birth or wealth or acct
dent, but by the scale Of virtue and be-
ncvolence, and people will be assigned
to their places as good, or very good, Or
most excellent So also commercial life
Will be attuned, and there will be IL IN
every dozen, and IL ounces in every
pound, and apples at tho bottom OF the
barrel will be us sound as those on tho
top, and silk goods will not be cotton,
and sellers will not have to charge hon
est people moro than the right price be-
cause others will not pay, and goods
will como to you corresponding with
the sample by which you purchased
them, and coffee will not be chicorled,
and sugar will not be sanded, and milk
will not be chalked, and adulteration Of
food will be state prison offense-aye,
all things shall be attuned Elections III
England and the United States will no
more be grand carnival of defamation
and scurrility, but the elevation Of
righteous men in righteous way.
In the sixteenth century the singers
called the Fischer brothers reached the
lowest bass ever recorded, and the high
est note ever trilled was by La Bastar-
della. and Catalini's voice had conf
pass of 81 octaves. But Christianity Is
moro wonderful, for it runs all up and
down the greatest heights and the deep
est depths of the worlds necessity, and
it will compass everything and bring 1t
in accord with the song which the morn
ing stars sang at the laying OF the
worlds cornerstone. All the sacred mu-
sic in homes and concert halls and
churches tends toward this consumma-
ton. Make it more and more hearty.
Sing in your families. Sing in your
places of business. If we with proper
spirit use these faculties, we are re-
hearsing for the skies.
Heaven is to have new song, an en-
tirely new song. But I should not Won
der if, as sometimes on earth tune IS
fashioned out of many tunes, or it is one
tune with the variations, SO some Of the
songs of the redeemed may have play
ing through them the songs of earth.
And how thrilling, as coming through
the great anthem of the saved, accom-
panied by harpers with their harps and
trumpeters with their trumpets, if we
should hear some of the strains OF Anti
och" and Mount Pisgah" and Corona
ton" and "Lenox" and ''St. Martins"
and Fountain" and "Ariel" and "Old