Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-11-07
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How they would bring to mind the
praying circles and communion days, and
the Christmas festivals, and the church
worship i'll which. on earth we mingled
| have no idea that when we bid fare
well to earth we are to bid farewell to
ell these grand old gospel hymns which
melted and raptured our souls for SO
many years. Now, if sin is discord, and
righteousness is harmony, let US get out
Of the one and enter the other. After
our dreadful civil war was over, in the
summer of 1869, great national peace
Jubilee was held in Boston, and as an
elder Of my church had been honored by
the selection Of some of his music to
be rendered on that occasion accom-
panied him to the jubilee Forty thou
sand people sat and stood In the great
coliseum erected for that purpose.
Thousands of wind and stringed instru-
ments. Twelve thousand trained voices.
The masterpieces of all ages rendered,
hour after hour and day after day-Han-
del's Judas Maccab9us, b" Spohr's
Last Judgment, Beethoven's mount
Of Olives, f" Haydn's Creation, Men
delssohn's "Elijah," Meyerbeer's Cor
onation March" rolling on and up in
surges that beloved against the heavens.
The mighty cadcnces within were &C
companied on the outside by the ringing
of the bells of the city and cannon On
the commons, discharged by electricity,
in exact time with music, laundering
their awful bars of harmony that as
founded all nations Sometimes bowed
my head and wept, sometimes l stood up
in the enchantmcnt, and sometimes the
effect was so overpowering felt could
not endure it, especially when all the
voices were in full chorus, and all the
butons were in full wave, and all the
orchestra i'll full triumph, and hun
bred anvils under mighty hammers were
in full clang, and all the towers of the
city rolled in their majestic sweetness,
and the whole building quaked with
the boom of 80 cannon. Parepa Rosa,
with voice that will never again be
euualed on earth until the archangelic
voice proclaims that time shall be no
longer, rose above all other sounds in
her rendering Of our national air, Tho
Star Spangled Banner" 1t was too
much for mortal, quite enough for an
immortal, to hear, and while some
tainted one womanly spirit, released
under its power, sped away to be with
God.
o Lord, our God, quickly usher in
the whole worlds peace jubilee, and oil
islands of the sea join the five CONT
nents, and all the voices and oil the mu-
steal instruments of allnations combine,
and all the organs that ever sounded re-
QUEEN OF sorrow sound only u grand
march OF joy, and ali the bells that
tolled for burial ring for resurrection,
and all the cannon that ever hurled
death across the nations sound forth
eternal victory, and over all the acclaim
Of earth and minstrelsy of heaven there
will be heard one voice sweeter and
mightier than any human or angelic
voice, voice once full Of tears, but now
full of triumph, the voice of Christ, say
ing, II am alpha and omega, the be-
ginning and the end, the first and the
last" Then, at the laying Of the top
stone of the worlds history, the same
voices shall be heard as when, at the
laying of the worlds cornerstone, tho
morning stars sang together.