Connecticut western news., 1896-11-05

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 eu- 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, | pi,kax chorus, gold mine chorus, rail | track chorus, locomotive chorus. It | 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 ill | society as now, but the classes will not ! be regulated by birth or wealth or acci- I dent, but by the scale of virtue and be- nevolenee, 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 2 in every dozen, and Is ounces in every | pound, and apples at the bottom of the | barrel will be as sound as those on the | top, and silk goods will not be cotton, and sellers will not have to charge hon. est people more than the right price be- cause others will not pay. and goods | will come tc you corresponding with the sample by which you purchased them, and coffee will not be chicoried, and sugar will not be sanded, and milk xx,,f1 ba al, rod l,,lt Df food will be state prison offense-aye, all things shall be attunedl Elections in England and the United States will no more be a grand carnival of defamation and scurrility, but the elevation of righteous men in a righteous way.
 In the sixteenth century the singers called the Fischer brothers reached the f1west bass ever recorded, and the high est note ever trilled was by La Bastar- della, and Catalini's s voice had con- pass of 3 hs octaves But Christianity is more 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 it in accord with the song which the morn ing stars sang at the laying of the world cornerstone. All the sacred mu- sic in homes and concert halls and churches tends toward this consumma- tion. 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 a new song, an en- tirely new song. But I should not won- der if, as sometimes on earth a 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" md Fountain" and Ariel" and "Old Hundred!'
 How they would bring to mind the praying circles and comm union days, and the Christmas festivals, and the church worship ill which on earth we mingled 1 have no idea that when we bid fare well to earth we are to bid farewell to all 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 ,,,k, |, 1oy, Ioll ,,, elder of my church had been honored by the selection of some of his music to be rendered on that occasion I 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 Maccshaus, Spohr's ''Last Judgment, Beethoven's Mount of Olives, Haydn's Creation, Men delssohn's ''Elijah, " Meyerbeer's Cor onation March" rolling on and up in surges that billowed against the heavens
 The mighty cadences within were &C., companied on the outside by the ringing of the bells of the city and cannon on the commons, discharged by electricity, ill exact time with music, laundering their awful bars of harmony that as- founded all nations. Sometimes bowed my head and wept, sometimes stood up ln the enchantment, and sometimes the effect was so overpowering felt could not endure it, especially when all the in ffIll ph olI +A, batons were in full wave, and all the orchestra in full triumph, and hun dred 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 equaled on earth until the archangelio voice proclaims that time shall be no longer, rose above all other sounds in her rendering of our national air, "The Star Spangled Banner.' It 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.
 0 Lord, our God, quickly usher in the whole worlds peace jubilee, and all islands of the sea join the five conti- nents, and all the voices and all the inu- sical instruments of all nations combine, and all the organs that ever sounded re- quiem of sorrow sound only a grand march of joy, and all 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 mi ghtier than any human or angelic voice, avoice once full of tears, but now full of triumph, the voice of Christ, say