The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-11-14
TALMAGE's SERMON.
The influence Of Music Upon the
Souls Of Men.
The "chsnt of tho STARE Referred 20 ~
Job-The Great Peace Jubilee In
iSoston N 1899 Meet Eio-
Quently Described.


Who laid tho corner store thereof. whom tn,
We have seen tho ceremony 1T tho Law.
ing of the cornerstone of tho church,
asylum or masonic temple. Into the
hollow of the stone were placed scrolls
of history and important documents,
to be suggestive If, 100 or 200 years af.
tor, the building should be destroyed
BY fire or torn down. We remember
:he silver trowel or iron hammer that
smote the square piece of granite into
Sanctity. We remember some venera-
BILE man who presided welding the
trowel or hammer. We remem Der also
the music as the choir stood on the
scattered stones and timber of the
building about to be constructed. The
leaves of the notebooks huttered In
the wind, and were turned over with
O great rustling, and we remember
how the bass, barytone, tenor, con-
tralto and soprano voices commingled.
They had for many days been rehears-
ing the special programme, that It
might be worthy of the cornerstone
laying.
In my text the poet of Uz calls us TO
q grander ceremony-the laying of the
foundation of this great temple Of
world. The corner stone was block
of light and the trowel was of celes-
tial crystal. All about and on the en-
bankments of clouds stood the angelic
choristers unrolling their libre ttos of
overture, and other worlds clapped
shining cymbals while the ceremony
went on, and God, the architect, by
stroke of light after stroke of light,
dedicated this great cathedral OF a
world, with mountains for pillars, and
sky for frescoed ceiling, and towering
fields for floor, and sunrise and mid
night aurora for upholstery. "Who (
laid the Cornerstone thereof, when |
the morning stars sang together?"
The fact is that the whole universe
was a complete cadence, an unbrolSen
dithyramb, a musical portfolio. The
great sheet of immensely had been
spread out, and written on it were the
stars. the smaller of them ninims, the
larger of them sustained notes. The
meteors marked the staccato passages,
the whole heavens a gamut with ell
sounds, iptona tions, modulations, the
space between the worlds musical
interval, trembling of stellar light
quaver. the thunder a bass clef, the
wind among trees u treble clef. That
is the way God made ELL things per-
feet harmony.
But one day harp string snapped
In the great orchestra. One day
voice sounded out of tune One day a
discord, harsh and terrific, grated up
on the glorious antiphop. 1t was sin
that made the dissonance, and that
harsh discord has been sounding
the centuries. All the work
of Christians and philant hr opists and
reformers of all ages is to stop that
discord and get all things back into
the perfect harmony which was heard
at the laying of the cornerstone when
the morning stars sang together. Be-
fore l get through, if / am divinely
helped. will make it plain that sin is
discord and righteousness harmony.
That, in general, things are out of
tune is as plain as To a musicians ear
is the unhappy clash of clarionet and
bassoon in an orchestral rendering.
The worlds health out of tune:
Weak lungs and the atmosphere in
collision, disordered eye and MONDAY
light in quarrel, rheumatic limb and
damp weather in struggle, neuralgias
and pneumonias and consumptions
and epilepsies in flocks, sweep upon
neig borho Gods and cities Where you
find one person with sound throat and
keen oversight, and alert ear and easy
respiration, and regular pulsation and
supple limb, and prime digestion and
steady nerves, you find hundred who
have to be very careful because this or
that or the other physical function is
The II uman intellect out of tune:
The Judgment wrongly swerved or the
lealy or the will or the tenn
per intammable, the well-balanced
mind exceptional.
Domestic life out Of tune: Only here
and there a conjugal outbreak of in
compatibility of temper through the
divorce courts, or. a flial outbreak
about II fathers will through the SUR
rogate's court OF case of wife beat
ing or MISUNDERSTANDING through the
criminal courts, but thousands of
with June outside and Janu-
nry within.
Society out of Tune: Labor and
capital, their hands on each others
throat Spirit of caste keeping those
down in the social scale who are
struggling to get up, and putting those
who are up In anxiety lest they have
TO come down. No wonder the old
piauoforte of society is all out of tune.
when hypocrisy, and lying, and sub
terfuge, ana double-dealing. and sy-
cophancy, and charlanisn, and re-
venge, have for six thousand years
been banging away at the keys and
stamping the pedals.
On all sides there is shipwreck of
harmonieS Nations in discord with
out realizing it; 30 wrong is the feel
ing of nation. for nation that symbols
chosen are fierce and destructive. In
this country, where our skies are full
Of robins and doves and morning larks,
We have our national symbol the fierce
Al a l. I'll L