The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1896-11-05

ened. So the overture Of the morning
stars spoken Of In my text has been
asleep, but II will awaken and be more
grandly rendered by the evening stars
Of the worlds existence than by the
morning stars, and the vespers will be
sweeter than the mathis. Tho work Of
oil good men and women and Of all
good churches and all reform associa.
tions help to bring the race back to the
original harmony. The rebellious heart
TO be attuned, social life to be attuned,
commercial ethics to be attuned, inter-
nationality to be attuned, hemispheres
TO be attuned.
In olden times the choristers had n
tuning fork with swo prongs, and they
would strike it on the back Of pew or
music rack and put it to tho ear and
then start the tune, and all tho other
voices would join. In modern orchestra
the leader has complete instrument
rightly attuned, and he sounds that, and
all the other performers tune the keys
Of their instruments to make tbom cor
respond 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 discords melt into
one great symphony, and the curtain
hoists, and the baton taps and audiences
arc raptured with Schumann's para
disc and the Peri" or Rossini's "Stabat
Mater" or Bach's "Magnificat" in ID.
Now, our world can never be attuucd
by an imperfect instrument Even q
Cremona would not do. Heaven has
ordained the only instrument, and it il
made out Of tho wood Of the cross, and
the voices that accompany il arc inn
ported voices, cantatriCes Of tho first
Christmas night, when heaven serenad-
ed the earth with "Glory To- God in the
highest and OH earth peace, good will
to men," Lest we start too far off and
get lost in gcncralities, wo had better
begin with ourselves. get our own hearts
and lives in harmony with the eternal
Christ. Oh, for his Almighty Spirit TO
nttune us, TO chord our will with his
will. to modulato 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 it
cannot evoke anything mellitluous. Tho
instrument made for heaven to play on
has been roughly twangcd and struck by
influences worldly and dcmoniac. q
master hand of Christ, restore this split
and fractured and dcspoiled and un-
strung nature until first it shall wall
out for our sin and then thrill with di-
vine pardon!
Complete Harmony.
The whole world must also be attuned
by the same power. l was in the Fair
banks weighing scale manufactory Of
E Vermont. Six hundred hands and they
! have never had II strike. Complete har.
mony between labor and capital, the
operatives Of scores OF years III 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 GU
phony. You may have heard what is
called the "Anvil Chorus" composed
: by Verdi. u tune played by hammers,
: great and small now with mighty
stroke, and now with heavy stroke,
7 beating great iron anvil. That is
what tho world has got TO como to--an-
, vii chorus, yardstick chorus, shuttle
chorus, trowcl chorus, crowbar chorus,
, pickax chorus, gold mine chorus, rail
track chorus, locomotive chorus II
can be done, and it will be- done 80 all
, social life will bo attunod by the gospel
l harp. There will be as many classes in
= society as now, but the classes will not
r be regulated by birth OF wealth or acci-
dent, but by the scale of virtue and be-
/ rCvolonco, and people will be- assigned
TO their places as good, or very good, or
= most excellent. So also commercial life
, will bo attuncd, and thoro Will DO IL in
every dozen, and l6 ounces in every
pound, and apples at the bottom Of the
, barrel will Inc as sound as those on the
, top, and silk goods will not lo cotton
and sellers will not have 10 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 chicoried,
! and sugar will not be sanded, and milk
: will not bc chalkod, and adulteration Of
food will be "a state prison offonse-aye,
/ all things shall be attuned! Elections in
/ England and tho United States will no
more be grand carnival of defamation
, and scurrility, hut 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 COM
I pass of 3ls octaves. But Christianity is
moro wonderful, for it runs all up and