The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-11-13

and filthy eagle, as cruel bird 90 can
be found in all the archaeological cata-
logues. In Great Britain, where they
have lambs and fallow deer, their
symbol 10 the merciless lion. In Rus
STA, where between her frozen
north and blooming south all
kindly beasts dwell, they chose the
growing bear; and in the worlds her.
aldry favorite figure is the dragon,
the tabled winged serpent, ferocious
and dreadful. And so fond is the
world of contention that we climb out
through the heavens and baptize one
or the other planets with the spirit of
battle and call it Mars, after the god
of war, and we give to the eighth sign
of the zodiac the name of the scorpion,
a creature which is chiefly celebrated
for its deadly sting. But, after all,
these symbols are expressive of the
way nation feels toward nation. Dis
cord wide as the continent and bridg-
ing the seas.
suppose you have noticed how
warmly in love dry goods stores are
with dry goods stores, and how highly
grocerymen thinks Of the sugars of
the grocerymen on the same street,
and in what eulogistic way allo
pathic and homeopathic doctors speak
of each other, and how ministers will
sometimes pit ministers on that beau
tiful cooking instrument which the
the English call spit, and iron roller
with spikes on it, and turned by a
crank, before a hot fire, and then If
the minister being roasted cries out
against it the men who are turning
him say: Hush, my brother, we are
turning this spit for the glory of God
and the good of your soul, and you
must be quiet, while we close the serv-
ice with:
'Blest be the tie that binds
Our hearts in Christian love-"
The earth is diametered and circum-
ferenced with discord, and the music
that was rendered at the laying OF the
worlds cornerstone, when the morn
ing stars sang together, is not heard
now; and though here and there, from
this and that part Of society, and from
this and that part of the earth, there
comes up thrilling solo OF love, or a
MARBLE of worship, or swe ct duet of
patience, they are drowned out by a
discord that shakes the earth.
Paul says, THE whole creation
groaneth, and while the nightingale,
and the woodlark, and the canary, and
the plover, sometimes singtso sweetly
that their notes have been written in
mueical notation. and it is found that
the cuckoo sings in the key of d, and
that the cormorant is o basso in the
winged choir, yet sportsman's gun and
the autumnal blast often leave them
ruffled and bleeding or dead in meadow
or forest. Paul was right, for the
groan in nature browns out the prima
donnas of the sky.
Tartini, the great musical composer,
dreamed one night that he made con-
tract with Satan, the latter to be ever
in the composers service. But one
night he handed to Satan violin, on
which Diabolus played such sweet
music that the composer was awak-
ened by the emotion, and tried to re-
produce the sounds, and therefrom
was written Tartini's most famous
piece, 1.-THE DEVILS Sonata" a dream
ingenious. but faulty, for all melody
descends from Heaven, and only dis
cords ascend from hell All hatreds,
feuds, controversies, backbitings and
revenges are the devils sonata, are
dia bolic fugue, are demoniac phantasy,
are grand march of doom, are allegro
of perdition.
But in this world things in general
are out of tune to our frail ear, how
much more so to beings angelic and
deifici 1t takes skilled artist to fully
appreciate disagreement OF sound.
Many have no capacity to detect de-
feet of musical execution. and, though
there was in one bar as many offenses
against harmony as could crowd in be-
tween the lower F of the bass and the
higher q of the soprano, it would
rive them no discomfort, while
ON the forehead of the educated
artist beads of perspiration would
stand out as result Of the narrowing
dissonance. While an amateur was
performing on a piano and had just
struck the wrong chord, John Sebas-
tian Bach, the immortal composer, en-
tered the room, and the amateur rose
in embarrassment, and Bach rushed
past the host. who stepped forward to
greet him, and, before the keyboard
had stob bed vibrating, put his adroit
hand upon the keys and changed the
painful inharmony into glorious ca
dence. Then Bach turned and gave
salutation to the host.
But the worst of all discord is moral
discord. If society and the world are
painfully discordant to imperfect man,
what must they be to perfect Cod
People try to define what sin is. II
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