The Princeton union., 1896-11-12


the voicrs that accompany It are I'M
ported voices, cantatrices of TIE first
Christmas night, when heaven sere1adt
ed the earth with &c Glory to God in the
highest and on earth, peace, good will
to men,. Lest we start too far off, and
get lost in generalities, we had better
begin with ourselves, get our own,
hearts and lives in harmony with the
eternal Christ. Oh, for his almighty
spirit to attune us, to chord our will
with his, to 1nodulate our life with his
life, and bring lis into unison with all
that is pure, and self-sac crificing, and
heavenly! The strings Of our nature
are all broken and twisted, and the
bow is. SO slack that lit cannot evoke
anything mellifuous The instrument
made for heaven to play on has been
roughly tWanged and struck by infiu-
ences worldly and demoniac. O, mas
ter hand Of Christ, restore the split,
and fractured, and despoiled, and un-s
strung nature, until first we shall vail
out for our sin and then thrill with di-3
vine pardon! #
tuned by the same power was in
the Fairbanks weighing scale manu-,
factory of Vermont Six hundred
hands, and they have never had a
strike. Complete harmony between la
Dor and capital, the operatives of
scores Of years in their beautiful
homes near the mansions Of the manu-
facturers, whose invention and Christ
ian behavior made the great enter
prise. 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, a tune played by hammers,
great and small, now with mighty
stroke, and noWs with heavy stroke,
beating a great iron anvil. That is
what the world has got to come to-
anvil chorus, yard stick chorus, shuttle
chorus, tro vel chorus, crowbar chorus,
pickaX chorus, gold-miBe chorus. rail-
track chorus, locomotive chorus It
can be done, and it will be done So,
all social life will e attuned bby the
gospel harp. There will be as many
classes in society IS now, but tho
classes will not be regulated by birth,
OF wealth, or accident, but by the scale
of virtue and benevolencc. and people.
will be assigned to their places as good.
OF very good, or most excellent. So,
also, commercial life will be attuned.
and there will be twelve III every doz-
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and apples at the bottom of the bar
rel will be as sound as those at3the top.
and silk goods will not be cotton and
sellers will not have to charge honest
people more than right prices because.
others will not pay, and goods will
come 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 be chalked and adulteratiUn,
Of food will be a state prison offense..
Aye, all things will be attuned: Elec-
tions in England and the United States
will no more be a grand carnival Of
defamation and scurrility. but the ele-
vatiOn Of righteous men in a righteous
way.
After our dreadful Civil war was
over, in the summer of 1869. a great
national peace jubilee was held in Bos-.
ton, and as an elder Of my church had
been honored by the selection of some
Ofahis music, to be rendered on that oc-
casion, l accompanied him to the jubi-
lee. Forty thousand people sat and
stood in the great Coliseum erected for
that purpose. Thousands of wind and
stringed instruments Twelve thou
sand trained voices. The masterpieces
of all ages rendered, hour after hour,
and day after day-Handel's "Judas
Maccabaeus." Spohr's Last Judg-
ment," Beethoven's Mount of Olives
Haydn's Creation Mendelsohn's
"Elijah,' Meyerbeer's Corona ton
March rolled on and up in surges that
billowed against the heavens. The
mighty cadences within were accompa-
! MED on the outside by the ringing of
0f rif nd ~,
commons, discharged by electricity in
exact time with the music, thunderinc
their awful bars Of harmony that as
founded all nations. Sometimes
bowed my head and wept. Sometimes
stood up in the enchantment and
| sometimes the effect was so overpower-
| ing i felt [ could not endure it, espe-
clally When all the batons were in full
| wave, and all the orchestra in full tri-
umph, and a hundred anvils. under
| mighty hammers We're in full claIg.
and all the towers of the city rolled in
their majestic sweetness and the whole
| building quaked with the boom Of thir-
ty cannon. Parepa Rosa, with a voice
that will never again be euualed on
earth until the archangelic voice pro
claims that time shall be no longer.
rose, above all other sounds in her rem
derlng OF our national air, "The Star
/ Spangled Banner" 1t was too much
for a mortal, quite enough for an i'm
mortal, to hear, and. while some faint
ed, one womanly spirit released under
it's power, sped away to be with God.
q Lord, our God, quickly usher in the
whole worlds peace jubilee. and all
islands of the sea join the five CONT
nents, and all the voices, and all the
musical instruments of all nations
combine, and all the organs that ever
sounded requiem of sorrow sound only:
grand march Of JOY, and all the bells
that tolled for burial ring for resur-
rection, and all the cannon that ever
hurled death across the nation sound
forth eternal victory, and over all the
acclaim Of earth and minStrelsv of
heaven there will be heard one voice.
sweeter and mightier than any h1nan
OF angelic Voice, a voice once full Of
tears, but now full Of triumph the
voice of Christ. saying: st am Alnha
and Omega, the beginning and the end
the first and the last Then, at the
layin gof the top-stone of the worlds
history. the same voices shall be heard
laying Of the top-stone Of the worlds
cornerstone, ''the morning stars sang
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