Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1896-11-07

tion, and though there We're In one lar rs
many oifcnscs against harmony as could
crowd in between the lower + Of the bass
and the higher Il az the soprano it would
/ give them no discomfort, while on the fore
/ head 81 the educated artist beads Of per
+ spirution would stand out as "a result of
the narrowing dissunancc, While an anna
tour was performing on piano and had
+ Just struck the wrong chord. John Sehas-
tian Bach the immortal composer, entered
the room and the amateur rose In embar
rasSment and Bach rushed past the host,
i who stepped forward To greet him, and be-
fore the keyboard lad stopped vibrating
put his adroit hand upon the keys and
changed the painful inharmony into glori-
ous cadence Then Bach turned and gave
j salutation To the host
But the worst Of all dscord Is moral dis
Z cord II society and the world are pain
fully discnr,lant to imperfect man, what
must they bc Ia perfect God: People try
+ Ia define whit sin is. Ii seems To me that
sin is getting out of harmony with God,
disagreement with his holiness, with his
purity. with his love, with his commands,
our will clashing with his will, the finite
dashing against the infinite tho frail
against the puissant. the created against
the creator II 600 musicians, with llutc
! and coruct "a piston and trumpet and VIC
+ lonccllo the hauttoy and trombone and
+ all the wind and Stringcd Instruments that
4 ever gathered in a Dusseldorf jubilee
should resolve that they would play out of
/ tune and put concord to the rack and make
/ the place wild with shriekine and grating
/ and raSping sounds. they could not make
4 such pandemonium rs that which RACES
4 in II sinful soul when God listens to tho
/ play Of its thoughts passions and emo
+ tions-discord lifelong discord, madden
/ ing discurd.
/ The world pays more for discord than il
/ does for cenSOnanCc. High prices hayo
/ been paid for music. one man gave SEQ
/ To hear the Swedish songstrcsS in New
/ York. and another $t35 Ia hear her in Bos-
/ ton, and another $3.50 To hear her in provi-
/ dencc Fabulous prices have been pad for
sweet sounds, but far more has been paid
/ for discord. The Crimcan war cost 81, zoo,
/ coo. 900 and the American civil war over
! 81. 500. 600. GOO, and the war debts of pro-
1 fcsscd Christian nations are about Sl5.
O0c. GOO. 0O0. Tie world pays for this red
ticket, which admits il to the sIturnalia
Of broken bones and death agonics and de-
stroycd cities ard plowcd graves and
crushed hearts, any amount Of money sa-
] tan ASKS. IJSCord. lil>Cofu.
The stars VIII Sing Again.
But have to tell you that the song that
the morning stars sang together ut the lay
| ing of the world is cornerstone is to rcsound
again. Mozarts greatest overture was
composed one night when he was several
times overpowcred with sleep, and artists
say they can tell the places in the music
where lac was falling asleep and the places
the morning stars spoken Of in my text
has been asleep hut it Will awaken and be
more grandly rendered by the evening
stars Of the worlds existence than by tho
morning stars, and the yespcrs will be
swcctcr than the mathis. The work of all
good men and women and of all good
churches and all reform associations help
to bring the race back 70 the original har-
mony. The rcbclliouS heart to be attuned,
social life 10 be attuned, commercial ethics
/ TO bo attuncd, Internationally 10 be at
tuned hcmiSphercs to be attuncd.
In oldcn times the choristers had n tun-
ing fork with two prongs. and they would
strike IL on the back OF pew or music rack
and put il 10 the ear and then start the
tune, and all the other voices would join.
In modern orchestra the leader has CON-
pletc instrument rightly attuncd and he
sounds that. and all the other performers
tune the keys of their instruments to make
them correspond and draw the bow over
the string ard listen, and sound it over
again until all the keys are screwed to con-
cert pitch and the discords melt into one
great symphony, and the curtain hoists,
and the baton taps, and audiences are rap
tured with :chumann's Paradise and the
| Peri, - or Russnis "Stabat Mater" or
Bach Magniilcatn in d.
Now, our world can never he attuned by
All imperfect instrument Even Crcmo-
M would not do. Heaven has ordained
the only instrument, and i; is made out Of
the wood of the cross, and the voices that
accompany il are imported voices, canta-
triccs Of the first Christmas night, when
heaven screnaded the earth with Glory to
God in the highest, and on earth peace,
| good will to men. " Lest we start too far
OFF and get lost in gcneralitics, we had bet
ter begin with ourselves, get our own
hearts and lives in harmony with the eter-
nal Christ. Oh, for his almighty spirit to
| attunc Us to chord our will with his will,
to modulate 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 mclifluous The instrument
made for heaven To play on has been
roughly twangcd and struck by influences
worldly and dcmoniac. o master hand Of
Christ restore this split and fractured and
dcspoilcd and unstrung nature until first
1t shall wall ont for our sin and then thrill
with divine pardon!
The Whole World Attuncd.
The whole world must also be attuned
by the same power. ] was in the Fair
banks weighing scale mandatory Of Yer
mont. Six hundred hands. and they have
never had "a strike. Complete harmony be-
tween labor and capital, the operatives of
scores Of years in their beautiful homes
| near by the mansions of the manufacturers
whose invention ana Christian behavior
made the great enterprise so, all tho
world over, labor and capital will DO
brought into euphony. You may have
| heard what is called the Anvil Chorus, :"
composed by Verdi, a tune played by ham
mers, great and small, now with mighty
stroke and now with heavy stroke, beating
"A great iron anvil. That is what the
world has got to come to-anvil chorus,
yardstck chorus, shuttle chorus, trowel
chorus, crowbar chorus pickax chorus,
gold mine chorus, rail track chorus, loco
motive chorus II can hc done, and it Will
be done; 50 all social life will he attuncd
by the gospel harp.
There will he as many classes in society
| as now, but the classes will not he rcgaat-
cd by birth or wealth or accident, hut by
the scale of virtue and bencvolcncc, and
people will be assigned To their places as
good or very good. or most excellent So
also commercial life will be attunod, and
there will be - in every dozen and IL
ounces in every pound, and apples nj the
| bottom OF the barrel will be as sound as
those on the top, and silk goods viii not
| be cotton, and sellers will not have to
charge honest people more than the right
! price because others will not pay, and
| goods will come Ia you corresponding with
the sample 10y which you purchased them,
and coffee will not ne cllicoried, and sugar
viii not hc sandcd, and milk will not be
chalkod. and adulteration of food will be
state prison oiTcnso. Aye all things shall
/ be attuned. Elections in England and the
/ United States will no more be a grand car
niyal Of defamation and scurrility, but thu
elevation Of righteous men in "A righteous
way.
Wonderful Christianity.
In the sixteenth century the singer.
called the Fischer brothers reached tho
4 lowest bass ever recorded, and tho highest
note every trillcd was by La Bastardella.
and Catalni's voice had IA compass Of 81
t.