The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-05-27

iuS HiuyCu tuCu SWEET muSlC J00l tine cOm-
poser was awakened by the emotion and
tried to reproduce the sounds. and there
| from was written Tartini's most famous
piece, THE Devils Sonata" q dream in
genious. but faulty, for all melody de-
| scends from heaven and only discords as
cend from hell. All hatreds, feuds. con-
troversies, backbitings and revenges are
the DEVILS sonata, are diabolic fugue. are
demoniac phautasy. are grand march OF
doom. are allegro of perdition.
But II in this world things in general are
out OF tune to our frail ear, how much
more so to beings angelic and deific! 1t
takes skilled artist to fully appreciate
disagreement OF sound. Many have no ca
pacity to detect defect OF musical execu-
tion, and though there were In one bar as
many ofenses against harmony as could
crowd in between the lower + OF the bass
and the higher q Of the soprano IL would
give them no discomfort while on the fore
head Of the educated artist beads OF per-
spiration would stand out as a result OF the
narrowing dissonance. While an amateur
was performing on piano and had Just
struck the wrong chord, John Sebastian
Bach. the immortal composer entered the
room, and the amateur rose In cmbarrass-
ment, and Bach rushed past the host, who
stepped forward TO greet him, and before
the keyboard had stopped vibrating nut his
"hfoit upon tu' heNF anu CnHnRtu
the painful inharmony into glorious
cadence. Then Bach turned and gave salu-
tation to the host.
But the worst OF all discord IL moral dis
cord. II society and the world are pain
fully discordant to imperfect man. what
must they be to n perfect God? People try
to define what sin Is. II seems to me that
sin is getting out Of harmony with God. a
disagreement with his holiness with his
nvitx xt,eh Ia lou,
our will clashing with his will, the finite
dashing against the infinite. the frail
against the puissant the created against
the creator. II 1000 musicians, with flute
and cornet piston and trumpet and yio-
loncelly. the hantboy and trombone and
all the wind and stringed Instruments that
ever gathered in n Dusseldorf jubilee should
resolve that they would play out OF tune
and put concord to the rack and make the
place wild with shrieking and grating and
rasping sounds, they could not make such
pandemonium rs that which RACES in n sim
full soul when God listens to the play OF its
thoughts. passions and emotions -discord,
lifelong discord. maddening dscord
The world pays more for discord that It
does for consonancc. High prices have
been paid for music. Ono man gave 1925
to hear the Swedish songstress in New
York, and another S625 to hear her in Bos-
ton, and another $3.50 to hear her in Proyi-
dence. Fabulous prices have been paid for
sweet sounds, but far more has been paid
for discord, The Crmcan War cost 81. 700
900, 900 and the American Civil War over
80, 500 ,OOO,O0 and the war debts of pro-
fessed Christian nations are about I'll, ,O0O,-
600 900. The world pays for this red ticket,
which admits 1t to the saturnalia Of broken
bones and death agonies and DESTROYED
cities and plowcd graves and crushed
hearts, any amount OF money satan asks.
Discord! Discordl
But have to tell you that the song that
the morning stars sang together at the Law
ing or the worlds cornerstone Is to resound
again. MO2art's greatest overture was
composed one night when he was several
times ovcrpowered with sleep. and artists
say they can tell the places in the music
where he awakened. so the overture of
the morning stars spoken of in my text
has been asleep, but 1t will awaken and be
more grandly rendered by tho evening
stars of the worlds existence than by tho
morning stars, and the vcspers will be
swecter than the mathis. The work of all
good men and women and OF all uood
churches and all reform associations help
to bring the race back to the original har-
mony. Tho rebelious heart 60 be attuned,
social life to be attuned. commercial ethics
to be attuned, internationally to be ut
tuned, hemispheres to be attuned.
The whole world must also be attuned
by the same power. | was in tho Fair
banks weighing scale manufnctory OF Yer
mont. Six hundred hands, and they never
had a strike! Complete harmony between
labor and capital, tho operatives OF scores
Of years In 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 bc brought into
cuphony. You may have heard what IL
called the anvil Chorus" composed by
Verdi, a tune played by hammers, great
and small now with mighty stroke and
now with heavy stroke, beating great
iron anvil. That is what the world has got
to come to-anvil chorus, yardstick chorus,
shuttle chorus, trowcl chorus, crowbar
chorus, pickax chorus, gold mine chorus,
rail track chorus, locomotive chorus. It
can be done, and it will be done; 40 all
social life will be attuncd by the gospel
harp.
Heaven il to have anew song, an entirely
new song. But should not wonder II, M
sometimes on earth, n tune is fashioned out
of many tunes, or il IL one tune with the
variations; so some OF the songs of the re-
deemed may have been playing through
them the songs Of earth. And how thrill
lliS, 'tS coming through tnN great anthem DI
the saved, accompanied by harpers with
their harps and trumpctcrs with their
trumpets, IL We should hear some OF the
strains Of Antioch and Mount Pisgah'
and Coronation and "LcnoX" and "St.
Martins" and Fountain" and ariel" and
"Old Hundred!' How they woIld bring to
mind the praying circles and communion
days, and the Christmas festivals, and tho
church worship In which on earth we min
glcd! | have no idea that when we bid
farewell to earth we are to bid farewell to
all these grand old gospel hymns which
melted and raptured our souls for 80 many
years. Now II sin IL discord and righteous
ness is harmony: let US get out OF the ono
and enter the other.
o Lord, our God, quickly usher in tho
whole worlds peace jubilee, and all islands
of the sea join the five continents, and all
the musical instruments of ali nations
combine, and all the organs tina. ever
sounded requiem Of sorrow sound only
grand march Of Joy, and all tho bells that
tolled for burial ring for resurrection, and
all the cannon that ever hurled denth
across the nations sound forth eternal vic
tory. And over all acclaim of earth and
OF heaven there will be heard
one voice sweeter and mightier than any
human or angelic voice, u voice once full OF
tears, but now full OF triumph the voice Of