The Penn's Grove record., 1897-05-28

~ Ine hiSheI OF the soprano II Wouiu
give them no discomfort, while on the fore
head OF the educated artist beads OF per-
SEPARATION would stand out as a result of the
narrowing dissonance. While an amateur
was performing on q piano and had just
struck the wrong chord, John Sebastian
Bach, the immortal composer, entered the
room, and the amateur rose in embarrass-
ment, and Bach rushed past the host. who
stepped forward to greet him, and before
the keyboard had stopped vibrating put his
adroit hand upon the keys and changed
the painful i%nharmony Into glorious
cadence. Then Bach turned and gave snlu.
tation to the host. =
But the worst Of all discord is moral dis
cord. II society and the world are pain
fully discordant to Imperfect man, what
must they be to a perfect God2 People try
to define what sin Is. 1t seems to mt that
sin is getting out Of harmony with God, q
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. the fraii
against the puissant, the created against
the creator. II 1000 musicians, with flute
and eornet-a-piston and trumpet and vio-
loncelly, the hantboy and trombone and
all the wind and stringed instruments that
ever gathered in a Dusseldorf jubilee should
resolve that they would play ont Of tune
and put concord to the rack and make tho
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rasping sounds, they could not make such
pandemonium as that which RACES In q sim
full soul when God listens to the play OF its
thoughts, passions and emotions--discord,
lifelong discord, maddening discord.
The world pays more for discord that It
does for e~onsonance. High prices have
been paid for music. One man gave $225
to hear the Swedish songstress in New
York, n another 1925 to hear her in Bos-
ton, and another $3.50 to hear her in Provi-
dence. Fabulous prices nave been paid for
sweet sounds, but far more has been paid
for discord. The Crimean War cost 81 ,700,-
coo, 900 and the American Civil War over
81 $500, 600, 900, and the war debts OF pro-
fessed Christian nations are.about S1b ,000,-
DOC. 900. TIL world pays for this red ticket,
which admits 1t to the saturnalia Of broken
bones and death agonies and destroyed
cities n plowed graves n crushed
hearts, any amount OF money satan asks.
Diseordl Discordl
But / nave to tell you that the song that
the morning stars sang together at the lay
ing of the worlds cornerstone is to resound
again. Mozart's greatest overture was
composed one night when he was several
times o~yerpowered with sleep, and artists
say they can tell the places In h music
where he awakened. So the overture OF
the morning stars spoken Of in my text
has been asleep, but It will awaken and be
moro grandly rendered by the evening
stars of the worlds existence than by the
morning stars, and the vespers will be
sweeter than the mathis. The work of ell
good men and and OF oil good
churches and all reform associations help
to bring the race back to the original har-
mony. The rebellioUs heart to be attuned,
social life to be attuned. commercial ethics
to be attuned, Internationally to be at
tuned, hemispheres to be attuned.
Tho whole world must also be attuned
by the same power. I was In tho Fair
banks weighing scale mandatory of YER
mont. Six hundred hands, and they never
had a strike! Complete harmony between
labor and capital, the operatives OF scores
| of years in their beautiful homes near by
the mansions of the manufacturers, whose
invention nj Christian behavior made the
great enterprise. So, all the world over,
labor and capital will be brought into
euphony. You may have heard what is
called the "Auvil Chorus" composed by
Verdi, q tune played by hammers, 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, yardstick chorus,
shuttle chorus, trowel chorus, owfar
chorus, pickax chorus, Y zine ehords,
rail track chorus, locofAo.-,e chorus. It
can be done, and 1t will be done; so all
| social life will be attuned by the gospel
harp.
Heaven is to have anew song, an entirely
new song. But / should not wonder Ii, as
sometimes on earth, atune Is fashioned out
| of many tunes, or it is one tune will the
variations; SO some of the songs of the re-
deemed may have been playing through
them the songs of earth. nj how thrill
ing, as coming through the great anthem OF
tho saved, accompanied by harpers with
their harps and trumpeters with their
trumpets, IL we should hear some OF the
aI-~l-.1 ffLr4s~obf3 .-d GsAnfrnf Dfo0oh1
and Coronation" and 'Lenox" and "St.
Martins" and Fountain and "Ariel" and
"Old Hundred" How they would bring to
mind the praying circles communion
days, md the Christmas festivals, and tho
church worship In which on earth we min
.gledi I 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 50 many
years. Now, II sin Is discord and righteous
ness is harmony, let US get out OF the one
and enter the other.
After our dreadful Civil War was over,
in the summer of 1869, a great national
peace jubilee was held in Boston, and rs
an elder of my church had been honored
by the selection of some OF his music to be
rendered on that occasion / accompanied
him to the Jubilee. Forty thousand people
sat and stood in the great coliseum erected
for that purpose. Thousands OF wind and
stringed Instruments: Twelve thousand
trained voices. The masterpieces Of all
ages rendered. hour after hour and day
after day-"Handels Judas Maccab@us, "
Spohr's Last Judgment Beethoven's
"Mount of Olives" Haydn's Creation -
Mendelssohn's elijah Meyerbeer's
Coronation March," rolling on and up
IN surees tina billowed up to the heavens.
The mighty cadences within were ac-
companied on the outside by the ringing
Of the bells OF the city, and cannon on the
commons discharged by electricity in exact
time with the music, thunuering their aw-
full bars of a harmony that astounded all
nations, sometimes 1 bowed my head and
wept. Sometimes 1 stood up In the en-
chantment, and sometimes the effect was
al 1 felt | could not endure
it. especially when oil the voices were In
fun chorus, and all the batons were in full
wave. and all the ORCHESTRA Is full tri-
umph. and 100 anvils under mighty ham
mers were in full clang, and all the tower
OF the city rolled in their majestic sweet
ness, and the whole building guaked Win
the boom of thirty cannon. Parepa hosa,
with a voice that will never again be
eaualed on earth until the a~rchangelic
voice proclaims that time shall be no Ion
ger. rose above all other sounds in her rem
dering Of our national air, The star Span
gled Banner" 1t was too much for a
mortal-uuite enough for an immortai-to
4 ntt-. Anu Willy oCaAo
manly spirit, released under its power,
sped away to be with God.
o Lord, our God, quickly usher in the
whole worlds peace jubilee, and all islands
OF the sea ioin the five continents, and all
the musical instruments OF ali nations
combine, and all the organs that eyer
sounded requiem Of sorrow sound only a
grand march of Joy, and all the bells that
tolled for burial ring for resurrection, and
ali the cannon that ever hurled death
across the nations sound forth eternal vic.
tory. Aud over all acclaim of earth and
minstrelsy OF heaven there will be heard
Zone voice sweeter and mightier than any
Human or angelic voice, a voice once full Of
tears. but now full Of triumph, the voice o.
Christ saying. II am alpha and omega
the beginning and the end, the first and
the last Then. at the laying OF the TOT
stone OF the worlds history, the SAM
voices shall be heard as when, at the lay.
ing Of the worlds cornerstone. the morn
ing stars sang together"
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