Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1897-06-02
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| troversies, backbirings ana revenges arc
| the DEVILS sonata, are diabolic fugue, are
demoniac phantasy, are grand march OF
doom. are allegro of perdition.
But il 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 a defect of musical execu-
tion, and though there We're in one bar as
many offenses against harmony as could
crowd in between the lower of the bass
and the higher G. of the soprano it 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 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 inharmony into glorious
cadence. Then Bach turned and gave salu-
tation to the host.
But the worst of all discord is moral dis
cord. If society and the world are pain
fully discordant to imperfect man what
must they be to a perfect God? People try
to define what sin Is. 1t seems to me 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 clashng with his will, the finite
dashing against the infinite, the frail
against the puissant, the created against
the creator. If 1000 musicians, with flute
and cornet-a-piston and trumpet and vto-
loncelly, the hsntboy and trombone and
all the wind and stringed Instruments that
ever gathered in 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 as that which RACES in a SIN
full soul when God listens to the play Of its
thoughts, passions and emotions
lifelong discord, maddening discord.
The world pays more for discord that It
does for consonance. High prices have
been paid for music. One man gave S225
to hear the Swedish songstress in New
York, and another 1925 to hear her in Bos-
ton, and another $3.50 to hear her in Provi-
dence. Fabulous prices have been paid for
sweet sounds. but far more has been paid
for discord The Crimean War cost 81 ,7O0,-
900 900 and the American Civil War over
50 500 900, 600 and the war debts of pro-
fessed Christian nations are about S15 ,OO0,-
900 900. The world pays for this red ticket,
which admits it to the saturnalia of broken
bones and death agonies and destroyed
cities and plowed graves and crushed
hearts, any amount of money satan asks.
Discordl Discordl
But L have to tell you that the song thai
the morning stars sang together at the lay
ing of the worlds cornerstone is to reSound
again. MoZarts greatest overture was
composed one night when he was several
times overpowered 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 il will awaken and be
more 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 all
good men and women and of all 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.
The whole world must also be attuned
by the same power. / was in the Fair
banks weighing scale manufactory 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 nee-by
the mansions of the manufacturers, whose
invention and 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 Anvil Chorus" composed by
Verdi, 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, crowbar
chorus, pickax chorus, gold mine chorus,
rail track chorus, locomotive chorus. II
can be done, and it 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 il, AS
sometimes on earth, n tune is fashioned out
of many tunes, or it is 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
ing, as coming through the great anthem OF
the saved, accompanied by harpers with
their harps and trumpeters with their
trumpets if we should hear some of the
strains Of Antioch" and Mount Pisgah"
and Coronation" and '.Lenox" and st.
Martins" and Fountain and ariel" and
"Old Hundred How they would bring to
mind the praying circles and communion
days, and the Christmas festivals, and the
church worship in which on earth We min
gledi | 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 so many
years. Now, If sin is discord and righteous
ness is harmony, let US get out of the one
and enter the other.
o Lord our God, quickly usher In the
whole worlds peace jubilee, and all islands
of the sea join the Ave 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
toiled for burial ring for resurrection and
all the cannon that ever hurled death
across the nations sound forth eternal VIC
tory. And over all acclaim of earth and
minstrelsy of heaven there will be heard
one voice sweeter and mightier than any
human angelic voice, voice once full Of
tears but now full Of triumph, the voice OF
al,
the beginning and the end the first and
the last" Then, at the laying of the top
stone of the worlds history, the same
voices shall be heard as when at the lay
ing of the worlds cornerstone, "the morn.
ing stars sang together"