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spiration would stand out as result OF the
narrowing dissonance. While an amateur
was performing on a 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 hit
adroit hand upon the keys and changed
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 perfect God? People try
to define what sin is. Itseems to me that
sin Is getting out Of harmony with God, g
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 frafl
against the puissant, the created against
the creator. II 1000 musicians, with flute
and cornet- "a piston and trumpet and vio-
lonoelly, the hantboy and trombone and
all the wind and stringed instruments that
ever gathered in D 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 sin
full soul when God listens to the play OF it's
thoughts, passions and emotions-discord,
lifelong discord, maddening discord.
The world pays more for discord that 1t
does for consonance. High prices have
been paid for music. One man gave 1925
to hear the Swedish songstress In New
York, and another 1926 to hear her in Bo5-
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, ,700,-
O0O, 900 and the American Civil War over
go 800, 900 900, and the war debts OF pro-
fessed Christian nations are about 5000 :
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.
Discord! Discord!
But have 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 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 1t 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
banks weighing scale mandatory Of YER
mont. Six hundred hands, and they never
had strikel 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 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
now with heavy stroke, beating q 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. 1t
can be done, and it will be done; 80 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, a tune Is fashioned out
Of many tunes, or 1t Is one tune with the
variations; 80 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, II 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
gledl have no idea that when we bid
farewell to earth we are to bid farewell to
ali these grand old gospel hymns which which
melted and raptured our souls for 80 many
years. Now, if 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, great national
peace Jubilee was held In Boston, and as
an elder Of my church had been honored
by the selection Of some Of his music to be
rendered on that occasion I 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-"Handel's "Judas Maccabaus," "
Spohr's Last Judgment" Beethoven's
mount OF Olives" Haydn's Creation" +"
Mendelssohns elijah Meyerbeer's
Coronation March," rolling on and up
in surges that billowed up to the heavens.
The mighty cadences within we're ac-
compa1ied 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, laundering their aw-
full bars Of harmeny that astounded all
nations, sometimes I bowed my head and
wept. Sometimes I stood up In the en-
chantment, and sometimes the effect was
30 overpowering felt I could not endure
1t, especially when all the voices were In
full chorus, and oil the batons were In full
wave, and all the osehestra is full tri-
umph, and 100 anvils under mighty ham
mers were in full clang, and all the towers
of the city rolled In their majestic sweet
ness, and the whole building quaked with
the boom Of thirty cannon. Parepa Rosa,
with voice that will never again be
equaled on earth until the archangelic
voice proclaims that time shall be no lon
ger rose above all other sounds in her rem
derin2 of our national air, 1.-The Star Span
gled Banner" It was too much for q
mortal-quite enough for an immortal-to
hear. And while some tainted, one wo-
manly spirit, released under it's 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 join the five continents, and all
the musical instruments OF all nations
combine, and all the organs that ever