The Grenada sentinel., 1897-10-02


sphere OF Christian harmony, and tt,
TO seek unconsccrated sounds, 1t i
absurd for a millionaire to steal.
Many of YOU are illustrations {
what II sacred song can do. ThroGgl
it you were brought into the kingdom
of Jesus Christ. You stood out agains
the warning and the argument OF th.
pulpit, but when, in the sweet word.
of Charles Wesley or John Newton ol
Toplady, the love of Jesus was sung t.
Y ur soul, then you surrendered, as al
armed castle that could not be taken
by host. lifts its window to listen to Q
harps trtll.
There was a Scotch soldier dying in
New Orleans, and Scotch minister
came in to give him the consultations
of the Gospel. The man turned over
on his pillow and said: Don't talk "a
me about religion Then the minister
began to sing familiar hymn that
was composed by David Dickenson, be-
ginning with the words:
Oh, mother dear, Jerusalem,
Whcn shall come to thee:
lie sang it to the tune of Dundee. and
everybody in Scotland knows that:
and, as he began to sing, the dyin,
soldier turned over on his pillow and
said to the minister: Where did you
learn that?" "Why," replied the min
lister, my mother taught me that
so did mine, said the dying soldier;
and the very foundation Of hi, heart
was upturned. and then aad there he
Welded himself to Christ. Oh, it has
an irresistible power. Luthers SER
mons have been forgotten, but his
Judgment liymA sing, on through the
ages, and will keep on singing until
the blast of the archangels trumpet
Shall BRING about that very day which
the hymn celebrates. | would to God
that YOU would take these songs of
salvation rs messages from Heaven; for
Just as certainly as the birds brought
food to Eli jah by the brook Cherith, so
these winged harmonies, God-sent, are
flying 10 your soul with the bread of
life Open your mouth and take it, o
hungry Elijah.
have also noticed the power Of sa-
cred song 10 soothe perturbation. You
may have come in here with Il great
many wurrimeuts and anxiety, vet
perhaps in the singing Of the first
hymn You lost them all. You have
read in the Bible Of Saul, and how he
was sad and angry, and how the boy
David came in and played the evil
spirit out of him. A Spanish king was
melancholy, The windows were all
closed. lie sat in the darkness. Moth
ing could bring him forth until Fra
nell came and discoursed music for
hrec or four days to him. On the
fourth day he looked up and wept and
'rjolctd, and the window, were thrown
open, and that which all the splcndors
1t the court could not do the power of
song accomplished. If you have anxi-
tiles and worriInents, try this heaven
y charm upon them. Do not sit down
N the bank of the hymn, but plunge
II, that the devil of care may bo
brought out of You.
1t also arouses to action. DO you
1ot know that a singing church is all
ways triumphant church, If con-
yrcgation is silent during the exercise
II partially silent, it is the silence of
leath. If when the hymn is given out
'ou hear the faint hum of here and
here father and mother in Israel,
Will. the vast majority are silent, that
minister of Christ who is presiding
reeds to have a very Strong constitu-
ION il he does not get the chills. lie
leeds not onl Y the grace OF God, but
lcrveS like wha ebone. 1t is amazing
luw some people with voice enough to
discharge all their du lies in the world,
when they come into the house of God
rave no voice to discharge this duty.
really believe that if the Church of
'hrist could rise up and Sing as it
,ught to sing, whrrr we have Il hun
Ired souls brou ,nL into the kingdom
# Christ there would be thousand.
low was it in oldcn times? Caietan
"'"' HotiNi 10 w AAo
oIgs"
But must now speak OF some OF the !
Obstacles in the way OF the advance
nrnt Of this sacred music, and the first
5 that it has been impressed into the
ervice Of Satan. lam far from believ-
ng that music ought always to be posi-
ively religious. Refined art has ope ned |
'laces where music has been Sec
'Iarized. and awfully so. The draw
ng-room, the concert. by the gratitca-
ion OF pure taste, and the production
# harmless amusement and the i'm
Of talent. have become very !
trong forces in the advancement
+ our civilization. Music has as much
ight to laugh in Surrey gardens as it
Ias TO pray in st. Puu's. In the king
ON of nature we have the glad fling
# the wind as well as the long me ire
'salm OF the thunder. But while all |
his is 50, every observer has noticed
hat this art, which God intended for |
he improvement Of the ear and the |
oice, and the head and the heart has
'ften been impressed into the service
y error Tartini, the, musical com.
'oser. dreamed one night that Satan
matched from his hand an instrument |
nd played upon it something very
weet-a dream that has often been