Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1898-04-21

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CT nnsia o. which istp played all tho
music you ever heard. from the gran
dours Of an August thunderstorm to the
Boftost breathings Of flute. Small in
Htt.,,3.s:.s ce music, only n quarter nf on
inch OF surface and the thinness Of ono
Northumberland. d.fftieth part Of an
inch, aud that thinness divided into
three layers. In that ear musical staff,
lines, spaoes, bar and rest. A bridge
leading from the outside natural y, orld
to the inside spiritual world we seeing
the abutment at this end tho bridge,
but the fog of an upliftod mystory hid
Ing the abltmont OH the othor end
the bridge. Whispering gallery Of the
! soul. The human voice is Gods oulogy
the car. That voice capable Of produo-
ing IL, 60S, i66, 044, 40 sounds, anu aii
thnt variety made not for tho rogaie-
ment Of boast or bird, but for the hu-
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About 10 years ago, In Venico, lay
down in death ono whom many consid-
| cred the greatest musical composer of
tho century. Struggling on up from 6
years OF age, whom ho was left father
less, Wagner roso through the obloquy
OF the world and ofttimes all nations
Beemingly against him until he gained
the favor Of king and won tho enthusi-
asm Of tho opera houses of Europe and
America. Struggling all tho way on to
70 years Of ago to oonquor tho worlds
car! In that same attempt to master the
human aar and gain supremacy over
this gate of tho immortal soul groat
battlos woio ;uugnt by Mozart, Gluok
md Wpbpr and hv Rpotbpvon o,,l hf,,,
crbeor, by Rossini and by MI tho roll Of
German and Italian and French COM
posers, some Of thom in thu battlo leav-
ing their blood ON tho koyn )tes and the
musical scores. Great battls fought for
tho oar--fought with baton with organ
pipo, with trumpet, with ot-a-pis-
ton, with all ivory and br, zen and sill
vor and goldon weapons Of tn orchestra;
royal thoator and cathedral and aoad-
emy of music tho fortrossos for tho oon-
tost for tho Car. England and Egypt
fought for the supremacy of tho Suoz
canal, and tho Spartans and tho Porsians
fought for the dofilo at Thormopylm,
but tho musicians Of all agos havo
fought for tho mastery Of tho auditory
canal and tho dofilo of tho immortal
soul and tho ThermopylD of struggling
Cadonces.
Conquost OF tho Ear.
For tho conquest Of tho car Haydn
struggled on up from tho garnet, whore
ho had neithor fro nor food, on nd OIL
until undor tho too great nervous strain
Of honring his own oratorio of tho
"Croation" porformod ho was carried
Cut - dc. but l1G0aviiiss &C bic Legacy &c
the. world 118 symphonies, 1913 piecos
for tho baritone, 10 MASSES, oratorios,
42 German and Italian songs, 80 cnnOns,
365 English and Scotch songs, with -aer-
compartment, and 53G pages Of librot-
ii. All that to capture tho cato Of the
body that swings in from tho tympanum
to tho "Sna.l sholl" lying on tho beach
of tho ooonn Of tho immortal soul.
TO conquer tho oar Handel struggled
on from tho time whom his father would
not lot him go to school lost ho learn
tho gamut and become musician, and
from tho timo when no was allowed in
tho organ loft just to play after tho au-
dionco had loft to the time when hu loft
to all nations bis unparalleled oratorios
of Esther, Deborah, "Sampson"
"Jophthnh, " Judas Maocabmus "Is-
raol In Egypt and tho "Messiah" the
weeping in tho dead march Of our great
obsoquies and triumphing in the rap.
lures of overy Easter morn.
To conquer tho car and taxo this cato
of tho immortal soul Schubert composed
his great "Serenado," writing the
staves Of tho music on tho bill of faro
i'll restaurant and went on until no
could leave as legacy to tho world
over 1 1000 magnificent compositions in
music. TO conquer tho ear and tako this
cato Of tho soul 8 castle Mozart strug-
gled on through poverty until ho came
to u paupor's grave, and one chilly,
wet afternoon tho body Of him who
gave to tho world tho "Requiom" and
tho &c Minor Symphony" was crunch
ed in on tho top of two other paupors
into q grave which to this day is OPT
taphless.
For tho ear everything mollinuous
from tho birth hour whom our earth was
wrapped i'll swaddling clothes Of light
and sorenndod by other worlds, from
tho time when Jubal thrummod tho first
harp and pressed a key Of tho first or
gan down to tho music Of this Sabbath
day Yoa, for the car tho coming over
turos of heaven, for whatever other
part Of the body may bo left in tho dust
tho oar, we know, is TO como to coles
tlal lifo; otherwise why tho "harpors
harping with thoir harps?" For tho car
carol Of lark, and whistle of quail, and
chirp Of cricket, and dash Of cascade
and roar Of tides oceanic, and doxology
Of worshipful assembly and minstrolsy,
chorubio, scraphic and archangolio. For
tho car all Pandean pipes, all flutes, oil
clarincts, all hautboys, all bassoona, all
bells and all organs-Luzorne and West
minister abboy, and Froiburg, and Bor-
lin, and oil tho organ pipos sot across
Chrlstondom, tho great Giants Cause
way for tho mOnarohs Of music to pass
over. For tho car, all chimes, all tioIt-
lnBs Of chronomotors, all anthems, all
dlrges, all gloos, all choruses, all lula
blcs, al! "rohostration. Oh, tho car, tho
God honol sd car. grooyod with divine
sculpture and poised with divine grace
fulness and upholstered with curtains
OF divine embroidery, and oorridorod by
dlVlno carpentry, and pillared with di-
vine architoctnrn, and ohisolod in bono
OF dlVlno masonry, and conquered by
professions Of divine marshalingI The
oar! a perpetual point Of Interrogation,
asking, How? A perpetual point of
apostropho appealing to God. Mono but
God could plan it. Mono but God could
build it. Mono but God could work It,