Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1899-09-09
A SERVICE OF SONG.
Rsv. DR.. Talmage's Sermon sa
Music In Religion.
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Ngious worship-the service or song
His idea. viii be re~xived with interest
by all who love 30 lift their voices in
praise In the Lords house The eexs /
g. Nehemiah 1857: And they had
two hundred forty and i've ain ging men
and singing women"
Ths beat music has been rendered un- |
der trouble. The arst duct that know
anything OF was given by Paul and
silas when they sang praises 20 God
and the prisoners heard them The
Scotch Covcnanterx. bounded BY the
dogs of persecution, sang the psalms
of David with more sPirit than they
have ever since been rendered. The
captivss IN the text had music Left In
them. and / declare that II they could
nnd. amid all their trials, two hundred
and forty and Eve singing men and
siuRinR women then in this day OF
Gospel sunbght and free from all per
secution there ought 20 be great
multitude OF men and women willing
70 sinx the praises OF Cod All our
churches need arouS2l on this subject
Those who can sing must throw their
aoula into the exercise. and those who
cannot sing must learn how. and 1t
shall be heart 70 heart, voice 20 voice.
hymn 10 hymn. anthem 10 anthem.
and the music shall swell jubalant with
Thanksgiving and tremulous with par
don.
Have you ever noticed the construe-
tion OF the human throat As indicative
Of what God means VA TO do with it7
In only Al ordinary throat and lungs
there are "a direct muscles and 20 In
direct museles that can produce very
great varsity of sounds What doei
that naean7 II means that you AhoulS
Mpgi DO you EupPoss that God. wh'
rive. uE such . musical instrument a.
that. intends IA TO keep IL shutf sup
pose some great tyr2nt should get pos
session Of the musical inAtrumenth .
the world and should lock up the or
gan OF Weatninstsr abosy. and n
organ OF Lucerne. and the organ =
Haarlem. and the organ ~ freiours
aud AL the other great musical instr
msnts Of ths world. You would ca
such = man an that = monster. and -
vow are u15re wicked IL. with the huma
voice. = musical instrumsnt of NOR
wonderful adaptation than all the II
sieAl Instruments that nam ever CT
sted. you shut IL against the PrAiAs
God.
Let those refuse 20 sing
Who never knew our Cod.
Rut children OF the heavenly Kina
ShOuid speak their Joys abroad
Music seems 10 have been born IN u
soul OF the natural world. The emnip
.ent voice with which God eomman
ed Tie world into being seems 10 ling
vet with its majssty and sweetnesas -
YOU hear IL in the grainfsld, IN l
s~oop Of the wind amid the mounts
faxtnesses, in the eAn2ry's warols
the thunder shock. in the brook. l
kle and the oceans paean- There
soft cadenees in nature and loud not
some Of which we sannot hear 81
aud others that are 40 tsrrine th@t
eannst appreciate them
The anlmalculae have their mu'
and the spicula Of hay and the gioo
Of water are a. certainly resonant "
she voice OF God a. the highest heav
In which tbe armies Of the redeem
celebrate their victories When
breath of the flower strikes the air.
she wing of the srsfiy eisaves d.. N
A sound and there IL melody, and
90 those utteranees Of nature WI
sssu hArsh and overwhelming. IL
whsr YOU stsld in the midst OF g.
orchestra, and The sound slmSst ~
Il your ear because you are too
u catch the blending of the nv
40, my friends. We stand too near
desolatirg storm and the frign
-Shirlwind 10 catch the blending OF
rnusis, but when that muaie rise
whsre God is. and the invisiols oe
Who Eoas above Us. then l suppos'
harmony is ~ sweet as itis trems nd
In the Judgment day, that day OF tui
and terror, there will be no disson
70 those who can appreciate the m
IL will be a. when sometimes
orxanist, In executing some great 7
breaks down the instrument
which ne is playing the music.
when the great march Of the judg
day Ia played under the hand OF c
quake, and storm and eornagrs
ths world its<lf will break down
the music that 10 played ON IL
fact In. We ara all deaf. OF we .
underxtand that the whole uniss'
hut one harmony-the stzrs OF
airat only the ivory keys OF
sustrument on which Gods hnger
ths musle of the spheres
Music sesms dependent on the
acoustics and msshsnAties, an
shere-thess laws ara not underst
Ill the art u prscticed. There
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