Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-09-04
Copyright, Louis Klopsch, 1899. ]

Heaven.
copyright, Louis Klopsch, 1891
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.-Dr. Talmage
today discusses n most attractive de-
partment of religious worship-the
service of song. His idea will be re-
ceived with interest by all who love
to lift their voices in praise in the
Lords house. The text is Nehemiah
vii, 67, "And they had two hundred
forty and five singing men and sing
ing women"
The best music has been rendered
under trouble. The first duet that l
know anything of was given by Paul
and Silas when they sang praises to
God and the prisoners heard them.
The Scotch Covenanters, bounded by
the dogs of persecution, sang the
psalms of David with more spirit than
they have ever since been rendered.
The captives in the text had music
Heft in them, and 1 declare that if they
could find amid all their trials two
hundred and forty and five singing
men and singing women then in this
day of gospel sunlight and free from
all persecution there ought to be
great multitude Of men and women
willing to sing the praises of God. All
our churches need arousal on this sub
ject. Those who can sing must throw
their souls into the exercise, and those
who cannot sing must learn how, and
it shall be heart to heart, voice to
voice, hymn to hymn, anthem to an
them, and the music shall swell jubi-
liant with thanksgiving and tremulous
with pardon
> Have you ever noticed the construc-
ton of the human throat as indicative
of what God means us to do with 1t!
In only an ordinary throat and lungs
there are IA direct muscles and 30 In
direct muscles that can produce very
great variety of sounds. What does
that mean? 1t means that you should
sing! Do you suppose that God, who
gives us such Il musical instrument as
that, intends us to keep it shut? Sup
pose some great tyrant should get pos
session of the musical instruments of
the world and should lock up the
organ of Westminster abbey, and the
organ of Lucerne, and the organ at
HARLEM, and the organ at f're1burg,
and all the other great musical 1nstru-
ments of the world. You would call
such q man as that monster, and yet
YOU are more wicked if, with the hui
man voice, q musical instrument of
more wonderful adaptation than all the
musical instruments that man ever
created, you shut it against the praise
of God.
Let those refuse to sing
Who never knew our God,
But children of the heavenly King
Should speak their joys abroad
Music Born In the Soul.
Music seems to have been born in the
soul of the natural world. The oEnipO-
tent voice with which God commanded
the world into being seems to linger
yet with it's majesty and sweetness,
and you hear it IL the grainfeld, in the
swoop of the wind amid the mountain
Businesses, III the canary's MARBLE and
the thunder shock, in the brooks tinkle
and the oceans paean. There are soft
cadences in nature, and loud notes,
some of which we cannot hear at all,
and others that are SO terrific that we
cannot appreciate them.
The animalculae have their music,
and the spicula of hay and the glObule
of water are as certainly resonant
with the voice of God as the highest
heavens in which the armies of the re-
deemed celebrate their victories. When
the breath of the flower strikes the air
and the wing of the freely cleaves it,
there is sound and there is melody.
And, is to those utterances of nature
which seem harsh and overwhelming,
it is as when you stand in the midst of
al,
rends you" ear because you are too
near to catch the blending of the mu-
sic. So, my friends, we stand too near
the deSolating storm and the frightful
whirlwind to catch the blending Of the
~ music; but when that music rises to
where God is, and the invisible beings
who float above us, then l suppose the
harmony is as sweet as it is tremen-
dous. In the judgment day, that day
of tumult and terror, there will be no
dissonance to those who can appreciate
the music. 1t will be as when some
times n great organiSt, in executing
some great piece, breaks down the in
strument upon which he is playing the
music. So when the great march of the
Judgment day is played under the hand
of earthquake and storm and confagra-
ton the world itself will break down
with the music that is played on it.
The fact is, we are all deaf, or we
should understand that the whole uni
verse is but one harmony-the stars Of
the night only the ivory keys Of a
great instrument on which Gods fin
gers play the music of the spheres.
Music seems dependent on the law Of
acoustics and mathematics. and yet
where these laws are not understood
at all the art is practiced. There are