Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-26
MUSIC.


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stragglers who had stayed to discuss the
persons who should send in pies and those
who should send chicken for the church
dinner on Saturday following. The organist
had closed the organ and the melancholy
wailing OF the pump was once more silent,
the music had been gathered and put in
place and the %janitor, having turned OIL
the electric current, had proceeded on his
homeward way.
The choirmaster was planning the even
ing service for the next Sunday with the
organist when the lights were extinguished
and. striking a match, they essayed to find
their way out, when suddenly the door OF
the pastors study was heard to open, and
the choirmaster, stopping short in his exit,
said to the organist: Hush, there is a
burglar in the church! Let us wait and see
Developments" The CLEAN of we lanterns
shone out in the darkness, which otherwise
was relieved only by the twinkle OF
occasional color caused by the street light
passing through the stained glass windows.
The sound of footsteps was heard.
Nearer and nearer it came. and the two
musicians waited. In a few seconds a
strange parsonage was at the pulpit, be was
clad in full ministerial costume and with
him was another such as he. holding in his
hand two books, the one a concordance, and
the other a hymnal.
Taking the concordance the first c~lericus
began to expound to the ether the thoughts
which he should proceed to convey to the
minister Of the church. Then taking the
hymnal he said: And now, this must be
placed before the choirmaster and the
organist. in such a way as to make them
admire it. Remember, dear brother, there
are many things in this world which look
better through go%ld-rimmed glasses. Give
the musicians glasses. and have them gold
trimmed. Make it to their advantage to buy
these books. There is no thought in them
which will last. These ditties about golden
streets and silver alleys and children's
slippers. and SO fourth, please so many OF
the materialistic and hysterical persons that
we must have them introduced. We can
afford to please the older people, you know,
for they are gone beyond us anyway, but
the young people we want and we must
have. They will be Disguised, in this age,
with old threadbare stuff about Beautiful
Reckoning Hands and 'Consecrated Corn
producing Feet Bah! we must save the
healthy. vigorous young people. We must
have the warm blood. the generous DISPOSE
ton, the beating hearts OF manly youth and
womanly beauty.
NV 80 ~ hHS Ay'fNt iNaip thC h'p-
rotic go. We have no need of them, they
will never influence the world. These others
will. They must be preached to in the right
way. 1t will not do to let them be talked to
as thinking people. They must still be fed
with the ld-fashioned illogical ideas, which
they know very well are impossible. Then
they will leave the church. We will get
them. The singing must be OF such a ma
ture as to drive them away. This must be
attended to in the Sunday school. Now last
Sunday l heard som children singing, and
IL was beautiful. They were singing as
though their lives were full of happiness.
Every verse ended Singing everlastingly, to
the blessed trinity That must be stopped.
1t will not do. That kind of work will fiji
the churches with children. 1t will attract
them.
you must see the Sunday schools. You
are not paying enough attention to them.
| will attend to the pulpits and the choirs.
/ have selected two hymns for next Sunday.
Have them sung. One is Abide with Me-
This should be sung at the morning session,
especially II 1t ie a bright day. See the
accompanist and make him play slowly.
Emphasize the second verse:
swift to its close GIBBS out life's heeting
Earth's joys grow dim. its glorles pass
away. ~
The children will enjoy that, | think.
Ha' ha, ha! land OF all the iendish laughter
that a respectable and orthodox %choirmaster
and organist heard. the peal that followed
was the wolst imaginable).
Then, try them on this-here 1t Is, No.
265-no. let me see, 267; yes. here it is:
shrinking from the cold hands of death.
], too, will gather up my feet"
And again the two clerical looking gen.