The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1899-09-09

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But children OF the heavenly King
Should speak iheir Joys abroad.

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Music seems to have been born In the
soul Of the natural world. The omuipo-
tent voice with which God command
ed the world into being seems TO linger
yet with is majesty and sweetness, and
you hear it in the %grainiield, in the
Swoop Of the wind amid the mountain
Businesses. in the canGry's MARBLE and
the thunder shock, in the brooks tin
kie and the oceans PAGAN. There are
soft cadences in Bsture aud loud notes,
some OF which we cannot near At all
and others that are 50 terrific that We
cannot appreciate them.
The aDimaicuiae have their muac,
and the spicula Of hay and the globule
of water are as certainly n with
the voice OF God as the highest heavens
in which the armies OF the redeemed
celebrate their victories. When the
breath Of the flower strikes the air. and
the wing Of the freely ~eleaves it, there
is sound and there is melody; and as
to those ~utterances Of nature which
seem harsh and overwhelming, 1t is as
when you stand in the midst VI = great
orchestra, and the sound almost rends
your a because YOU are too near
10 catch the blending Of the music,
~, my friends, we stand too near the
jesolating storm and the trightful
whirlwind to catch the blending of the
music, but when that music rises 70
where God is, and the invisible beings
who float above US, then | suppose the
harmony is as sweet as tits tremendous,
In the judgment day. that day of tumult
and terror, there wilfbe no dissonance
to those who can appreciate the music.
1t will be as when sometimes q great
~Organist, in executing some great piece,
, breaks down the instrument upon
which he is playing the music. So,
when the great march OF the Judgment
day is played under the hand Of earth
quake, and storm and conhagration,
the world itself will break down with
the music that is played on it. The
! fact is, We are all deaf, or we should
e understand that the whole universe is
but one harmony-the stars Of the
night only the ivory keys Of Il great
instrument on which Gods fingers play
|. the music Of the spheres,
Music seems dependent on the law OF
acoustics and mathematics, and YET
where these laws are not understood al
all the art Is practiced. There are to
day 500 musical journals in China. Two
thousand years before Christ the Egyp
tians pracuced this art. Pythagora,
learned it. Lasus Of HermiOne wrote
essays on il. Plato and Aristotle intro
duced il into their schools, but ! hay,
not much interest in that. Ny chiefin
tereSt is an the music Of the Bible.
y The Bible, like a great harp with in
Vulnerable strings, sweptby the finger
l. Of inspiration, trem bles with it. SO fal
back as the fourth chapter of GeneSi
IL you find the first OrgaBist and harper
Of Jubal. So far back as the thirty-firE
70 chapter Of Genesis you find the frs
"a choir. All up and down the Bible yol
- find sacred mudc-at weddings, at in
y au~gurations, at the treading Of the win
press. The Hebrews understood how u
" make musical signs above the musica
teyt. When the Jews came from thei
distant homes 20 the great festivals 8
Jerusalem, they brought harp and tan
bTel and trumpet and poured along u
great Judean highways a river Of hal
~ mony untilin and around the temple tn
wealth Of a nations song and gladnes
. had accumulated. In our day we hay
a division oflabor in music, and we hay
= one man to make the hymn, anothe
man 10 make the tune, another man I
> play IL on the piano and another ma
TO sing it. Not so in Bible time
" Miriam, the sister OF Moses, after th
~ passage of the Red sea, composed
dorology, set It to music, clapped It o
a cYmbaI and at the SAME time sang I
David, the psalmist, was at the san
time poet, musical composer, harpii
il. and singer, and the majority of b
Ter rhythm goes vibrating through all u
As, ages.
rs, There were in Bible times sthnge
be instrumeDts-a harp Of three strisf
playing by fret and bow, a harp Of te
10 strings r%esounding only to the finger
81, Of the performer. Then there was Ii
ne crooked trumpet, fashioned out Of IL
1t. horn OF the OK or the ram. Then theI
Dr.. were the sistrum and the cymbal
ia. clapped IN the dance or beaten in n
II. march. There were 1900 Leyites, III
=. best men Of the country, whose onl
business it was TO look after the mus
VI the temple.
Is These 5000 Leyites were divided int
ed two classes aud OBLIGATED on HffereI
th days. Can you imagine the harmon
se. when these white robed Leyites, befoI
Of the symbols of Gods presence and b
nix the smoking affairs and the candlssticl
that sprang upward and branched OF
like trees Of gold and under the wing
el. If the eherublm. chaDisd the Or