Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-09-13

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look on on aa sudisncsE With theIf sSes
three-fourths closed aud their lips almost
shu mu milling tho praises OF God. Dur.
ing one Of my journeys I preached to ar
audience OF 1000 or 5000 people, and all the
mu sic they made together did not equal
one sKylarki People do not sleep at cor
onation, do not let us sleep when we come
20 Saviour's crowntng.
Again, remark church music must be
congregational This opportunity must
be brought down within the range OF the
whole audience. A song that the wor-
them than a sermon in Choctaw. What an
easy kind of church it must be where the
minister does all the preaching, and the
elders all the praying, and the choir all
the singing! There are but very few
churches where there are two hundred
sid forty and five singing men and singing
yOmen."
In some churches Il Is almost considered
a disturbance II man let out his voice to
full compass, and the people get up on tip
toe and look over between the spring hats
and wonder what that man Is making all
that noise about. In Syracuse In Presby-
terian church there was one member who
came to me when was the pastor OF an
other church in that city, and told me his
troube-how that ns he persisted in sing
ing on the Sabbath day committee, made
up Of the session and the choir, had come
to ask him II he would not just plr ase to
keep still! You have no right to sing.
Jonathan Edwards usei to set npart whole
days for singing. Let US wake up to this
duty.
l want to rouse you to unanimity in
Christian song that has never yet been ex
hibaed. Come, now; clear your throats
and get ready for this duty or you will
never hear the end Of this. never shall
forget hearing Frenchman sing the
'.Murseiilaise' on the Champs EIvsees,
Paris, just before the battle OF Sedan in
1870. l never saw such enthusiasm before
or since. As he sang that national air. oh,
how the Frenchman shouted Have you
ever in an English assemblage heard a band
you know something about the enthusiasm
OF national air. Now, 1 tell you that
these songs We sing Sabbath by Sabbath are
the ational airs OF the kingdom OF heaven,
and II you do not learn to sing them here,
how do you ever 81 pect to sing the song Of
Moses and the Lamb? l should not be
surprised at all II some OF the best anthems
of heaven were made up OF some OF the
best songs OF earth. May God increase
our reverence for Christian psalmody and
keep US from disgracing 1t by our indifrer-
,nce and friv olity.
When Cromweli's army went into battle.
he stood at the head OF It one day and gave
out the long meter doxology to the tune OF
the "Old Hundredth," and that great host,
, company by company, regiment by regi-
ment. division by division, joined Ia the
doxology:
Praise Goi, from whom all blessings flow;
Praise Him all creatures here below;
Praise Him above, ye heavenly host;
Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
And while they sang they marched, and
while they marched they fought, AMI while
| they fought they got the victory. Oh, men
and women OF Jesus Christ, let US 60 into
| all our conflicts singing the praises OF God
! and then, instead OF falling back, as often
we do, from defeat to defeat, we will be
marching on from victory to victory.
"Gloria In Excelsis'' is written over many
organs. Woul, that by our appreciation
Of the goodne OF God, and the mercy Of
| could have "Gloria In Excelsis' written
over all our souis. "Glory to the Father,
and to the Son. and to the Holy Ghost, as
1t was In the beginning. Is now and ever
shall be. world without end. Amenr'