Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-09-13
SERMON
Rev. DR.. Calma9e

Subject: Music In Observation-Disclosures
Between Music an Art and Music rs
An Aid to Devotion National Airs of
the Kingdom OF Heaven.
rCopyrieht. Louis Klopsch. 1892.
WASHINGTON, d. O.-Dr. Talmage, In this
sermon, discusses q most attractive depart
ment Of religious worshir-the service OF
song. His idea will be received with in
terest by all who love to lift their voices In
praise In the Lords house. The text is
Nehemiah VIII, 81, "And they had two hum
dred forty and fve singing men and sing
ing women"
The best music has been rendered under
trouble. The first duet that I know any
thing of was given by Paul and Silas when
they sang praises to God and the pris oners
heard them. Tho Scotch Covenanters,
bounded by the dogs OF persecution, sang
the ps aims Of David with more spirit than
they have ever since been rendered. The
captives In the text had music left In item.
| and declare that II they could find amid
all their trials two hundred and forty and
i've 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 ana women willing to
sing the praises of God. All our churches
! need arousal on this subject. Those who
can sins must throw their souls into the
exercise, and those who cannot sing must
learn how, and 1t shall be heart to heart,
voice to voice. hymn to hymn, anthem to
anthem, and the music shall swell jubilant
with thanksgiving and tremulous with
pardon.
Have you ever noticed the construction
of the human throat as indicative Of what
! God means us to do with 1t? In only an
ordinary throat and lungs there are four
teen direct muscles and thirty indirect
muscles that can produce very great
variety Of sounds. What does that mean?
It means that you should sing! Do you
| AM IN Di N a
musical instrument as that, intends US to
keep 1t shut? Suppose some great tyrant
should get possession OF the musical In
,truments of the world and should lock up
organ OF Lucerne, and the organ at Haar-
lem, and the organ at Freibu g, and all the
other great musical instruments OF the
world. You would call such a man as that
10 monster, and yet you are more wicked II.
with the human voice, a musical instru-
ment of more wonderful adaptation than
all the musical Instruments that man ever
created, you shut 1t against the praise ol
God.
Let those refuse to sing
Who never knew our God,
But children OF the heavenly King
Should speak their joys abroad.
Music seems to have been born in the
soul OF the natural world. The omnipo-
tent voice with which God commanded the
world into being seems to linger yet with
its majesty and sweetness, and YOU hear IL
In the grainiield, in the swoop OF the wind
amid the mounta n businesses, in tbs
canarys warble and the thunder shock, in
the brooks tinkle and the oceans paean
There are soft cadenres in nature, and
loud notes, some of which We cannot hear
at all, and others that are so terrific thai
We cannot appreciate them.
, The animalculD have their music, and
the spicula OF hay and the gloSule OF watei
are as certainly resonant with the voice o.
} G od as the highess heavens in which thu
! armies Of the redeemed celebrate the
victories. When the breath of the howe
; strikes the air and the "inp "~~"a e-ad!
elea-aa st ths-S.