Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-09-09
Let those refuse 10 sing
Who never knew our Cod.
But children OF the heavenly King
Should speak their joys abroad.
Munic Boom In the Soul.

Music Born In the SOUL
Music seems to have been born III the
soul of the natural world. The omnipo-
tent voice with which God commanded
the world into being seems to linger
vet with It's majesty and sweetness,
and YOU hear 1t in the grainfeld, in the
swoop Of the wind amid the mountain
Businesses, in 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 Mt Oil,
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 clcnycs It,
there is sound and there Is melody.
And, as to those utteranccs Of nature
which seem harsh and overwhelming
| it is as when you stand In the midst OF
n great orchestra and the sound almost
rends your ear because you are too
near to catch the blending Of the mu-
sic. So, my friends. we stand too near
| the desolatlng storm and the frightrul
| whlrlwnd to catch the blending Of the
music; but whom that music rises to
where God is. and the invisible beings
who float above us. then suppose the
| harmony is as sweet as II is tremen-
dous. In the judgment day. that day
Of tumult and terror, thore will be no
dissonance to those who can appreciate
the music. 1t will be as when some
times great organist, In executing
some great piece. breaks down the In
strument upon which he liz playing the
music. So when the great march OF the
| Judgment day Is played under the hand
of earthquake and storm and conhagra-
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
today 500 musical journals In China.
Two thousand years before Christ the
Egyptians practiccd this art. Pythag-
oras learned It. Lasus Of Hermionc
wrote essays on It, Plato and Aristo'
tie introduced it into their schools. But
I have not much interest in that. My
chief interest is in the music Of the
bible
Music of the bible.
The Bible. like great harp with IN
Vulnerable strings. swept by the fiji
gers of inspiration. trenbles with it.
So far back as the fourth chapter Of
Genesis you find the first organist and
harper-Jubal So far back as the
thirty-flrst chapter Of Genesis you
find the first choir. All up and down
the Bible you find sacred music-at
weddings, at inaugurations. at the
treading of the wine press. The He
brews understood how to make mu-
steal signs above the musical text.
When the Jews came from their dis
tant homes to the great festivals at
Jerusalem, they brought harp and
timbrel and trumpet and poured along
the great Judaean highways river OF
harmony until in and around the tent
pie the wealth Of q nations song and
gladness had accumulated. In our day
we have a division of labor in music,
and we have one man to make the
hymn, another man to make the tune
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