Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1901-02-16

have spread abroad to bless neighbor-
hoods and cities and then mount the
wide open heavens" Give the long
meter doxology the full support Of
Christendom and those four lines
would take the whole earth for God.
The Power of Song.
During the cotton famine In Lanca-
shire. England. when the suffering was
something terrific. as the first wagon
load Of cotton rolled In the starving
people unlocked the horses and drew
the load themselves. singing until all
Lancashire Joined In with triumphant
voices. their cheeks sopping with tears.
praise God. from whom ali bless
ings flow" When Commodore Perry.
with his warship. the Mississippi, lay
off the coast Of Japan. he bonn mbarded
the shores with "Old Hundredth" play
ed by the marine band Glorious "Old
Hundredth," composed by william
Franc Of Germany! In a war prison at
10 o'clock at night. the poor fellows far
from home and wounded and sick and
dying one prisoner started the "Old
Hundredth Doxology." and then score
Of voices Joined. then all the prisoners
on all the floors took up the acclaim un-
til the building. from foundation TO top
stone. fairly quaked with the melodlous
ascription. A British man-of war lying
Off a foreign coast heard voice sing
ing that doxology and Immediately
guessed and guessed Alright that there
was an Englishman In captivity to the
Mohammedans. and In the small boats
the sailors rowed 10 shore and burst
into a guardhouse and set the captive
free. | do not know what tune the
trumpets Of resurrection shall play, but
it may be the doxology which Is now
sounding across Christendom. How
much more hearty we would be In our
songs and how easily we could drive
back the dumb devil from all our wor-
Shipping assemblages II we could realize
that nearly all our hymns have a stir
ring history. That glorious hymn,
"Stand Up For Jesus" was suggested
by the last words Of Dudley Tying. who
was dying from having his right arm
torn off by a thrashlng machine. That
hymn. what a Friend We Have In Je-
sus," heard through a telephone, con-
yerted an obdurate soul. "Shall We
Gather at the RIver2" was hymn first
sung in Brooklyn Prospect park at the
childrens May anniversary and then
started to encrcle the world. where
Is My Wandering Boy Tonlghtr' Is a
song that has sayed hundreds Of dlssi-
pated young men.
Tom. the drummer boy in the army,
was found crying, and an officer asked
him what was the matter. oh" he
said. 81 had a dream last night My
sister died ten years ago. and my moth
er never was herself again. and she
died soon after. Last night | dreamed
I was killed in battle and that mother
and sister came down to meet me"
After the next battle was over some
one crossing the field heard a voice
that he recognized as the voice OF Tom.
the drummer boy. singing. Jesus,
Lover OF My Soul. But at the end Of
the first verse the voice became very
feeble, and at the end Of the second
verse It stopped. and they went up and
found Tom. the drummer boy. leaning
against a stump and dead.
Lrive Out the Dumb Devil.
That hymn 20 For a Thousand
Tongues to Sing" was suggested to
Charles Wesley by Peter Boiler. who.
after his conversion. said. 81 had better
keep silent about It," NO" sald Wes-
ley. "If you had 10000 tongues. you
had better use them for Christ" And
then that angel Of hymnology penned
the words:
Oh, for thousand tongues to sing
Ny dear Redeemer's praise,
The glories Of my God and King.
The triumphs Of his grace
Jesus. the name that ealms our fears
That bids our sorows cease;
IT'S music In the sinners ears;
IT'S life and health and peace.
While much Of the modern music Is
religious doggerel. consecrated non
sense. a sacred lmbeclllty. | would
like to see some great musician Of our
time lift the baton and marshal Lu-
theirs Judgment Hymn. Yarmouth.
Dundee, Ariel. Brattlestreet. Uxbridge.
Pleyers Hymn. Harwell. Antioch
Mount Pisgah and Coronation. with
few regiments of mighty tunes made
I'm our own time. and storm Asia, Ar
rica and America for the kingdom OF
God. But the first thing to do is to
drive out the dumb devil Of the text
from all our churches.
DO not. however. let us lose ourselves
in generalities. Not one OF us but has
had our lives sometimes touched by
the evil spirit Of the text-thls awful
dumb devil. We had just one opportu'
nifty Of saying a Christian word that
might have led a man or woman into
a Christian life. The opportunity was
fairly put before US. The word OF In
yitation or consolation or warning
came to the inside gate Of the mouth.
but there It halted. Some hlndering
power locked the jaws together so that
they did not open. The tongue lay
fat and still in the bottom Of the
mouth as though struck with paralysis.
We were mute. Though God had given
us the physiological apparatus for
speech and our lungs were filled with
air which, by the command Of our Will,
could have made the laryngeal muscles
move and the vocal organs vibrate, we
were wickedly and fatally silent. For
all time and eternity we missed our
chance Or it was prayer meeting,
and the service was thrown open for
prayer and remarks, and there was a
dead halt-everythlng silent as grave
yard at midnight. Indeed, 1t was a
graveyard and midnight An embar-
RAISING pause took place that put wet
blanket on all the meeting. Men, bold
enough on business exchange or In
worldly circles, shut their eyes as