Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-02-15

and mighty harmony Is about 10 ascend
when the evil spirit spoken of in my text
the dumb devil-spreads his two wings.
one over the lips of one half the audience
and the other wing over the lips of the
other half of the audience, and the voices
roll back into the threats from which
they started, and only here and there
anything is heard, and nine-tenths of the
holy power is destroyed. and the dumb
devil as he flies away, says. Il could not
keep Isaac Watts from writing that
hymn, and | could not keep Lowell Ma
son from composing the tune to which it
is set, but smote into silence or half 81
lence the lips from which it would have
spread abroad to bless neighbOrhoods 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.
Historic Incidents of Praise.
During the cotton famine in Ian
cashire, England. when the suffering
was something terrific, as the first wagon
load Of cotton rolled in the starving peo-
pie unlocked the horses and drew the
load themselves, singing. until all Ian
cashire joined in with triumphant voices,
their cheeks sopping with tears, "Praise
God from whom all blessings flow"
When Commodore Perry. with his war
ship, the Mississippi, lay off the coast Of
Japan. he bombarded the shores. with
"Old Hundrcdth" played by the marine
band. Glorious odd Hundrcdth." cOmpOs-
ed by William Franc Of Germany in q
war prison at 10 o'clock at night. the
poor fellows far from home and wound
ed and sick and dying, one prisoner start
cd the "Old Hundredth Doxology." and
] then a score of voices Joined: then all the
prisoners on all the floors took up the ac-
claim until the building. from foundation
| to top stone, fairly Quaked with the
melOdiOus ascription. A British man-of-
! war lying off a foreign coast heard a
/ voice singing that dOXOlOgy and imme-
| diately guessed, and guessed Alright, that
! there was an Englishman in captivity to
! the MOhammedans, and in the small
/ boats the sailors rOwed to shore and burst
! into a guardhouse and set the captive
! free l do not know what tune the
trumpets Of resurrection shall play, but
1t 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 worshiping as
semblages if we could realize that near
ly all our hymns have a stirring history
That glorious hymn, "Stand Up For Je-
sus," was suggested by the last words
Of Dudley Tying, who was dying from
having his right arm torn off by thrash,
ing machine. That hymn, What q
Friend We Have In Jesus" heard
through a telephone, converted an oh
durate soul. shall We Gather at the
River" was a hymn first sung in Brook
Ign Prospect park at the children's MAY
anniversary and then started to encircl,
the world. "Where Is My Wandern.
Boy Tonight" is a song that has save,
hundreds of dissipated young men.
: Tom, the drummer boy in the army
was found crying, and an officer aske,
him what was the matter. ooh" he said
II had dream last night My sister die
ten years ago. and my mother never wa
herself again. and she died soon after
Last night | dreamed was killed in bat
tie and that mother and sister came dow
TO meet me-" After the next battle wa
over some one crossing the field heard
voice that he recognized rs the voice 0
Tom, the drummer boy, singing. Jesus
lover Of my soul" But at the end OF tn
first verse the voice became very feeble
and at the end Of the second verse
stopped, and they went up and foun
Tom, the drummer boy, leaning agains
q stump and dead.
} Ten Thousand Tongues.
That hymn "Oh. For a Thousan