The Newtown bee., 1902-08-01

hymn or symphony, but the satisfac- tion one gets from it is like looking at the picture of friend, it is not his living presence. If the living soul be not back of 1t and expressing through the externalS of the art it's own deep emotion, it not only loses for him who listens it's won derful charm, it fails to do for the singer and performer him . self all of which it is cap able.
 Music is the expression of hum n emotion, and as our emotions are many, so music has it's manifold char acterS. It may express our mere an- imal passions, our merely human emotions. The bacchanalian song, the sensuOuS air, as they awake the pas sions, sU they are their fit expression.
 Love and hate, and the cXuberance of
 youth and animal spirits are all ex-
 pressed in tender lyric or martial song,
 or the dance. So music in itself is no
 more sacred than human nature is
 sacred. But there are deeper and higher emotions in us than these. The love of God in Christ, the sense of sin,
 the joy of forgiveness, the felt pres once of God in the life. the opening of eternity, the glory and beauty of OuS PiSoOA1CC3 ChSoS tAo oiASJ "AS human and fitted to our nature, so are they divine, as they are wrought in us by Gods Holy Spirit, and these, too, must have their expression. So we have sacred music, as the di- vine nature has touched our own, so the deepest things of God come into the human and this music has perfection as it's goal. and can never pass away. Music is the immor- tai art. For we shall use it to express our deepest joys around the throne of God.
 And so we come, with this view of idea of such a gift is and what uses it subserves in the public worship of Almighty God.
 It has then passed it's personal side, it's side towards the individual. It is an art to be learned, to be practiSed. It has it's masters who know it's laws and who can train and practice us in it's just and true performance, it's skilled vOtarieS whose part it is to lead us and bring forth in us those latent emotions, of which we are not yet even conscious. Therefore in pulp lie worship, as there is need to awaken or love and adoration, so we need the maSterful musician to make the organ and every instrument of music to bring forth and express what we know not how to express ourselves, but which when expressed aWakenS an answering chord in our hearts and lifts them up to God. And so there is need for the anthem and all that is grand and per feet in the art, in which, though our lips join not, it causes us to sing and make melody in our hearts. And I suppose that as there are diversities of gifts, so there will ever be in Christian worship, at least so long as it is offered by imperfect men here on earth, place for the higher music-which those can alone express who have themselves developed those emotions and cultivated those powers which give them fitted expression.
 }. But this is only one function of sacred music, what might be called it's teaching or leading function. It has a higher, and that is to cause us to express those emotions, which have been awakened. As the skilled muSi- clan grows in depth of feeling by ex- pression of which he feels, so every man, as the depths of his soul are stirred, wants and needs, and puts those feelings into outward expression. And further, the great emotions of the soul are the same in us alf uCICIOIC lO lS IlO DclUUllilS Ol Ullc dFU of the masters of sacred music to lead those who are less skilled than them selves in just and fitting expression of those emotions of which the whole congregation is capable. So the chorus, as well as the single voice, the grand and sacred hymns in which all can join, are the chief purpose of sacred music. "Let the people praise thee, o God. Yea, let all the people praise thee."
 3. And now in this view of the pur- pose of sacred music, what shall we say is it's chief source and pOWer It can only be the cultivation of those emotions which are to be expressed in music. "I will sing with the spirit as How can one express that which is not in him? There is lack, and there must be lack, in that music which sets fOrth-we cannot say which ex- presses, for one cannot express what is not in him, but which sets forth emotions to which his own heart is a stranger Such music may be artistic, but it is not real. There is no soul. the trueSt test of all art is never the praise for it's author which it evokes. Before a noble picture we do not think of the skill of the artist. This lies on the surface. of sublimity or beauty which at all, it is of the great soul of the man. When men praise a great polit- ical speech or a sermon they are rarely hu nP bn Cfnfo