Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-05-24

Music is not of one cline merely or
one nationality. The enhancing
melody sung in Italy does not lose its
charm when brought to the hills and
valleys of our own land.
Perhaps in no country is there a
more universal appreciation of music
than in our own, and the best known
and recognized with critical Judge
ment.
Music surely has a mission in the
world or it never would have been
placed here.
What a great mission it has in a
religious sense. How many persons
have been converted by a single song.
Many hard wicked hearts have been
softened and made,pu by music.
Longfellow says:
God sent his singers upon earth.
With eones of gladness and of mirth,
That they might touch the hearts of men,
Ard bril- them back to Heaven again.
In having singers in the church
many people come to hear the music
and in this way they are brought
where they hear the word of God and
something that will make them better
persons. A hymn is message to God
in music. And the best of prayer
may be made in song.
Music has mission in the school.
How much better it is to begin the
days work with few songs. 1t not
only Gains and sootheS but it gives the
scholars hope, courage and purpose.
Their minds will be filled with happy
thoughts instead Of unkind and I'M
pleasant ones.
The wooer can tell you of one miSSi-
on of music. 1t aids him in expressing
his deep affection for his lady love.
Many the words of love he may have
sung under her window. How she
would listen to the sweet music which
came to her. Words with music
speak more than words alone.
What is the mission of music in the
home? Take two homes, one in which
you can always hear music of some
kind, and the other where music is
unknown. You find that home the
happier where some one can sing or
play for you, if it is nothing but a
simple little tune.
Women and men tighten their
labOrS by singing. The workman goes
gladly to his work and when the days
work is done, his tools laid aside, and
he is on his way home, his wife, child
and comfortable room, and supper
awaiting him. how can he help having
music in his heart to break forth so
often into the merry whistle or some
familiar song.
Silence and worrying, and not the
merry song or whistle, give people
time to think Of doipg wrong. How
much pleasanter it would b6 for our
selves and those around us if we would
sing some song instead of scolding and
fretting. 1t would make every one
feel better and more like working.
Each of US has sorrow as well as Joy,
and there are tones of music for all
our different moods, and this no doubt
accounts for the great power and eff
feet music has upon the human soul.
1t has been said that Emusic is the
speech OF angels" it is no less true
that it is the natural language of the
human heart.
Music is not lasting as J. G.. Holland
says-"Its living is its dying, it gusheS
forth and is drunk up by the thirsty
silenceS. 1t is thing of the soul, a
rose dipped shell that murmurs of the
eternal sea-a strange bird singing
the songs of another shore. -
How often we hear some of the old
time favorites such as "Home Sweet
Home, " ''Old Folks at Home" etc.
they are always popular and pleasing.
These sweet melodies echo from the
past and awaken thrilling response
in every heart. They carry us back
to the scenes that cannot be forgotten
and awaken memories that are ten
derby cherished.
''Of all the arts beneath the heaven. q
That man has found God has given.
None draws the soul go sweet away
AS music's melting, mystic lay
Music which is numbered among the
first of the arts surely has a great
mission.
1t is music that brightens the home,
cheers the heart, entertains the social
circle, thrills the public assembly and
charms multitudes with the harmony
of sweet sounds.