Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-09-02

TO pieces on the Gibraltar crags. We
see an artists multitude i'm unity" I'm
the portraits OF Sir Anthony Van
dyke and i'm the mighty mountain
peaks of Bicrdstadt and i'm the pas
toral dreams OF Millet. But, though
there may be many different tints
blending i'm the colors of rainbow or
In tie hectic flush Of a rose. did you
ever stop TO realize that ali colors come
from but three primal colors. Just the
same as all nature: All the animal ami
vegetable and mineral Kingdoms have
but sixty-six different basic elements,
of which they are all composed So
in the artistic world we find that all
colOrs originally come from but three
primary colors-the red. the yellow and
the blue Now, ii God can form the
artistic beauty of the sky. the sea. the
land. ont of the simple red, the simple
yellow and the simple violet. is il alb
surd to suppose that God can spiritual
ly make us artistically beautiful. no
matter how crude and sinful we may
be, If we only allow our thoughts and
lives to be combined In symmetry with
his thoughts and with Christ's life?
From the brilliant pictorials of an au-
tumnal leaf let us learn the spiritual
lesson for man that God hath made
and can make everything beautiful I'm
its time.
But the musicians oratory and SYM
metry of sounds have also their analo-
gies by which we can find man, in his
spiritual beauty. "in tune with the In
Unite" In the Epistle 80 the Romans
Paul writes. How beautiful are the
feet of them that preach the gospel Of
peace and glad tidings of good things"
Aye, beautiful are the feet of the Cos
pei messengers, but beautiful are the
voices also. for today we find the SYM
Dol OF mans thoughts in beautiful sym
metry with Gods thoughts. in the
sweet throat of a singing thrush, i'm
the signing OF the winds among the
leaves and In the harvest fields, in the
meanings of the seas as well as I'm the
eolors of its waters and in all the
strange yet harmonious voices OF the
woods, whether they be the calls of
the cuckoo. which musicians declare
sound the third note in music, or the
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like the voice OF the fife, is heard above
every other instrument Of the band. or
the crooninGs of the wood dove. which
the California Indians used 10 cal!
"maiella," whose song 10y day and by
twilight both TO mate and young was
one continuous whispering of Here.
love, Love. here! Here. love! Love.
here!' oh. the beautiful voices OF
blending harmonies heard I'm the
choruses of the woods, Who can ever
listen to them and not find n symbol
with the infiniter'
Elm Tune with the Infinite"
But what. according to the law OF
sound, do we mean by being lin tune
with the infiniteT' ! weIit huntiu.
some time ago. As lay IN dugout
10y water hole. hidden by the leaves,
waiting for the birds 10 come down 10
drfnk, asked myself these questions:
What is muslcI Why is il that all
these voices of the woods have such
Il wonderful influence over me? Why
does not the harsh call OF the fish
monger hawking his food ut my city
loor. or the deep voice Of the fog
horn on shipboard OF the banks OF
Newfoundland, or the rasp OF saw,
or the whining cry OF n spoiled child,
enchant me as now do the voice signal
ings OF the pheasantS, which | can
now see way of under yonder trees. or
The chirp OF the swallows flying over
my head. or the beautiful sounds that
come TO my ear rs the harpists OF the
winds finger the long. slender vines
rs though they were harp strings? Il
know that some OF the repellent cries
1 have heard from the fshmonger
Richard Wagner has reproduced In his
matchlesS operas. know the dcep
voice OF the fog horn rolls and thunders
and sweils and dies away I'm the
choruses or mapy great musical
master. i know the rasp Of n saw
can become part or n lullaby OF OF a
martial march. Then why are NOT
these different sounds ut all times
pleasing 10 my carr"
In order 10 answer the questions /
made study OF the laws OF musical
sound. Dudley Buck, the great Amerl-
can composer, taught me that sweet
music was merely succession of COM
binations or sound arranged with such
connection and mutual relations as 10
express TO the ear some distinct form
or train OF thought and awaken err
tain corresponding emotions" He told
me that music Is thought expressed
In sound. even as a great painting IN
thought expressed in color. A tumble
or colors Is daub. not u picture. A
riot OF sounds. promlscuously pushing
and Jostling each other. even as the
stronger limbed members W STAN
peding mob knock down and trample
upon the weaker, Il merely collection
or discords. 1t Is only when multi
tudes OF sounds" are marshaled to-
gether In harmonious unity" that we
nave music. SO when began 20 know
what true music meant then 4 said 10
myself: Yes. yes: now know what
Ralph Waldo Urine means when he
speaks of man being In tune with the
ipflnite.'" Man in himself may be so
distracted by sin as 10 be like n dis
cord Ia prusIc. His voice in nature
may be SO discerIAnt by reason OF HIS
as does the shrilI cry OF tue vender OH
the street. But when his nature Is
redeemed his voice falls into its right
place in the song OF creation and OF
Moses and the lamb and becomes bar
monious and melodious BY the sweet
voices OF the woods blending In per-
petuai hagmonies can you not catch
the meaning Of my text when King
Solomon declares God hath made and
Will continue TO make, ACCORDING to the
laws OF music. everything "beantifrI
in its timer
Thought Expressed In Sound.
The symnetries of straight lines and
curves in sculpture and architecture
also form analogies for mans spiritual
beauty. Wandering among the famous |
buildings of Europe, | find that, archi- |
tecturally, great building has q sym
metrical unity. just as perfect statue