The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1904-09-23


primary colors the red, the yellow ani
the blue. Now, If God can form th,
artistic beauty of the sky. the sea. tho
land, out Of the simple red. the simple
| yellow and the simple violet. is Il ali
surd 10 suppose that God can spiritual
| ~ make us artistically beautiful. ma
matter how crude and sinful we may
be, if we only allow our thoughts and
lives TO be combined in symmetry with
his thoughts ana with Christs life
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
finite" In the Epistlc 20 the Romans
Paul writes. How beautiful are the
feet Of them that preach the gospel OF
peace and glad tidlngs of good things. -
Aye, beautiful are the feet of the gOs-
pei messengers. but beautiful are the
voices also for today we find the sym
bol Of mans thoughts In beautiful sym
metry with Gods thoughts. I'm the
sweet throat OF singing thrush, I'm
the signing Of the winds among the
leaves and I'm the harvest fields. in the
meanings Of the seas as we'll as I'm the
cOlors Of its waters and In all the
strange yet harmonious voices Of the
woods
But what according TO the law Of
sound, do We mean by being "in tune
with the lnfnitcp / went hunting
some time ago. As / lay in dugout
by a water hole, hidden by the leaves.
waiting for the birds 10 come down to
drink, | asked myself these questions:
What IL musicI Why is 1t that all
these voices OF the woods have such
a wonderful influence over mef Why
does not the harsh call Of the fish
monger hawking his food nj my city
door. or the deep voice Of the fog
horn on shipboard off the banks Of
Newfoundland, or the rasp Of saw.
or the whining cry of spoiled child.
onchant me as now do the voice signal
ings Of the pheasants. which ! can
now see way Off under yonder trees. or
the chirp Of the swallows flying over
my head or the beautiful sounds that
come to my ear as the harpists Of the
winds finger the long. slender vines
as though they were harp strings? /
know that some of the rcpellcnt cries
/ have heard from the fshmonger
Richard Wagner has reproduced in his
matchless operas. know the deep
voice Of the fog horn rolls and thundcrs
and swels and dies away I'm the
choruses Of many q great musical
master. know the rasp OF saw
can become part Of lullaby or Of
martial march Then why are not
these different sounds AT all times
pleasing TO my earY
In order to answer the questions /
made n study Of the laws Of musical
sound Dudley Buck, the great Amcri-
can composer, taught me that sweet
music was merely n succession Of com
blnations of sound arranged with such
connection ana mutual relations as 10
express 10 the ear some distinct form
or train Of thought and awaken Ger
tain corresponding emotions" He told
me that music is thought expressed
In sound. even as q great painting II
thought expressed I'm color. A jumble |
Df colors is daub, not picture \
riot Of sounds. prOmiscuously pushing |
md jostling each other, even as the |
stronger limbed members of STAN |
Deding mob knock down and trample |
upon the weaker. is merely collection |
)f dlscords Man himself may be so |
distracted by sin as to be like a dis
,Ord in music His voice I'm nature |
nay be so discOrdant 10y reason of his |
corrupt condition as 10 rend the ear |
is does the shrill cry OF the yender on
he street. But when his nature is
edeemed his voice falls into It's right |
,lace in the song of creation and Of
Noses and the lamb and becomes har-
nonious and melodious. by the sweet
'Olces Of the woods blending I'm per
Detual harmOnies can you not catch
he meaning Of my text when King
solomon declares God hath made and
viii continue to make. according 10 the
avs Of music, everything beautiful
n its timer
The symmetries Of straight lines and
urves I'm sculpture and architecture
lso form analogies for mans spiritual
eauty. Wandering among the famous
Of Europe, find That, archi-
ecturally, n great building hns n sym
letrical unity, just as a perfect statue
! chiseled after the physical forma-
ions Of n perfect man. Many years
20 there was exhumed from the
urled ruins OF old Rome a marble
ag, broken from of one Of the statues
( old. That broken fragment Is still
reserved I'm the Vatican. Michael An
elo, as n sculptor, used 10 study that
* by the day, the week, the month
nd the year. because" said the great
Italian master, Il consider that piece
Z stone the most perfect formation OF
hysIcal anatomy ever carved by the
hlsel Of man" So symmetrlcally per
ect may the lines and the curves Of
great group Of statuary be that
hen you look at some Of the best ex-
IMPLIES Of sculpture In the Louvre, the
atlcan or the British museum the
CURES almost seem as though their
~ euorsoS -.---~-.- -~~-
lungs are breathing and their lips ar
ready to speak.
Now, the symmetrical laws observes
IN true sculpture are also found TO ex
st I'm true architecture. A great build
II like Christopher Wren did not star
n TO erect St. Paups cathedral at hap
hazard. Every part Of the walls, thu
lone and the capstone were carefully
Ind harmoniously designed and prop
,rly proportioned before one spadefu {
II dirt was dug out Of the heart o
mother earth TO excavate the cellars o.
.ondOn's architectural pride. And the
wonderful part Of the masterfully de I
igned buildings Of Europe is how dc (
eptive they are as 20 their size wheI
lrst seen by the human eye. WheI
ne sees the dome Of St Peters
rome lifting itself toward the skies. Or
la cpfroc ~ tho Tofogua oofhadro