Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-27
SONG OF THE ANGELS
THEME OF SERMON By BISHOP
EARL cRAngToH.
Dedication of Pip organ at Union M.
e. Church--Balance Of Pur-
chase Fund Subscribed.

A service of special interest and signifi-
canoe was held yesterday morning at
Union Methodist Episcopal Church on Goth
street near Pennsylvania avenue northwest.
The sermon was delivered by Bishop Earl
Cranston, resident in this district, and q
new pipe organ was dedicated with appro-
pirate exercises. The auditorium was
crowded with the members of the church
and visitors. Special mucis was furnished
by a chorus choir of twelve voices.
The feature of the morning was the
raising by subscription of $495-the balance
Of the expense of $l,65O incident to the In
stallation Of the new organ-within thirty
minutes. This portion of the service was
supervised by the bishop and the pastor.
Rev. s. Reese Murray, assisted by the fol-
lowing committee: Judge Anson s. Taylor,
Messrs. E. s. Wescott, w. L. Stuard, Fred
c. Linger and Jesse r Crawford, Miss
Nellie Ross, Mrs. Manning Fernandez and
Mrs. Grace Hunt.
Bishop Cranston spoke of 1.-The Song of
the Angles" his text being "GIory to Cod
on earth peace, good will to men," The
thought upon which he dwelt chiefly was
that the harmony between God and man
in tie spiritual music Of the universe
Harmony in Music.
Music is harmony and sin is discord," he
but there, as in China, teach those same
wherever one may go, he will find that
men try to sing" He described visit he
once made to theological seminary in
India, where the native musicians in their
primitive way, brought harmony as they
understood it, from their crude instruments.
People of this country. with their cultured
sense of art, would not recognize their eff
forts as music but 1t was music to them.
And so, he said, it is in China, where the
piteous wall of the songs of the Orient
G,,Jc fha toto Jr%f
of the populace. Likewise in Korea where
the people are so poor in religious spirit
that all their music Is cast in minor keys;
but there. as in China. teach those same
wailing children of the east to sing ON
ward Christian Soldier and their faces
become lighted up with the fire of spiritual
harmony, and the dirge tones are lost in
the new chord of joyous Christian music.
Religion" Bishop Cranston asserted,
has been wonderful inspiration for
music. and on the other hand the churches
are dependent in large measure on song for
the spreading of their work. Still, where
would music be today but for the won
derful theme of Christianity which has
grown into it's very soul and made it an
uplifter of mankind?
Union Of God and Man.
Harmony, as it signifies the union of
God and man, is that note of spiritual
music which is at the very top notch of
the scale of the spiritual life, and, just as
the other returns the sound that the mas
ter musician seeks when he strikes given
key so that angelic soul music responds
with what is asked by him who turns in
faith to God. He who turns to his Father
and strikes the note of spiritual harmony
will be thrilled when he hears the song of
the angels. He will revel in the strains of
Peace on earth, good viii to men, for God
sends back through the spiritual atmos-
phere what a man asks for. A perfect
touch gives back a perfect sound if you
have perfect instrument.
There is no short road to perfection,
whether it be on the piano, the cornet or
the violin; one cannot learn to play music
in day. and neither can eminence be at
tanned in letters in a day. Success means
years of struggle and toll before the heights
are climbed and perfection is reached in
these things, and the same rule applies in
that sweet music of thezspirit. y
II used to think when l was child that
there was no name sweeter than that of
mother, and think so yet, but there comes
into a mans life time when even that hal
lowed name cannot shield him, and it Is
then that Jesus in whose very name there
Is music, comes to US.