The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-02

temple stands; but we have also repre-
sentatives from our -naighporing city OF
st. Paul, witnesses that the bonds Of fra
ternity between us are constantly
discords are dead. It Is also our supreme
good fortune to greet the governor of our
state, who stands, in the larger politics,
for all that the mayor of this city repre-
sents in the municipality; who believes
that honor and integrity belong to the
public office as well as to the private
business; who believes that righteousness.
which is harmony with moral law, Is one
with all the harmonies of truth and beauty
turnout the universe. And while we are
about It, let us go just step further, and
give this opening occasion q national Sig
nihcance. On next Saturday-remember
it will be the 4th Of March, thou
sand school children will sing upon this
stage. They are to sing America" and
Star Spangled Banner" and they will
sing all the more gloriously because they
know that, at that time, the president Of
the United States will already have taken
for the second time the oath of allegiance,
and bound himself to be in the future, as
he has been In the past, the president Of
all the people Of the United States, and
to execute the laws Of his country among
Of the people, for the people, and by the
people. will not perish while Theodore
Roosevelt lives in the White House.
And, now. we take the work Of archi-
| tects and builders and dedicate this tenn
pie to the service Of the higher life OF
minneapolis and Of the whole northwest.
We dedicate 1t to the art Of the actor
the musician, the orator; we dedicate II
to all that Is good. to all the noble and
inspiring forces Of life. Tonight we arc
thinking Of music most Of all. Here ir
the northwest alien races and nations
mingle. Different languages are spoken
But from this stage will be heard a Ian
guage all can understand. The genius o.
the human race, so runs an old fable, once
appeared before Jove and said: might!
father, give thy poor mortals a bette!
language. for now they have naught bu
words when they would tell how the!
mourn. rejoice or love-"
Have I not given these tears" sal,
Jupiter, 1.-The tear Of Joy, Of grief, Of love 2
But" answered the genius, "even tear
can not fully cypress the heart. Give then
a better tongue, in which to clothe thei
emotions when the morning star of child
hood Is rising again on their hearts, whe
the ruddy warmth Of their youth is re
Elected before them and when in old ag
. the golden clouds Of another life han
glowing and high above the departin
sun. Give their hearts another tongue
my father" Just then Jupiter heard tn
music Of melody approaching in the celes
! tia1 spheres, and said: go thou, descen
among men and teach them to speak tn
! language" Then she descended upo
, earth and now the heart has languag,
It does not have to be translated to b
understood. TO the American Goethe
. German is sealed book. Not so Moza,
and Beethoven. Music in its essence,
not English, German or italian, but hi
man. It is understood by people al,
races who do not understand each otht
without an interpreter in any othe
+ sphere.
And may we not, finally, dedicate tn
temple to the spirit and source Of q
I truth and beauty and harmony? Say
Richard Wagner. II have found true a
,;: to be one with true religion" And, agai
}, Music IS the living God in our bosom
" When Haydn, In his old age, heard IL
d mighty passage, Let there be light"
-! i, flung up both his hands and, weepin
~ cried, mot from me, but from above
CAME II well know" said Beethove
that God is near to me in my art ''IIo
- did you feel" an friend asked Hand,
% when you were composing the Hall
- lujah chorus?" II thought" answer
H. Handel. that saw heaven open befo
me and the great God himself upon h
- throne" And so to his art-to that viii
~ opens heaven and gives US a. glimpse
10 Its glories and joys-to music and to
- that inspires, to all that lifts us for t
~ time above this commonplace earth a.
III gives US ray or two of the beatiac visic
~ we dedicate this temple OF beauty a,
8 harmony. May Its walls and pillars sta
~ forever, and within its courts may tho
40 sands after US find help and Joy.