The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1913-06-13
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years, singing the simple slave songs
Oh our people, beautifully called the
crystahzea teays ana passion flowers
OF the slave cabin.
The spiritual life of our little COM
pany was sustained by prayer. Wor-
snip always preceded the work OF the
Gay anu Gods blessing was asked
upon each concert.
There came a time that We must
have a name; special prayer was Of
fered, in which our leader, Mr.. White,
tarrie0 at the mercy seat all night,
and toward morning he opened his
Bible to the Scripture about the Jew
ish year of Jubilee and later he came
in with beaming face and said, Chill
uren, you shall be called Jubilee
singers. Six months later we re-
turned to Nashville with twenty
thousand dollars, with which we
bought the present site of Fisk Uni
versity. We sang at the great Worlds
Peace Jubilee in Boston in 1872, where
there was a choir of twenty thousand
voices and instruments and an audi
ence of forty thousand people. We
sang the verse of the Battle Hymn
of the Republic:
HE hath sounded forth the trumpet
That shall never call retreat"
Our voices were heard to the re-
hottest cornr of that great coliseum
seating forty thousand people. The
audience went wild with rejoicing;
women cried out; men shouted, and
one musician held his bass violincello
aloft ana whacking it with his bow
cried out, brave, brave" The leader
and great composer, Strauss, waved
his bow i'm admiration. Five of the
next six years were spent abroad. We
crossed the Atlantic four times and
travelled throughout the British Isles
and most of the Continental Empire,
singing to the Christian and phian-
thropic public not only to raise funds
for our school, but in the higher Ser
vice of Christian evangelism and
charitable work in song in behalf OF
the poor and the outcasts in the cities
and towns. We sang in hospitals,
jails and asylums of every descrip-
ton. Everywhere our soul music car
ried it message of comfort and hope.
Nine of the crowned heads of Europe
and their families and friends heard
Us with delight. Queen Victoria in-
formed us and also wrote to her
daughter, the crowned princess of
Germany, the mother of the present
Emperor William, that we had great.
ly comforted her more than anything
since the death of the consort Prince
Albert, ten years before. Souls We're
converted under our singing. We Of
ten assisted in evangelistic work and
we also gave a month Of our vaca
tion at the services of MeSsrs. MOODY
and Sanky, singing daily to an audi
ence of ten to twelve thousand souli
in East London. Thousands were con
vcrted during tho meetings One mar
who died soon after said that he Wen
J to hear the preaching, but the singing
had saved his soul. Once we surprised
Mr.. Moody during a meeting, arriv
ing late and unexpected. We wen
, into the small fifth gallery during tn
praise following an earnest appeal t
sinners by Mr.. Moody. While 81
heads were bowed he said, Let ever,
, body pray and NAV the ANGELS corr,
the message of pardoned sim Whel
; he prayed we softly sang "There ar
: angels lowering round to carry tn
tdings home" The effect was wor
Gerful and most impressive. So~1
s people said that for moment wv
n really thought the music came fror
, an angel band"
In 1878, when We returned HON
we had not only raised 100000 70
Fisk University, but had made thou
sands of friends for our race an
loved school, who sent gifts of ever
kind, including furniture, books, etc
to help furnish Jubilee Hall, our mi
mortal building. For fifty years til
great bell, a gift with our names il
Scribed thereon has rung out il
musical summons to the youth of OF
race to prepare for their life wor
of uplifting and regenerating.
Georgia and | had other plans f.
working together again for Fisk "
had hoped to raise the money to buil
at least one building for the Geors
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the splendid work of the musical
partment of Fisk might be housed ar
enlarged so that it might carry {
its work more effectively under bt
ter conditions. But other needs
Fisk have demanded immediate !
lief. and Mrs. Taylors failing heal
delayed our beginning this campaig
Mrs. Taylor's quiet, unassumin
cheerful spirit never failed us in {
Of our struggles, and she did VIII
she could in every way to pass
'i' what she had enjoyed to others, a
70 her work will continue to bear fri
no in the years to come. She longed
or a quiet home mere. She now re!
on in better home not made with han
M. eternal in the heavens was with /
M. as she was nearing the great WIN
city, but she was unconscious Of q
w. presence and knew not that those W
re loved her watched her homegoi
,,s She is now satisfied, for she is Ii
rot her Saviour and in his presence.
he In loving remembrance,
-, ELLA SHEPPARD MOORE.