Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-12-29


production and the enjoyment of real
music than that marked by the use
>of voices and musical instruments.
There is music in the rustic of the
leaves in the ripping of the brook,
in the rays of sunshine, in the vol
planning of the snowflake. Music is
: produced by the striking of lofty
: emotions upon the chords of the soul
unseen and unhearo by physical
sense.
} Where is the source of music, of
} harmony? Heaven. Ever since the
morning stars began to sing together,
and all the sons of God shouted for
JOY, music has been floating through
the universe and deluging this earth
; from that blessed source of harmony
J complete. 1t has not always been
heard by mortals because, as / have
J indicated, ears have not been attuned
and souls opened to hear it. But on
that epoch-making night when the
Prince of Peace was born the heaven
" harmonieS burst Enthusiastically
J upon human ears. And ever since
: Christianity, because it has brought
J heaven nearer TO earth than any
!; other agency, in spite of its being
} warped and twisted and misrepreS-
ented by erring r1en, has been pro-
ducing music, music such as the
world never heard before that night
when the heavenly host sang on the
hills of Bethlehem. Whence have
come the symphonies and oratorios
that have inspired and exalted chris
tendon? From Heaven.
According to his own testimony,
Haydn's Creation came from above
when | think on God,' said the
reverent master, my heart is so full
of JOY that the notes dance and leap,
as it were, from my pen.' Handel
wrote the Messiah under great emo
tional stress and with tremendous
speed. His pen was utterly unable
TO keep up with his feelings in COM
position. His own testimony is, 81
did think did see all heaven before
me, and the great God himself" Is
it any wonder that his servant,
bringing him coffee in the morning
often found him weeping, and that
on the manuscript tears were often
| mixed with ink, and that the Halle
/ lujah Chorus is called by one music
| lover san explosion of incommensur-
able beauty" and that, on its first
presentation in London, King George
followed by the rest of the audience,
rose to his feet spontaneously during
the singing of the chorus.
Will we hear such music bye-and-
| bye? l think so sung by the choirs
| of voices without flaw. No catarrh
or tonsil or bronchial trouble; no
warp of soul or of life; perfect
harmony. Don't you want to hear
that music
But where is heavens Wherever
there is harmony. Who arein heaven?
Those whose lives are harmonious.
| Marlowe represents DIR. FauStus ask
ing Mephisto, "Where is hell ?" To
which be receives reply, "Where l am
| is hell ?'' Why ? Because he EN-
bodied the spirit of envy, hate, cynic-
ism, vindictiveness. Why is heaven
where harmonious souls are Because
they carry with them the spirit of
patience, kindness, self-control, love.
Some time we will escape from our
selves and our limitations, from the
chickering's and fault-findings and
childish senSitiveness that are SO pre-
valent here.
The Angels Song was prophecy of
universal harmony.
peace on Earth" they sang, "good
will among men," That idea was
first expressed in the prophecy of the
unknown prophet recorded in the
Book of Isaiah, which foretold what
the angels proclaimed; that one that
ends with the words: "They shall not
hurt nor destroy in all my holy noun
tain, etc. Never had it been thought
of before the, Christ was sighted.
And since the night those angels sang
it has been ringing down through the
.et1 III L.,
by the strife and hatred and hellish
wars among men. And it still rings
with note of triumph.
This statement seems to be con-
tradicted by recent conditions. Just
now the civilized world presents a
vast and hideous mockery. The proc
lamation of the heavenly host seems
to be repudiated. All the ingenuity
of modern brains coupled with mod |
ern scientific discovery is dedicated to |
the destruction Of property and life,
the turning of athletes into cripples, |
the replacing of comfort and peace by |
restitution, anguish and despair. |
And the shameful thing about it is |
that this condition is glCrified by a |
certain class CT enlightened men. The |
gifted spokesman of great nation |
are proclaiming that their people |
made the blunder of their history |
fourteen hundred years ago when |
they surrendered their own religion |
for that of conquered Christian Rome;
surrendered the religion of the ham, |
raer and the thunderbolt for the |
peace preaching religion of Galilee.
Now they say they are coming TO |
themselves. They will leave behind |
the discredited religion of Jesus and
will give to the world new religion,
the religion of Valor. Peace among
nations is fallacy; war is the life
and vindication of nations.
/ quote from a sympathetic inter
prefer of this dew doctrine: "Ye have
heard how in old time it was said,
Blessed are the meek, for they shall
inherit the earth; but / say unto you,
Blessed are the valiant, for they shall
make the earth their throne. And
ye have heard men say, Blessed are
the poor in spirit; but l say unto you,
Blessed are the great in soul and the
free in spirit, for they shall enter into
Valhalla. And We have heard men
say, Blessed are the peacemakers; but
say unto you, Blessed are the war
makers, for they shall be called, If
not the children of Jahye, the children
of Odin, who is greater than Jahye."
Verify, according TO this new doctrine
the only channel for the expression of
valor is through passion and hellish
hate, fire and sword, carnage and ruin.
According to it esus is back number.
The advocates of peace are spineless,
effeminate, negligible. would remind
these preachers of violence that one
of the greatest soldiers Of the nine
teenth century was one of these peace
advocates, one who said; Let Us Have
Peace" Another, likewise, who,
blunt soldier that he was, coined an
epfgram of nine letters: WAR is He'll.
/ would remind them that yaior has
a score of channels today in the fields
of peace for exercise and display.
While railroads, and mines, and steel
mills, and sky-scrapers, and automo-
biIoc and aprODlanpS and ocean