The Penn's Grove record., 1920-03-26
Life's Higher
Musical Scale
The Finest Sentiments in Higher
Life Given by DR.. Green

Never Q1Q the people OF HennS GfOVe
hear a finer lecture on the higher lit
erary chords of life than that given by
DR.. Francis H. Green, of West Chester
last Friday evening in st. Paul's M. E.
Church, under the auspices of the Wo-
mans Club. Lilies Musical Scale"
was the topic and he ran the gamut to
the highest and finest rythms of
ecstatic poetic sentiment. So full of
poetry is Dr.. Green that his words and
actions indicate that his life is one
sweet song. To come in contact with
him is to have the finer chords of
ones life touched.
He said the universe was run on a
high musical scale and told how the
music of the spheres was put into
verse by the English poet Joseph Adj
Olson (1672-1719) in his poem on
Creation
The spacious armament on high,
With all the blue ethereal sky,
And spangled heavens, a shining
frame,
Their great Original proclaim:
The u%nwearied sun, from day to day,
Does his Creator power display,
And publishes to every land
The work of an almighty hand.
Soon as the evening shades prevail,
The moon takes up the wondrous tale,
And nightly, to the listening earth,
Repeats the story of her birth;
While all the stars that round her burn
And all the planets in their turn,
Confirm the tidings as they roll,
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What though in solemn silence all
Move round the dark terrestrial ball ?
What though no real voice nor sound
Amid the radiant orbs be found :?
In reasons ear they all rejoice,
And utter forth a glorious voice;
Forever singing as they shine,
"The hand that made us is divine"
-Joseph.Addison
DIR. Green said we should make life
melodious and harmonious and we
should believe what we sing. Church
choirs should not sing a lie any more
than to tell one, and to live the high
est virtues and sentiments is to be IN
tune with the infinite and to sing them.
John Wesley said: Cleanliness was
next TO Goodness 1t is Goodness.
II helps to bring good health and bet
fer physical development. SHAKESPEARE
saws: GOOD digestion wait on appe-
ute and health on both"
Go to the open sky and view the
beauties of the armament and listen
to the music of nature. VIM. WDrds-
worth, the English poet (~177O-lSoo)
showed how nature exercises IN com
mon life needs only to. be revealed 70
convey to the mind the sentiments Oh
the supernatural. He became not
only a poet of nature but OF human
life. Shelley saw a poem IN a SKY,
lark and Ruskin saw a poem IN a mud
middle. But most people have ears
and they hear not. Others are cross,
eyed and do not see straight n
others are near-sighted and CANNOT
see the beauties near them.
WE should learn to read not only
understandingly but read literature OF
values. John Ruskin read the Bible
th,,1 926 times and recorded the beau
ties of the mountains, clouds, leaves
and CRYSTALS in the simple language al
The Book.
Poetry is inspiration Verse is exe
piration. The world is so u Oh
beauty that it is not worth while TO
waste time on the vulgar. 1t is the
first duty of the boys and girls to get
a full command Of the English Ian,
onape. Get a harmonious intellect me
learn to play the higher musical scale
If life. Have vim, vigor, vitality n
a "a dynamic /, personal force in l life
press forward to something higher.
Hitch your wagon to a star; Have M a
benevolent spirit to help others, we
are spiritual beings and need the the
storm clouds break, when money po y
sition and power are gone, we may
retain the higher joys of eternal lie
by joining the everlasting jubilee as OF
~ whole universe. Make each day
complete and beautiful. Make life one
triumphant song.