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I j MUSIC IN WORSHIP. DR. TALMAGE THINKS MUSIC WAS BORN IN THE SOUL. Distinction Between 3Ialc an n Art nod Sialic m n Aid to Devotion. , National AI of the Kingdom of Heaven. Copyright, Louis Klopsch, l99.j : Washington, Sept. 3.r-Dr. Talmage today discusses a most attractive de partment of religious worship the service of song. His idea will be re ceived with Interest by all who love to lift their voices in praise in the Lord's house. The text Is Nebemlah vli 67, "And they had two hundred forty and five singing men and sing ing women." . j V The best music" has been rendered under trouble. The first duet that I know anything of was given by Paul and SiJas when they- sang praises to God and the prisoners neara mey. he Scotch Covenanters, hounded by the dogs of persecution, sang the . w f 1 I iU mma vlt VlOTl psaims oi va.vm wuu uiwc b. v hara otrr Rinre been rendered. UiCJ . v. The captives in the' text had music left In them,and I declare that if they ;qould find amid all their trials two hundred and forty and five singing men and singing women then in this day of gospel sunlight and free from all persecution there ought to be a great1 multitude of men and women willing to sing the praises of God. All our churches need arousal on this sub ject Those who can sing must throw their souls into the exercise, and those who cannot sing must learn how, and It shall be heart to heart, voice to voice, hymn to hymn, aninem io au-. them, and the music shall swell jubi lant with thanksgiving and tremulous with paraon. Have you ever noticed the construc tion of the human throat as indicative of what God means us tojdo with it? In only an ordinary throat and lungs there are 14 direct muscles and 30 In direct muscles that can produce a very great variety of sounds. What does that mean? It-means that you should sing! Do you suppose that God, who gives us such a musical instrument as that, Intends us to keep it shut? Sup pose some great tyrant should get pos session of-the musical instruments of the world" and should lock up the organ of Westminster abbey, and the organ of Lucerne, and the organ at Haarlem, and the organ at Freiburg, and all the other great musical instru ments of the world. Tou would call such a man as that a monster, and yet you are more wicked if, with the hu man voice, a musical instrument of more wonderful adaptation than all the musical instruments that man ever created, you shut it against the praise iax tnoae reruse to Ring Who never knew our God, But children of the heavenly Kins Should speak their Joys abroad. Mnalc Dora In the Soul Music seems to have been born in the aii1 rt fVio n a tnrfl 1 vrnrld Tho nmnlnn. tent voice with which God commanded the world into being seems to linger yet with its majesty and sweetness, and you hear it in the gralnfield, in the swoop or tne wind amia tne mountain fastnesses, in the canary's warble and the thunder shock, in the brook's tinkle and the ocean's paean. There are soft cadences in .nature, and loud notes, some of which we cannot hear at all," and others that are so terrific that we cannot appreciate them. The animalculae have their music, and the splcula of hay and the globule of water are as certainly resonant with the voice of God as the highest heavens in which the armies of the re deemed celebrate their victories. When the breath of the flower strikes the air and the wing of the firefly cleaves it, there is sound and there is melody, And, as to those utterances of nature which seem harsh and overwhelming, it is as when you stand in the midst of a great orchestra and the sound almost rends your ear because you are too near to catch thel)lending of the mu sic So, my friends, we stand too near the desolating storm and the frightful whirlwind to catch the blending of the .music; but when that music rises to where God is, and the invisible beings who float above us, then I suppose the liarmony is as sweet as it is tremen dous. In the judgment day, that day -of .tumult and terror, there will be no dissonance to those who can appreciate the music It will be as whetf7 some times "a great organist, in executing some great piece, breaks down the in strument upon "Which he is playing the music. So when the great march of the Judgment day is played under the hand of earthquake and storm and conflagra tion the world itself will break down with the music jthat is played on it. The fact is, we are all deaf, or we should understand that the whole uni verse is oui one narmony the stars of the night only the Ivory keys of a great instrument on which God's fin gers play the music of the spheres. Music seems dependent on -the law of acoustics and mathematics, and yet where these laws are not understood at all the art Is practiced. There are today 600 musical journals In China. Two thousand years before Christ the Egyptians practiced this art. Pythag oras learned it. Lasus of Hermione wrote essays on it. Plato and Aristo tle introduced t Into their schools. But I have not much interest In that. My chief interest is In the music of the Bible. - Mnsio of the Dlble. j.ne I5ible, llke a great harp with In numerable StrinffSL RWPnt hr tVia . O ml uu ijers of inspiration, trembles with it. So far back as the fourth chapter of Genesis you find the first organist and harper JubaL So far back as the thirty-first chapter of Genesis you tnd the first choir. All up and down the Bible you find sacred music at wedding at Inaugurations, at the treading of the wine press. The He brews understood how-to make mu sical signs above the Smuslcal text. When the Jews came from their dis tant homes to the great festivals) at Jerusalem, they, brought harp and timbrel and trumpet and poured along the great Judaean highways a river of harmony until in and around the tem ple the wealth of a nation's song and gladness had accumulated. In our day we have a division of labor in music, and e have one man to make , the hymn, another man to make the tune, another man to play It on the piano and another man to sing It. Not so in Bible times. Miriam, the sister of Moses, after the passage of the Red sea, composed a doxology, set It j to music, clapped It on a cymbal and) at the same time sang it. David, the psalmist, was at the same time poet, musical composer, harpist and singer, and the majority of his rhythm goes vibrating through all the ages. 4 ! tThere were In Bible times stringed instruments a harp or tnree strings played by fret and bow; a harp of ten strings, responding only to the fingers of the performer. Then there was he crooked trumpet, fashioned out of the horn of the ox or the ram. Then there were the sistrum and the cymbals, clapped In the dance or beaten In the march There were 4,000 Levites, the best men of the country whose only business It was to look after the music of the temple. These 4,000 Levites were divided into two classes and officiated on different days. Can you imagine the harmony when these white robed Le vites, before the symbols of God's pres ence, and by the smoking altars, and the candlesticks that sprang upward and branched out like trees of gold, and under the wings of the cherubim, chanted the One Hundred and Thirty sixth Psalm of David? Do you know how it was done? One part of that great choir stood up and chanted, "Oh, give thanks unto the Lord, for he Is goodr Then the other part of the choir, standing in some other part j of the temple, would come in with the response, "For his mercy endure th for ever." Then the "first part would take up the song again and say, "Unto him who only doeth great wonders." The other part of the choir would come; in with overwhelming response, "For his mercy endurest forever," until In the latter part of the song, the musk: float ing backward and forward, harmony grappling with harmony, every trum pet sounding, every bosom heaving, one part of this great white robed choir would lift the anthem, "Oh, give thanks unto the God of heaven," and the other part of the Levite choir would come in with the response, "For his mercy endureth forever Truth In Sonar. But I am glad to know that all through the ages there has' been great attention paid to sacred music Am brosius, Augustine, Gregory the Great, Charlemagne gave it their mighty influence, and in our day the best mu sical genius is "throwing itself on the altars of God. Handel and Mozart and Bach and Durante and Wolf and scores of other men and women have given the best part of their genius to church music. A truth in words is not half so mighty as a truth in song. Luther's sermons have been forgotten, but the "Judgment Hymn" he com posed is resounding yet all through Christendom. j 1 congratulate the world and the church on the advancement made in this art the Edinburgh societies for the improvement of music, the Swiss singing societies, the Exeter hall con certs, the triennial musical convoca tion at Dusseldorf, Germany, and Bir mingham, England, the conservatories of music at Munich and Leipsic, the Handel and Haydn and Harmonic ind Mozart societies of this country, the academies of music in New York, Brooklyn, Boston, Charleston, New Orleans, Chicago and every city which has any enterprise. H Now, my friends, how are we to de cide what is appropriate, especially for church music? There may be a great many differences of opinion. In so:ik of the churches they prefer a trained choir; in others, the old style precentor. In some places they prefer the melodeon, the harp, the cornet, the organ. In other places they think these things are the invention of ihe devil. Some would have a musical In strument played so loud you cannot stand it, and others would have j it played so soft you cannot hear j it. Some think a musical instrument ought to be played only in the inter stices of worship and then with j in describable softness, while others are not satisfied unless there be startling contrasts and staccato passages that make the audience jump, with great eyes and hair on end, as from a vision of the witch of Endor. But, while there may be great varieties of opin ion in regard to music. It seems to. me that the general spirit of the Aord of God indicates what ought to be the great characteristics of church music AdaptlTeneaa to Devotion. j And I remark, in the first place,! a prominent characteristic ought tofbe adaptiveness to devotion. Music that may be appropriaterfor a concert hall, or the opera house,- or the drawing room, may be Inappropriate in church. Glees, madrigals, ballads may be as innocent as psalms In their places. But church music has only one design, and that is devotion, and that which comes with the toss, the swing and the display of an opera house is a hin drance to the worship. From such per formances we go away saying: "What splendid execution I Did you ever hear such a soprano?' Which of those solos did you like the better?" When, if we had been rightly wrought upon, we would have gone away saying: "Oh, how my soul was lifted up in the pres ence of God while they were singing that first hymn! ' I never lhad such rapturous views of Jesus Christ as my Saviour as jwhen they were singing that last doxology." My friends, there is an everlasting distinction between music as an art and music as a help to' devotion. Though a Schumann composed it. though a Mozart played it, though a Sontag sang it, away with it If It does not make the heart better and honor Christ. Why should we rob the programmes of worldly gayety when when we have so many appropriate songs and tunes composed in our own day, as well as that magnificent inheritance of church psalmody which has come down fra grant with the devotions of other gen erationstunes no more worn out than they were when our great-grandfathers climbed up on them from the church pew to glory? Dear old souls, how they used to sing! When they were cheerful, our grandfathers and grand mothers used to sing "Colchester. When they were very meditative, then the . boarded meeting house rang with "South Street" and "St. Ed mund's." Were they struck through with great tenderness, they .' sang "Woodstock," Were they, wrapped in visions of tho glory of the church, they sang "Zion." Were they overborne with the love and glory of Christ they sang "Ariel." And In those days there were certain tunes married to certain hymns, and they have lived in peace a great while, these two old people, and we have no right to divorce them. "What God hath joined together let no man put asun der." Born as we have been amid this great wealth of church music, aug mented by the compositions of artists in our day, we ought not to be tempted out of the sphere of Christian harmony and try to seek unconsecrated sounds. It is absurd for a millionaire to steal. God Io-vea Harmony. I remark also that correctness ought to be a characteristic of church music While we all ought to take part in this service, with perhaps a few excep tions, we ought at the same time to cultivate ourselves in this sacred art. God loves harmony, and we ought to love it. There is no devotion in a howl or a yelp. In this day, when there are so many opportunities of high culture in this sacred art, I declare that those parents are guilty of neglect who let their sons and daughters grow up knowing nothing , about music In some of the European cathedrals the choir assemble every morning and afternoon of every day the whole year to perfect themselves in this art, and shall we begrudge the half hour we spend Friday nights In the rehearsal of sacred song for the Sabbath? Anothejrcharacterlstic must be spirit and life. Music ought to rush from the audience like the water from a rock clear, bright, sparkling. If all the oth er part of the church service Is dull. do not have the music dull. With so many thrilling things to sing about, away with all drawling and stupidity. There is nothing that makes me so nervous as to sit in a pulpit and look off on an audience with their eyes three-fourths closed and their lips almost shut, mumbling the praises of God. During , one of my journeys I preached to an , audience of 2,000 or 3,000 people, and all the music they made together did not equal one skylark! People do not sleep at a coronation; do not let us sleep when we come to a Saviour's crowning. In. order to a proper discharge of this duty, let us stand up, save as age or weakness Or fatigue excuse us. Seated in an easy pew we cannot do this duty half so well as when upright we throw our whole body into it. Let our song be like an acclamation of victory. You have a right to sing; do not surrender your prerogative. If in the performance of your duty, or the attempt at it, you should lose your place in the musical scale and be one C below when you ought to be one C above, or you should comeln half a bar behind, we will ex cuse you! Still, It is better to do as Paul says, and sing "with the spirit and the understanding also." -. Consrresratlonal Mnalc. Again, 1 remark church music must be congregational. This opportunity must be brought down within the range of the whole audience. ' A song that the worshipers cannot sing is of no more use to them than a sermon in Choctaw. What an easy kind, of church It must be where the minister does all the preaching, and the elders all the praying, and the choir all the singing! There are but very ' few churches where thereare "two hun dred and forty and five singing men and singing women." In some churches it is almost consid ered a disturbance if a man let out his voice to full compass, and the people uet up on tiptoe and look over be tween the spring hats and wonder what that man is making all that noise about. In Syracuse in a Presbyterian church there was one member who came to me when I was the pastor of another church in that city and told me his trouble how that as he per sisted in singing on the Sabbath day a committee, made up of the session and the choir, bad come to ask him if be would not just please to keap still! You have no right to sing. Jonathan Edwards used to set apart whole days for singing. Let us wake up to this duty. Let us sing alone, sing m our families, sing in our schools, sing in our churches. Hea-ren'a National Airs. I want to rouse you to a unanimity in Christian song that has r.erer yet been exhibited. Come, now; clear your throats and get ready for this duty or you will never hear the end of this. 1 never shall forget hearing a French man sing the "Marseillaise" on the Champs Ely sees, Paris, just before the battle of Sedan in 1870. I never saw such enthusiasm before or since. As he sang that national air, oh, how the Frenchmen shouted! Have you ever in an English assemblage heard a band play "God Save the Queen T' If you have, you know something about the enthusiasm otj national air. . Nowc 1 RAIIKIII 1 IITT ' f . - -I liHlVtTA.. i THOSE PIMM, BJRGSffi ' r :.... .: u - '' 1. Some people -merchants have spas modic fits in offering bargains. We believe in consistency and keep Bargains Going all the Time. Now is the time to turn merchandise loose and we are guilty of offering some of tfie BESjT BARGAINS IN SEASONABLE GOODS that it will be your opportunity to get' Ice Water while you wait. i' RANKIN. CHIS boml mm 300 SOUTH ELM ST., GREENSBORO. 8ALESMKM: J. W. Crawford, W. H, Rees, II. B. Donnell, Will R. Rankin, J. T. Rec. strodd ; " , lorn went into tell you that these songs we sing Sab bath by Sabbath are the national airs of the kingdom of heaven, and If you do not learn to sing them here, how do you ever expect to sing the song of Moses and the Lamb? I should not be surprised at all if some of the best anthems of heaven were made up of some of the best songs of earth. May God increase our reverence! for Chris tian psalmody and keep us from dis gracing it by our indifference and fri volity. jWhen Cromwell's army battle, he stood at the head of it one day and gave out the long meter dox ology to the tune of the VOld Hun dredth," and 'that , great host, company by company, regiment by regiment, di sion by division, joined in the dox- 1 ogy: i Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; PraiM him, all creatures here below; Praise him above, ye heavenly hoet; Praia Father, Son and Holy Chort. And while the sang they marched, and while they marched they fought, and while they fought they got the victory. Oh, men and women of Jesus Christ, let us go into all our conflicts singing the praises of God,' and then. Instead of falling back, as we often do, from defeat to defeat, we will be marching on from victory to victory. Gloria In Excelsls" is written over many organs. Would that by our ap preciation of the goodness of God, and the mercy of Christ, and the grandeur of heaven, we could have "Gloria In Excelsls" written over all our souls. 'JGlory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, as! it was In the beginning. Is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amenl" A WONDERFUL CURE OF DIAR RHOEA. A Prominent Virginia Editor Had Almost Giyen Up, but Was Brought Back to Perfect Health by Cham berlains Colic, Cholera and Diar rhoea Remedy Read His Editorial. , From the Times, Hilliville, Va. T em . t m i sunerea wua aiarrnoea ior a long time and thought I was past being cured. I had spent much lime ana money ana sunerea so much misery that I bad almost de cided to give up all hopes of re covery and await the result, but noticing the advertisement of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and also some testimonials stating how some won derful cures had been wrought by this remedy, I decided to try it. After taking a few doses I was en tirely well of that trouble, and I wish to 8 ay further to my readers and fellow-sufferers that I am a hale and, hearty man today and feel as well as I ever did in my life. O. R. Moore. Sold by CE.Hol- ton, Druggist. UNCLE SAM'S HOT BATHS. A Grasshopper Story. A live grasshopper will eat a dead grasshopper. A Missouri farmer mixed paris green and bran together and let a grasshopper eat it He died. Twen ty ate him up. They died. Pour hun dred ate those 20, and they died. Eight thousand ate those 400, and j they died. A hundred and sixty thousand ate those 8,000 and died, and the farmer was troubled no more. j In its flight from the far west the name of the statistician of this story has become separated from his fig ures, but the fact that the Incident oc curred in Missouri is regarded as evi dence of its possibility. New York Tribune. j Robbed and Then Blade to Slna Senor Manuel Garcia, the oldest pro fessor of music In the world; was born 04 years ago In Spain. He left his na tive country during the peninsular war, owing to Wellington's advance on Ba- dajoz. When Gounod, Verdi and Wag ner were still at school, Garcia was Singing on the operatic stage. Many years ago he was on a tour with his father in Mexico, and they were "held up' by masked brigands, who first rob bed them of over 1,000 ounces of gold and then compelled the Garcias to sing to them for nothing. Senor Garcia, by the way, was the inventor of the laryn goscope, j She Turned the Laaffh. She Is from the far southwest and on her first visit to the city, but all at tempts to chaff her have been reactive. I suppose' said her host, with a wink to the others at the table, "the cyclone you had Just before leaving carried away a township or twb and pasted them against the mountains beyond?' 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