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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1899-9-7, Page 3A SERVICE OP SONG. An interesting and Instructive Sermon on Music in Religion.. Rev.. Dr. Talmage Declares That the Best Music Has Been Ren- dered Under Trouble --God Meant All to Sing—The Proper Music for a Church. Washington, Sept. 3,—Dr. Talrnage to -day -discussed a most attractive depart- ment of religious wersbip—the service of song. His ideas will be received with interest by all who love to lift their voices in praise in the Lord's house. The text ie Nebetn!ah vii, 67, "And they had two hundred and forts and five singing men and singing women," The best music has bean rendered under trouble. The first duet that I know any - orthing of was given by Paul and Silas when they sang praisers to Gad and the prisoners heard them. The Scotch Coy- enanters, hounded by the dogs of persecu- tion, sang the psalms of David with more spirit than they have, ever since been rendered. The captives in the teat nad music left in them, and I declare that if they could find, amid all their trials, two hundred and forty and five singing men and singing women then in this day of gospel suni!gihu and free from all pease. nation there ought to be a great multitude of men and women willing to sing tbe Itemises of Ood. ,:M1 our ohurohes need arousal on this subject. Those who can sing must throw their souls into the ex- ercise. and those who cannot sing must learn how. and it shall be heart to heart, voice to voice, hymn to hymn, anthem to anthem, and the tousle shall swell jubilant with thanksgiving and Menton oue with pardon. Mare you ever uoticed the construction of the human throat es indicative of what God ma'am us to do with it? In only an ordinary throat and lungs there are 14 diret•t muscles anti 30 indirect nonseles that can produce a 'very great variety of sounds, ti'bat does that meant, It means that you should sing! Do you suppose that God, who ghees us suoh a musical instrument ae that intends us to keep it shut? £ unposo .some great tyrant amnia get possession of the musi- oai instruments of the world and ehould lock up the organ of Westminster Abbey, and the organ of Lucerne, andthe organ at Haarlem, and the organ at 1''reibure, and all the other great musical immix - emits of the -vorld. You would call such a man as that a monster, ane yet you are more wteked if, with the human Toico, a musical instrument of more wonderful adaptation than all the musi- cal instruments that man ever created, you shut 1t against tbo praise of God. Let those refuse to sing Who never knew our God, But children of the heavenly Ring Should speak their joys abroad. Music eeums to have been born in the soul of the natural world, The omnipo- tent voice with which God commanded the world into being seems to linger yet with its majesty and sweetness, and you bear it in the grainfield. In the swoop of tbo wind amid the mountain fastnesses, in the canary's warble and the thunder shook, in the brook's tinkle and tho ocean's paean. There aro soft oadences in nature and loud notes, some of which we cannot hear at all and others that aro so terrific that we cannot appreclute thorn. The :lodgment Day's Great ]ltaralt. The anirnaloulne bave their rnusia, and the spicula of hay and the globule of water aro as certainly resonant with thu voice of God as the highest heavens in which the armies of the redeemed cele- brate 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 uttor- anoes of nature whioh seem harsh and overwhelming, it is as wben you stand in the midst of a great orchestra, and the sound almost rends your ear because you are too near to catch the blending of the music. eo. my friends, we stand too near the desolating storm and the frightful whirlwind to catch the blending of tho music, but when that music rises to where God Is, and the invisible beings who float above us. then I suppose the harmony is as sweet as it is tremendous. 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 when sometimes a great organist, in executing some great piece, breaks down the instrument upon which be is playing the music. So, when the great march of the judgment day is 'played under the hand of earthquake, 'and storm and conflagration, the world itself will break down with the music that is played on it. The fact is, we are all deaf, or we should understand that the whble universe is but one barmony— the stars of tbo night only the ivory keys of a great instrument on which God's fingers 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 to -day 600 musical journals in China. Two ' thousand years before Christ the Egyp- tians practiced this art. Pythagoras learned it. Lases of Hermione wrote essays on it. Plato and Aristotle intro- duced it into their schools, but I have not much interest in that. My chief in- terest is in the music of the Bible. The Bible, like a great harp with Innumerable strings, swept by the finger's of inspiration, trembles with it. So far back as the fourth chapter of Genesis you find the first organist and harper— Juba". So far beck as the thirty-first chanter of Genesis s ou will find the first choir. All up and down the Bible you find sacred music—at woddings, at inau- gurations, at the treading of the"wine plass. The Hebrew understood how to make musical signs above the musfoal text. When the Tews came from their distant homes to the great festivals ab Jerusalem, they brought harp and timbrel and trumpet and poured along the great Judaean nighwars a river of harmony until in ane around the temple the wealth of a nation's song and gladness had;,acoumulated. In our day we have a division of labor in music, and we ,have one man to make the bymn, 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 to music, clapped it on a cymbal and at the same time sang it. David, the psalm- ' est, was at the same time pont, musical composer, harpist and singer, and the majority of his rhythm goat ribrating through all the ages. Music of Bible Times. There were in Bible times stringed in- 'struments—a harp of three strings played by fret and bow, a barp of ten strings resounding only to the fingers of the per- former. Then there was the 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 tnaroh. There were 4,009 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 o#fioieted on different days. Can you imagine tuo harmony when these white robed Levites, before the symbols of God's presence 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 lluudred and Thirty-sixth Psalm of David? Do you know how lc was done? Lute part of that great choir stood up and chanted, "Oh, give tharii:s unto the Lord, for he is goad!'' Then the other part of the choir, standing in sone other part of the tem - pie, would eons° in with the response, "For his zn,eroy endureth forever," Then the first part would take up the song again and say, "Unto hien who only doeth great wonders." The other Part of the choir would come in with over.. whelttting response, "For his mercy endureth forever," until in the latter part of the song, the music floating back' ward and forward, harmony grappling with harmony, every trumpet suuuding, every bosom heaving, ane part of ibis great wbite robed choir would lift the anthem, "Oh, give thanks unto the God of heaven!" tied the other part of the Levite choir would come in with the response, "For his mercy endureth for- ever." But I am glad to know that all through the ages there has been great attention paid to sacred music. Ambros- ias, Augustine, Gregory the Great, Char- lemagne. gave it their mighty influence, and in our day the best. musical genius is throwing itself on the altars of Gad. Handel and alozart and Bach and Dur - ante and Wolf and scores of other men and women bavo given the best part of their genius to church music. A truth in words is not half so mighty ass truth In song. Luther's sermons have been for- gotten. but the "Judgment Hymn" he coinposod la resounding yet all through Christendom. Appropriate Church Music. I congratulate the world and the ohuroh on the advancemene made in this art—the Edinburgh societies for the im- provement of music, the Swiss singing societies, the Exeter Hall concerts, the triennial musical convocation at Dussel- dorf, Germany, and Bermingham, Eng- land, the controversies of muslo at Munich and Leipsic, the Handel and Haydn and Harmonic and Mozart sooie- ties of this country, tho acuaemios of music in New York, Brooklyn, Boston, Charleston, NOW Orleans, Chicago and every city which bas any enterprise. Now, my friends, how are we to decide what is appropriate, especially for church music? There may bo a great many differences of opinion. In some of the oburohos they prefer a trained choir; in others they prefer the melodeon, the harp, the cornet, tho organ; in other places they think these things are the invention of the devil. Some -would have a musical instrument played so loud you cannot stand it, and others would have it played so soft you cannot hear it. Some think a musical instrument ought to bo played only in the interstices of worship, and then with indescribable 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 opinion iu regard to music, it seems to nie that the general spirit of the word of God indicates what ought to be the great characteristics of ohuroh music. ' And I remark, in the first place, a prominent characteristic ou:rht to be adaptiveness to devotion. Music that may be appropriate for 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 hindrance to the wor- ship. From such performances we go away saying: "What splendid execution! Did you ever hear such a soprano? Which of these 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 presence of God while they were singing thatefirst hymn! I never had such raptur- ous views of Jesus Christ as my Saviour as when they were singing that last doxology." Biagio as a Help to Devotion. My friends, there is an everlasting distinction between music as an art and music as a help to devotion. Though a Sohumann*oomposeu it. though a Mozart played it, though a Sontag sang it, away with it if it does not make the heart bet- ter and honor Christ. Why should we rob the programmes of worldly gayety whon we have so many appropriate songs and tures composed in our own day, as well as that magnificent inheritance of church psalmody which,has oorne down fragrant with the devotions of other gen- erations -tunes no more worn out than they were wben our great-grandfathers climbed up on thein from the church pew to glory? Dear old souls, how they used to sing! When they were cheerful, our grandfathers and grandtnotnere used to sing "Colchester." When they were meditative, then the boarded meeting house rang with "South Street" and "St. Edmund's." Were they struck through with great tenderness,' they sang "Woodstock." Were they wrapped in visions of the glory of the ohuroh, they sang "Zion." Were they overborne with the love,and glory of Christ, they sang "Ariel." And In those days there wens pertain tunes married to certain hymns, and they bave lived in peace a great while, these two old people, and we have no right to divorce them. "What God bath joined togetber let no man put asunder." Born as we have been. amid this great wealth of church music, aug- mented by the compositions of artists in aur 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. 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 exceptions, 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 bowl or a yelp. In this day, when there are so many opport tunities 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 assembles every morn- ing and every 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? :so Rail Baste Wanted. Another ebaracteristie must be spirit and life. Music ought to rush from the audience like the water from a rock— clear, bright, sparkling. If all the other pare of the church service is dull, do net bare the music( dud, 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 ou an audi- ence with their eyes three-fourths closed, and their lips almost shut, mumbling the praises of God. ,itur,ng one of zny journeys. preached to an audience of iI,0Q0 or 9,000 people, and all the music they made together did not equal one skylark! People do not sleep at a corona- tion; 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 excuses us. Seated in an easy pow we cannot do this duty half so well as when upright we throw aur whole body into it. Let our song be like an arelanuttion of victory. You have a right to sing—do not surrender your prerogative. 11 in the performance of your duty, or the attempt at it, you should lose your place in the musical seals and be one 0 below wben you ought to be one C above, or you should come in half a bar behind. we will ex- cuse you! Still, it is better to do as Paul says and sing "with ,, he apirit and the understanding also." Again, I remark church music must be congregational. This opportunity must be brought down within the range of the whole audience. A song that the worshippers cannct sing is of no more use to them than a sermon in Choctaw. What an easy kind of churoh it must be where the minister does all the preaohing and tho elders all the praying and the choir all the singing! There are but very few churches where there are "two hun- dred and forty and five singing men and singing women." In some churches it is almost considered a disturbance it a man let out his volae to full compass, and the people get up on tiptoe and look over between the spring hats and wonder what that man is making all that noise about. In Syracuse in a Presbyterian ohuroh there was one member tubo came to mo when 1 was the pastor of another ohuroh in that city and told me his trouble, how that as he persisted in singe lug on the Sabbath day a committee, made up of the session of the choir, had come to ask hien If he would not just please to keep still! You have a right to sing. Jonathan Edwards used to set apart whole nays for singing. Let us wake up to this duty. Let us sing alone, sing in our families, sing in our schools, sing in our churches. National Airs of heaven. I `vent to rouse you to a unanimity in Christian song that has never yet been exhibited. Coyne, now; clear your throaty and got ready for this duty, or you will never hear the end of this. I never shall forget hearing a Frenchman sing the "Marseillaise" on the Champs Elysees, Paris, just before the battle of Sedan in 1870. 1 never saw such enthusiasts 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?" If you have, you know something about the enthusiasm of a national air. Now, I tell you that these songs we sing Sabbath by Sabbath are the national airs of the kingdom of heaven, and if you do not learn to sing them here how do you expect to sing the song of Moses and the Lamb? I should not be surprised at all if some offthe best anthems of hea- ven were made up of some of the best songs of earth. May God increase our reverence for Christian psalmody and keep us from disgracing it by our in- difference and frivolity. When Cromwell's army went into bat- tle, he stood at the head of it one day and gave out the long meter doxology to the tune of the "Old Hundredth,•' and that great host. company by company, regiment by regiment, division by divi- sion, joined in the doxology: Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; Praise him, all creatures here below; Praise him above, ye heavenly host; Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost. And while they sang they marched, and while they marched they fought, and while they fought they got 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 vic- tory. "Gloria in. Excelsis" is written over many organs. Would that by our appre- ciation of the goodness of God. and the mercy of Christ, and the grandeur of heaven, we could bavo "Gloria In Ex- eelsis" written over all our souls, "Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. as it was in the begin- ning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen!" Cause of Leg Weakness. Now that the young roosters are run- ning at large they will grow rapidly if properly fed, but should the weather be- come damp they may suddenly show weakness in the legs. If they eat and seem well otherwise they will soon come in proper condition, as the weakness is caused by the birds growing in height rather than in breadth, the lege Reeming to grow longer. Such birds show the effects more on a sudden change of the weather than at any other time, as if rheumatic. Keep them in a dry place, feed plenty of bonemeai, and they will not only easily get over it, but will eventually be the largest ones in the !look, --Yarm and Fireside CASSINI IS PLEASED. Russian Anzbacsador at Washington oa the Peace Congress—Thinkit Confer- ence Bas Done Spine Good. Although the prediction was freely made before the assembling of the inter- national conference at The Hague that no practial results would be accomplish- ed, it is now apparent that several im- portant propositions looking to the peace- ful settlement of international differences and to the lessening of the bardships of war will be adopted. Count Cassini, the Russian ambassador at Washington has insisted from tbe first that the outcome of the conference would be of the most satisfactory character, and before his recent departure for Europe consented to -Rake this stateinent con- cerning the conference and the purpose of the Czar in issuing his famous invita- tion which resulted in its occurrence: "While perhaps the conference at The Hague will not accomplish all that the Emperor of Russia desired when he issued his invitation to the powere to participate, I am confident that results will be accomplished wnioh will be bene- ficial to the world at large. "I have seen it stated in newspapers, corning from, persons of more or less im- portance and prominence. that in making his appeal to the various nations to participate in the conference His Majesty the zar was actuated by a desire so Prevent impending war and to postpone hostilities until Russia was in a position, finally and forcibly, to defend herself, It has aisa been asserted that the Russian Government desired to avert war until the great Trans-Siberian Railroad was com- plete, Such statements are absolutely false; The idea of holding the conference suggested itself to the Emperor before he ascended the throne, and is in accord - ;Mee with the views entertained by his illustrious father. The Czar sbonld be given the entire credit of putting the subject in practical shape. It Is emphat- scally not the notion of others put for. ward under the guise of the Emperor. I have hid the honor of a number of audi- ences with His Majesty, and be has always surprised me by his broad grasp of all important matters and bis aston- ishing fund of general information. As his subject, I may be excused far my evi- dent partiality, but the truth of what I say will be attested by those who have talked with him at other times. In his astuteness I may liken the Czar to his father. Seven years ago China was of little importance to the world. When appointed to the post at Peking at that time I was informed by the late Czar Alexander that he bad sent me to a most important station; that China would be - COUNT CASSINI. come the aborbing question of the future. And certainly recent events bave amply justified his conclusions, "To return to The Hague conference. Believing that it would be to the inter- ests of the governments of Europe and the world as well to limit armaments, to soften the hardships of hostilities, to agree upon a plan for the peaceful settle- ment of disputes, etc., the Emperor drew up his fatuous invitation to the world, of which the conference Is the first fruit. The Czar knows the great expense in- separably linked with the race between the governments of Europe to outstrip one another in the matter of providing more effective armaments for their troops. Thus in one country an invention of a destructive rifle Is made to -day and that state is immediately equipped with this new weapon. To -morrow another country becomes the possessor of even a more effective gun and her army is at once supplied with the new arm. "To prevent itself from being at a distinct disadvantage in case of war, the first government is compelled to discard the weapon but barely supplied and to buy the better arm of the rival. The greater the expendture the more severe, of course, the burden upon the people and the inoffensive husbandman; and it was in the interest of these humble toil- ers, as well as in that of their frequently hard -pushed governments, that the Czar was induced to suggest a conference agreeing upon a limitation of suoh arma- ments. I have seen the word disarma- ment frequently used in connection with the Czar's proposition, but that is an error. What the Czar desires is to apply the brake to the train of events which is parrying the nations of Europe to destruo- tion or bankruptcy in anticipation of war." Polygamy in Austrian Arzny. Austria's pension bureau has been obliged to recognize polygamy in the army. Since the occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina many Mohammedans have become soldiers, and each of these when he dies may leave several widows. A recent order settles the pension ques- tion thus: "In case a soldier leaves morn than one legal widow the pension assign- ed to the widow shall be divided equally among all his widows who are entitled to be pensioned." Queer Collection 'of Buttons. The wife of an English clergyman has made a colleotion of all the buttons placed in the offertory bags during the last two or three years and has fastened them to cardboard in various cunning shapes of animals, birds and flowers. As a bazaar is shortly to take place in con- nection with the church work, she has bad those button pictures photographed and copies will be on sale at the fair. Labor Creates the Value. A poand of raw cotton Is worth five cents, when made into, fabrics that pound is worth 25 cents to one dollar. Massa- chusetts has 8,000,000 spindles, and spins 1,259.000 bales of southern cotton to sell back to the south. The south hews the wood and draws the water; it does the drudgery of producing the raw material for the north to manufacture and get rich upon; COTTAGE 'WINDOWS. HINTS ABOUT WINDOW SEATS AND CURTAINS FOR COUNTRY HOUSES. Sommer Draperies ee CbInte out or Fashion.—A Useful and Cozy Corner. A Bay Window Arrangement.. Scheme For a Bedroom. Corner window seats are a great im- provement in any room to which they can be adapted. The .Art Amateur, in talk ahont a summer cottage, its win- dows and window seats, says: usually in country dwelings there ie no space between the window frawec CORNRit SEAT FOR. A tCt.'.Aitit Wl\pOW, and the side walls. That disposition saves trouble to the builder, but it looks very ugly unless treated as here suggested in our picture of a "corner window sear." The form of the seat makes the 'window a central feature and restores to it its proper importance, The question what to do with our windows its summer is one that agi- tates the housekeeper both in the city and in the country. The heavy cur- tains used in winter are obviously out of the question, and even elaborate lace curtains do not acerrd with the sim- plicity that ought to reign. Still, many people are distressed by absolute bare- ness. For these there are materials that may be used. Those already suggested are suitable for the simplest apartment. Still lighter in appearance is the now fashionable Singapore net, a very open mesh, -usually in shades of dull red and ecru. Chintzes are out of fashion, but In- dian cotton prints, which have much the same look, though without the glaze, may be obtained in great vari- ety. For an expensively fitted room the modern imitations of the old Spanish and Italian colored laces are very suit- able. They can be had as yet tbrongh a few of the largest importing houses only and are quito costly. The colored figures are usually in silk. Still, much the same effect may be obtained by carefully staining with appropriate tints the figures of an ordinary lace window curtain. Even without a curtain the light may bo partially excluded and the look of bareness avoided by the judi- cious use of a Little stained I;lass, or in- stead of it Henke pierced brass, which comes in thin sheets and can be cut and bent to any shape, or Japanese t::enails of stiff, tough paper, very pret- ty in design. Our "bay window" shows what use may be made of a hanging pot of mask or other trailing plant and of gayly colored cushions and a white foxskin rug. In the furnishings of windows and window seats the hot colors of some stuffs from tropical coun- tries must be used in .moderation. In the countries from whence they come these are either paled down by the ex- cessively brilliant sunshine or tempered by the almost complete darkness of the rooms. In the diftnsed light of our apartments they are apt to look gaudy, especially when of cheap material. But Indian reds and yellows can lee used to advantage with a sufficient body of cooler colors—indigo, white, nile green, and the like. The Art Amateur also advises that a bedroom in the summer cottage which it describes may be hung with paper of a plain tint, or at a little greater ex- pense with grass cloth, green or (lull blue. The bedspread is of dotted swiss A BAT WINDOW WITH SEAT. over pale green or blue silesia to corre- spond with the wall covering. The window curtains also are of dotted swiss, which forms a pretty pattern with diamond shaped window panes showing through it. The furniture is mainly of bent rattan, including the gracefully shaped dressing table with its oval mirror frame. The bed is of brass and enameled iron and the desk of oak. Delectable Rice Pudding. Rice pudriing in its simplest form is delicious. but it is often spoiled by the addition of eggs and raisins. Properly made it should contain only rice, milk, salt, sugar and nutmeg in the propor- tion of one-quarter of a cupful of rice to two quarts of milk, the remaining ingredients being added to suit indi- vidual taste. It should be baked in a slow oven for fully two hours, and as often as a yellow crust forms over the top it should be stirred under. So made and served icy cold it is delectable, se- ' , aiding to Table Talk, WEA'K ASD NF.QPOUS, The Condition of a Young Lady of Welland. $abject to I''reunion t Headaches. Was ?.10 and Emaciated and Grow Bo 111 see Could Rarely Want. Prom the Tribune, Welland, Ont. 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