THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER i, 1807. SACRED MUSIC, Ita Importance Set Forth by Rev Dr. Talmago. It Soothes the Troubled Soul, Arouses the Inert to Action the Workers Congregational Sing- lng Should be Encouraged. and Inspires In his latest the popular Washington divine pointed out some of the blessings that produced by congregational singing, and urged all Christians to indulge in it His text | was ll. Chronicles, 5: 13: “It came | even to pass as the trumpeters and | singers were as one, to make one | sound to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord.” The temple was done. It was the very chorus of all magnificence and pomp. Splendor crowned against splendor. It was the diamond neck- lace of the earth. From the huge pil- lars crowned with leaves and flowers and rows of pomegranate wrought out | in burnished metal, down even to the tongs and -snuffers made out of pure gold, everything was as complete as the God-directed architect could make it. It seemed as if a vision from Heav- en had alighted on the mountains. The day for dedication came. Tradition says there were in and around about the temple on that day 200,000 silver trumpets, 40,000 harps, 40,000 timbrels, and 200,000 singers; so that all sermon are modern demonstrations at Dusseldorf ton seem nothing As this great the precious stones of the must have seemed like the River o compared 1 sound surged up amid temple, it { Life dashing agains ie amethyst of Heav : if to the wall of and God, as 1 well show t the childrer to the midst glory ating pr or Bos- | To | with that | | | | will keep on | about as we have been amid this great wealth of church music, augmented by the compositions of artists in our day, we ought not to be tempted out of sphere of Christian harmony, and try to seek unconsecrated sounds, It is absurd for a millionaire to Many of you are illustrations of what a sacred song ean do the stent! Through it you were brought into the kingdom of Jesus Christ, You stood out against the warning and the argument of the pulpit, but when, in the sweet words nf Charles Wesley or John Newton or Toplady, the love of Jesus was sung to your soul, then you surrendered, as an armed castle that could not be taken by & host, lifts its window to listen to a harp's trill There was a Scotch soldier dying in New Orleans, and a Scotch minister came in to give him the consolations of the gospel. The man turned over on his pillow and said, "Don’t talk to me about religion.” Then the minister began to sing a familiar hymn that was composed by David Dickenson, be- ginning with the words: Oh, mother dear, Jerusalem, When shall I come to thee! He sang it to the tune of Dundee, and everybody in Seotland knows that; and as he began to sing, the dying soldier turned over on his pillow and said to the minister: “Where did you learn that?” “Why,” replied the minister, “my mother taught me that.” *‘So did mine,” said the dying soldier; and the very foundation of his heart was up- turned, and then and there he himself to yielded an irre- have Christ. Oh, it has Luther's sermons but Hymn sings on through the ages, ar sistible power! been forgotten, his Judgment singing until the bls the archangel's trumpet shall that very day which the celebrates I would to would take these songs of messages from Heaven; for ju tain as the birds brought by the br harmonies, God- ui with nouth and take it, I have als they come in I draw portanes sacred that God comman: He tells us to adn psaims and hy onish one and mns and through David He cries out to rod, all oms of ve kinge the earth” are hunar other pas sages I might name, ing at it is 's duty to sing as it is y pray. Indeed, I think there are md : in the Bible to r COmmandas sing than t are God not we human voice, but for nstroments of He asks for the eymba! and the harp and the trum pe And | that in the days of the church the harp, the lute, the trumpet and all the instruments of music that have given their chief aid to the theater anid brought their masters and laid down feet of and then in the church's triumph on from ring “Praise ye the Praise Him with your voice , Praise Him with stric ged instruments and with organs music suppose last bacchanal will be by at the Christ sounded her way suffe into glory Lord! , I draw another argument for the im- portance of this exercise from the im pressiveness of the exercise. You know something of what secular music has | achieved You know it has made its! impression upon governments upon laws, upon literature, upon whole gen- erations. One inspiring national air is worth 30,000 men as a standing army There comes a time in the battle when wne bugle is worth a thousand mus kets. In the earlier part of our civil war the government proposed to econ. omize in bands of music, and many of |, them were sent home; but the generals in the army sent word to Washington: ‘You are making a very great mistake. We are falling back and falling back. We have not enough music.” 1 have to t 4d] you that no nation or church ean afford to severely economize in music Why should we rob the programmes | of worldly gaiety when we have so many appropriate songs and tunes eom- 1 in our own day, as well as that magnificent inheritance of church Imody which has come down fra grant with the devotions of other gen. erations—tunes no more worn out than when our great-grandfathers climbed up on them from the church pew to glory? Dear old souls, how they used to sing! 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 Save no right to divorce them. Born LL ————— ST —— a no voice todischarge thisdatly the Church of sing as it have a hundred kingdom of Christ How was “Lat! believe that if could rise up and sing, where we souls brought into the there would be a thousand it in olden time? Cajetan said: er conquered us by his songs : ¥ But I must now speak of some of the | the advance music, and the first impressed far RiWwavs Lo be the way of : obstacles in ment of this sacres is that it has service of been into the Satan. lam from be t music ought ieving tha positively religions, Refined art has opened places where music has secularized, drawing and lawfully so room, the concert, by duction of harmless amusement and the improvement of talent, come very forces in the of our civilization has to pray at St. Paul's dom of nature we have the glad fifing of the wind as well as the long meter psalm of the thunder. But, while all this is so, every observer has noticed that his art, whieh God intended for the improvement of the ear, and the voice, and the head, and the heart, has often been impressed into the serviee of error. Tartinl, the musical ecom- poser, dreamed one night that Satan snatched from his hand an instrument and played vpon it something very sweet—-a dream that has often been fulfilled in our day, the voice and the instruments that ought to have been devoted to Christ, captured from the church and applied to the purposes of sin Another obstacle has been an inordi- nate fear of eriticiam. The vast ma jority of people singing in church never want anybody else to hear them sing. Everybody Is waiting for some body else io do hisduty., If we all sang then the inaccuracies that are evident when only a few sing would be drowned out. God asks you to do as well as you can, and then if you get the wrong piteh or keep wrong time he will forgive any deficiency of the ear and imperfection of the voloes, Angels will not laongh if you should lose your place in the musio seals or come in at the close a bar behind There are three schools of singing, 1 am told—the German school, the Itali- an school and the French school of singing. Now, I would like to add a fourth selvwol, and that is the school of Christ. Tim voloe of a contrite, broken heart, »'(livugh it may not be able to stand ht Lan eriticlam, males better musie to #od’s ear than the most artis. been | The | the | gratification of pure taste and the pro | have be. | advancement Music has as much | right to Inagh in Surrey Gardens as it | In the king- | he wo the heart Is the beasts, on tie ‘performance when wanting. God calls on the cattle, the dragons, to praise Him, and we ought not to behind the cattle and the dragons. Another obstacle in the ment of this art has been the erroneous notion that this of the could be conducted by delegation. Churches have said, 0, what time we shall have on advances part the singing, and we will to do.” And you know as that there are a great churches the people sre pot expected to sing The whole work is done by delegation well as | of four or six or ten persons and the | In such a church | audience are silent, in Syracuse an old elder persisted in singing, and so the choir appointed a committee to go and ask the elder if he would not stop. You know that in many churches the choir are expected to do the singing, and the great mass of the people are expected to be silent, and if you utter your voice you are | interfering. My Christian friends, have wea right to delegate to others the discharge of us? | this duty which God demands of Suppose that four wood thrushes pro- | pose to do all the singing some bright | | ters of an inch long, the thorax mottled day, when the woods are ringing with bird decided wood thrushes shall do all the aging of the forest. Let all other voices koep How beautifully the four war But how aorest still voices, It is silent ble! It is really fine mu : M ong w i : Why, Chri would come He looked the olives, ] fe would est and on An audi hree-fourths lips almost shut, praises | - 10 ing the ring recent absence I preached to a large audience, and all the made together did not People do not sleep at a « tion Do not come to a Saviour s crowning to a proper us stand up, save as age of God my musie they equal one sky lark. ona let us sleep when In order discharge of this daty let Or weakness seated in an duty half throw or fatigue excuses us easy pew we cannot do this so well as upright, we our whole wavy into it Let our song You Do not surrender be like an acclamation of victory have a right to sing your prerogative We upon this subject want to rouse all our families ily of our congregation to be a singing school we had more singing in the household, and then our little ones would be pre- | great congregation on | pared for the Sabbath day, their voices uniting with our voices in After a shower side with voices rippling and silvery, pouring into one river, and then roll | So | ing in united strength to the sea. ! would have all the familes in our church send forth the voice of prayer | and praise, pouring it into the great tide of public worship that rolls on and on to empty into the great, wide heart of God. Never can we have our church sing as it ought until our families sing as they ought There will this subject in all be a great revolution on our churches. God by His Spirit old hymns and tunes been more than down the not come np have will rouse that fathers, The silent pews in the church will break forth into music, and when the conductor takes his place on the Sabbath day there will be a great host of voices rushing into the har mony. My Christian friends, If we have no taste for this service on earth, what will we do in Heaven, whera they all sing, and sing forever? 1 would that our singing to-day might be like the Saturday sight rehoarsal for the Sabbath morn. log in the skies, and we might begin now, by the strength and the help of God to discharge a duty which none of us has fully performed. And how what more appropriate thing ean I do than to give ont the Doxology of the heavy ens: “Unto Him who bath loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood to Him be glory forever™ service | an easy | The minister will | do the preaching, and the choir will do | have nothing | multitude of | all through this land where | | dropped that four | We want each fam- | Childish petulance, obduracy, | and intractability would be soothed if | ; | Then, seeing his opportunity, he dashed the praises of the Lord. | there are scores of | streams that come down the mountain | | this time. The gray spider succeeded in and | half | awake since the time of our grand: | SPIDERS IN BATTLE. HEY CONDUCT THEMSELVES WITH ALMOST HUMAN INTELLIGENCE. A Fight to the Finish Tiger Spider and a Pale From the Gray Hill Tribe The All “Fut to Sleep,” Though the Black Won Between a Black Bout by Rounds In the quiet laboratory of a Ninth street chemist the other day there was enacted a little tragedy which afforded a demonstrated lesson in the etiquette of duelism as it is conducted among the spiders, Few realize the intelligence these inconspicuous little creatures of ten display, and in fact few people besides scientists go to the trouble of spending an hour or so watching them, The doctor espied a spider in the cor- ner of the laboratory window sill. He procured a wide mouthed jar, and with a stick endeavored to push the spider into it. The insect turned savagely on it and darted quickly up the stick to- ward his hand, Stick and spider were immediately on to the sill, from which in another instant the crea ture was scooped into the jar, He lay sullen and bunched up at the bottom. His body was fully three-quar- abdomen well black the round and green marked with lack an ollow ; the purey, defined BOON as 1 of his pick] 3 spiders } OF [si & OPO ig of f AT ir fullest extent. ders : He seemed actually to leap at the big spider jut quick as the hill spider was the tiger #] ider was « qually A mace a i closed, lay on the glass, and the tiger spider, holding his enemy in a bearlike was burying bis mandibles in the er's throat, The killing bad not ever, without receipt of fides One yellow and black with the thre were two drops of pursy abdomen of the tiger spider, which where the gray spider had planted his jaws in the rush, Meanwhile, too, the second gray spi der had not been idle, but was circling round and about the struggling pair. oth- done, how drab ones, and showed in, only to be faced by the burly fight. er, who, to meet the new attack unen- cumbered, threw the body of the dead combatant from him with a gesture that was almost human The clinch did not follow so quickly getting in and away, clipping off an- other yellow and black leg as he did #o, but in the second rush he was caught, and the tiger spider's jawo were locked in his throat Se ended the fight Ihe tiger spider held on to his second rps #0 long and quietly that I thought him dead also, until I stirred him with my pen, when ho staggered furiously against it, opened his jaws and rolled over, a corpse, —Uincinnati Commercial Tribune The New Woolens, The winter's woolens are handsome and varied, Iridescent effects, rich heather mixtures and boucle effects are numerous, having, for example, a medi. um or dark woolen ground variegated by contrasting threads of silk, or the foundation is a blue or deep red, for ine #tance, with a very shaggry raised de- sign of glossy black wool on the sur. face. 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