PR. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
COM
ord and Discord.
“Who laid the
the morning ste
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vg
when
Job 38, 6-7.
orner-stone thereof,
sang together,”
Lave all seen the ceremony at the
layvipg of the corner-stone of church,
asvlum or Masonic temple. Into the
hollow ef the stone were placed scrolls
if history and important documents, to
be suggestive if, one or two hundred
vears after, the building should be de-
stroved by fire or torn down. We re-
member the silver trowel or iron ham-
mer that smote the square piece of
granite into sanctity. We remember
some venerable man who presided,
wielding the trowel or hammer. We
remember also the music as the choir
stood on the scattered stones and tim-
ber of the building about to be construc-
ted, The leaves of the note-books flut-
tered in the wind, and were turned over
with a great rustling, and we remem-
ber w the bass, baritone, tenor, con-
tralto and soprano voices commingled.
[bey had for many days been rehears-
I he special programme, that it
be worthy of the corner-stone
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ny text the poet of Uz calls us to
der ceremony-—the laying of the
ation of this great temple of a
world. The corner-stone was a block
of light and the trowel was of celastial
rystal. All about and on the embank-
ments of cloud stood the
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ANGELIC CHORISTERS
ng their librettos of overture,
while the
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atter
ceremony went gn,
architect, by stroke of
of light, dedi-
cathedral of a world,
SLroke
eat
#1
and
er-stone thereof; w
ng stars sang together.”
fact is that the whole
plete cadence,
a
be Kok
an unbi
portfolio,
sh nmensity had
wut, and written on it were the
» smaller of them minims, the
tained notes, The
rs marked the staceato passages,
} heavens a gam h all
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ntonatons and n
music
tiem sus
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wdulati
he worlds a mus
of 1 1
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tremblin
iver, the tl
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eé way God made all
A PERF!
it one day a harp-
he great orchestra.
ounded out of tune,
ord, barsh and ter
the glorious antiphone. It wassin that
made the dissonance, and that 51
liscord has been soundi
enturies, All the w ) t
ind philantifropists and reforme
11 ages is to stop that discord and
things baek into th
ny which was heard
corner-stone wher
rifle
Fie
g together,
[I am divinel
iain that sin
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armony, That
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TUNE
to a musician's ear is the
p of clarionot and bassoon
The worl
weak lung ar
general
IINGS OUT O01
3 5 plain as
111
ek
yn orchestral rendering.
th out of tune:
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sphere in coll
WoCia
ision, disorder
1 noonday light in quarrel,
atic limb and damp weather i
neuralgias and pneum
onsumptions
£ Pp upon
Where you find one
and Keen evesight and alert ear
7 respiration and regular pul
supple limb and prime diges
fited a hu
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steady Nerves, vou
to be very careful
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The hourman in-
Y i ore ali i
npatiol y temper
I filial
ough
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:
1 1 3
gh Lhe aivors
wi ke 2 a father! 11 ti}
ak aboul a father’s i 1
irrogate’s court, ol
Ig of
the f wife
through
the criminal courts, but thousands of
families with June outside and January
vil Society out of tune : labor and
their hands an each
Spirit of castd keeping t
lown in the social scale in a struggle
beat
ssa Vimy l i vs i
husband-poisoning
isin,
apital,
throat. hose
ip in anxiety lest they have to come
lown. No wonder the old piano-forte
if society is all ont of tune, wien hy-
louble dealing and sycophancy
barlatanism and revenge, have for six
the keys and stamping the pedals,
iw rmonies,
NATIONS IN DISCORD
thout realizing it; so wrong is the
fecling of nation for nation, that sym.
bols chosen are fierce and destructive,
In this country, where our skies are full
of robins and doves and morning larks,
we have our national symbol, the flerce
and filthy eagle, as immoral a bird “as
an be found in all the ornithological
atalogues, In Great Britalny where
hey have lambs and: fallow deer,
4 heir symbol is the merciless lion. In
Russia, where from between her frozen
North and blooming South all kindly
beasts dwell, these chose the growling
vear; and in the world’s heraldry a
favorite figure is the dragon, which is a
winged serpent, ferocious and dreadful,
And so fond is the world of contention,
that we climb out through the heavens
and baptize one of the other planets
with the spirit of battle and call it
Mars, after the god of war, and we
give to the eighth sign of the zodiac
‘he name of the scorpion, a creaturs
which is chiefly celebrated for its dead-
ly sting. But, after all, these symbols
are expressive of the way nation feels
toward nation, Discord wide as the
continent and bridging the seas,
I suppose you have noticed how
warmly Ir ‘eve dry-goods stores are
‘
with other dry-goods stores, and how
highly grocerymen think of the sugars
of the grocerymen on the same block.
And in what an eulogistic way allopa-
thie and homeopathic doctors speak of
each other, and how ministers will
sometimes put ministers on that beau-
tiful cooking instrument which the
English call a spit, an iron roller with
spikes on it, and turned by a crank be-
fore a hot fire; and then if the minister
being roasted cries out against it, the
men who are turning him say: ‘Hush,
brother, we are turning this spit for
the glory of God and the good ot your
soul, and you must be quiet, while we
close the service with:
“ ‘Riessed be the tie that binds
Our hearts in Christian love
The earth is diametered and circume
ferenced with discord, and the music
that was rendered at the laying of the
world’s corner-stone, when the morning
stars sang together, is not heard now;
and though here and there, from this
and that part of society, and from this
and that part of the earth, there comes
a thrilling solo of love, of a warble of
worship, or a sweet duet of patience,
they are drowned out by a
DISCORD THAT SHAKES THE EARTH,
whole
the
Paul “The creation
groaneth,’’ and while nightingale,
and the woodlark, and the canary, and
lover sometimes &
that their notes have been written
in musical notation, and it is found that
the cuckoo sings in the key of
that the cormorant a basso in tl
Says.
Sing 80
1 f
ous
is 10
winged choir, yet sportsmen’s gun and
blast often
bleeding or dead in
Paul right, for
a1tfiimnal 1 > bia
autumbnal leave Lh
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uffied and
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n the sky.
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a dream Is
melody des
discords asc
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a grasing
ey could not maki
pandemonium as that which rages is
sinful soul n God | ep
8, passions and emotion
discord, lifelong discord, madde
istens to tl
The world pays more for discord th
High prices
hue
CONsonalce,
Hiusic,
gave two hundred and twenty-five
the Swedish songstress
New York, and another six-hundred
hundred and
Providence,
joston, and another six
fifty dollars to hear her in
prices have been pald for
far more has been
The Crimean war
cost one billion seven hundred million
and our American civil war
the war debts of professed Christian na-
tions are about fifteen billion dollars,
THe world pays for this red ticket,
which admits it to the saturnalia of
destroyed cities and ploughed graves
and croshed hearts,
money Satan asks, Discord! Discord!
TilE CHORD RESTORED,
But I have to tell you that the song
that the morhing stars sang togeth-
er, at the laying of the world’s éor-
per-stone, is to resound again, Mo-
zart’s greatest overture was composed
one night when he was several times
overpowered with sleep, and artists say
they can tell the places in the music
where he was, falling asleep, and the
places where he awakened, So the
overture of the morning stars, spoken
of in my text, has been asleep, but it
will awaken and be more grandly ren-
dered by the evening stars of the world’s
existence than by the morning stars, and
the vespers will be sweeler than the
matings, The work of all good men and
women and of all good churches and al!
reform associations is to bring the race
back to the original harmony, ‘The re.
belli heart t6. be attuned, social life
[ to be. attuned. commercial ethics to
be attuned, internationality to be at
tuned, hemispheres to be attuned.
BY WHAT FORCE—IN WHAT WAY?
In olden time the choristers had a
tuning fork with two promgs, and they
would strike it on the back of pew or
music rack, and put it the ear, and then
start the tune, and all the other voices
would join. In modern orchestra the
leader has a complete instrument, right-
ly attuned and he sounds that, and all
the other performers turn the keys of
their instruments to make them corres-
pond, and sound the bow over the string
and listen, and sound out over again,
until all the keys are screwed to concert
pitch, and the discords melt into one
great symphony, and the curtain hoists,
and the baton taps,and audiences are rap-
tured with Schumann’s “‘Paradise and
the Peri,” or Rossini’s ‘‘Stabat Mater,”
or Bach's “Magnificat” in I,
Now. our world ean never be attuned
by an imperfect instrument. Even a
Cremona would not Heaven has
ordained
THE ONLY INSTRUMENT,
t is made of the wood of the cross,
he voices that accompany it are im-
cantatrices of the first
do.
and j
and t
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we had
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lost better
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in harmony ith the
Oh,
us, to
Christ,
attune
Spirit to
I with
1. to
Wil no
(
haminers,
mighty stroke
troke, beating a
hat the world |
chorus, yard
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trowel
14 toward
Make it mor
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tv. Sing families
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facuities
in Youu
mr places of business,
opel spirit use these
rehearsing for the skies,
14 HAVE A NEW
should not
. as sometimes on earth a tune
of
tune with the
of the songs of
we are
TO SONG,
wonder if
mans
variat
the redeemed may have
them the of
earth, and how thrilling, as coming
through the great anthem of the saved,
by barpers with thei
hayps, and trumpeters with their
trampets, if we should hear some of
the strains of Antioch, and Mount Pis-
Lenox, and
St. Martin's and Fountain, and Ariel,
How they would
bring to mind the praving eireles, and
is fashioned out tunes, or it
One HOTS,
80 some
songs
on earth we mingled! I have no idea
are to bid farewell to all of these grand
old Gospel hymns, which melted and
Now, my friends, if sin is discord, and
righteousness is harmony, let us get out
of the'one and enter the other. After
our dreadful civil war was over, and in
the summer of 1809, a great
NATIONAL PEACE JUBILEE
was held in Boston, and as an elder of
this church had been honored by the
selection of some of his music, to be
rendered on t at occasion, I accompa-
nied him to the jubilee. Forty thou-
sand people sat and stood in the great
Coliseum erected for that purpose,
Thousands of wind and stringed instru-
ments, Twelve thousand trained voices,
The masterpieces of all ages rendered,
hour after hour, and day after dav
¥
Handel's ‘Judas Maccabacus,’’ Sphor's
“Last Judgment,” Beethoven's “Mount
of Olives,” Haydn's “Creation,” Men-
delssohn’s “Elijah,” Meyerbeer’s ‘‘Cor-
onation March,” rolling on and up In
serges that billowed against the heavens,
The mighty cadence within were ac-
companied on the outside by the ring-
ing of the bells of the city and cannon
on the commons, discharged by elec-
tricity, in exact time with the musie,
thundering their awful bars of harmony
that astounded all nations. Sometimes
I BOWED MY HEAD AND WEPT,
Sometimes I stood up in the enchant-
ment, and sometimes the effect was so
overpowering I felt I could not endure
it. When all the were in fall
chorus, and all the batons in full wave,
and all the orchestra in full triumph,
and a hundred anvils under mighty
hammers were in full clang, and all the
| towers of the city rolled in their majes-
swettness, and the whole building
YOICES
| tic
| quaked with the boom of thirty cannon,
| Parepa Rosa, with a voice that will
| nevel be equalled on earth until
the archangelic voice proclaims that
time shall be no longer, above all
other sounds in her rendering of our
| national air, the Star Spangled Banner.
It was too much for a mortal, and quite
enough for an immortal, to hear, and
while fainted. one womanly
released under
be with Cron,
Lord,
whol
again
Tose
SOI spirit,
its WET ry]
Is powel i i
| the
lands of
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THINK FOR YOURSELFW
How Men ( Ae
cess in Their Chosen Calling
Young an hieve Sauce
lid not
use his bands?
shops are alway i
ypplicants for apprenticeship.
nths of the applicants f
of anvthing bes
£4
CH helt
Use fis
hinists’ trade the
quire into. They exp
YEArs for A little lev
could get shoveling, and
ce into a first-class, wel
ist, with no particular mental effort
ion their part. The result to
lsee. We see iL every day in the army of
workmen who can do only the com-
.N pay
then blossom
y
=n
18 @asy
single branch of the trade of which they
call themselves masters,
{ This, 1claim, is from want of thought
| on the part of the boy or man himself,
| The steam-pump man, if he has mas-
| tered the trade as far as taught in the
| steam-pump shop, has mastered the
{ principles upon which the steam-pump
| operated, and is a competent man to
i send out to repair-a gas engine or a
| printing press: Bat this Le can not do
without thought, and thought is but
another name for study. The study
that it takes to master the principles of
| the steam-pump will incidentally bring
knowledge of other machinery that can
not fail to be of use some time,
A boy once taught the habit of indi-
vidual thinking about his work, a place
in the front rank of mechanics is sure
to be his, Thought will give him con-
fidence and skill, and with these two
elements in his mechanical make-up
he will prove a valuable man anywhere
he is employed, whether they build
saw-mill machinery or machine tools to
build saw-mill machinery with,
Tae decomposition of paste may be
prevented by adding to it a small quan-
tity of carbolic acid. In the same way
the disagreeable smell which glue has
may be prevented, If a few drops of
the solution be wdded to ink or mueil-
age they will not mold, For whitewash,
especially when used in cellars and such
places,
carbolic acid to a
mold and 4
hin
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BokEARRE A Bes
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON.
Buspay, Nov. 27, 1887.
Hesus and the Babbath,
LESSON TEXT,
(Matt. 12: 1.14. Memory verses, 10.13)
LESSON PLAN.
Moric oF THE QUARTER :
King tn Zion.
GOLDEN TEXT FOR THE QUARTER!
Thine, O Lord, 1s the greatness, and the
Jesus the
heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is
the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted
as head above all.—1 Chron, 29 : 11
Lesson Toric;
alions Concerning His Day.
+
ILaosson
Outjine :
of the Baboath, va, 6 8,
vi. 10-14
i
2. Lord
i. Heallng on the Babbatn,
GOLDER Text: It is lawful
well on the sabbath days. —Matt, 12 : 12,
ADINGS:
1-14. Declarations
(aay.
Dairy Home Ry
M.—Matt, 12
concerning his
T } »
ie] narrati
Luke
ti
Offensive Action
‘omplaint
i
Hi Lordly Reply
» than the
ii
archer of the
Sabhath
Luke 6 : 5).
[He not only brake the sabbath, 1
God | win Father
ut also
called {John
OH: 18)
1 ““One greater than the temple is
he n 1} The acknowledged
greatness of the temple ; (2) The
superior greatness of the Lord,
Greater (1) In his nature (2) In
his influence ; (3) In his duration.
“If ve had Kknown,....ye
not have condemued.’® (1) Relig-
ious ignorance the source of relig-
fous error: (2) Religious knowl
edge the source of religious accur-
ev,
“The Son of man is lord of the
sabbath.” (1) A lowly title; (2) A
lordly claim. Lord of the sabbath
in (1) Appointing its duties; (2)
Honoring its observance,
III. HEALING ON THE SABBATH
I. Needing Help:
Behold, a man having a withered
hand (10),
Was nothing bettered, but rather grew
worse (Mark 5: 26).
She. ...could in no wise lift herself up
(Luke 14: 11)
A certain man....thirty and eighty
years in his infirmity (John 5 : 3),
A certain man, impotent in his feet
{Acts 14 : 8),
Il Expounding Law:
It is lawful to do good on the sabbath
day (12).
Some. ... were over the shrewbread, to
Ah it every sabbath (1 Chron,
: 32L
-
FPR
PE
5 i 8 way
i
Is it lawful to heal on the
(Matt, 12:10).
The sabbath was made for man, :
not wan for the sabbath (Mark 2:
Is it lawful on the sabbath day
save a life? (3 : 4).
111. Bestowing Wholeness :
It was restored 48
{13}.
Thy faith hath made thee
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sabbath day!
we ile 1% 3
whole. he other
whole (Matt
Her daughter was healed from that how
(Matt, 15:
They returning to the house, found
the servant whole (Luke 7: 18),
Eneas, Jesus Christ healeth thee
Fr
{Acs
might
racy (1) Its
victim ; (3)
Its methods ;
him."
ering
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orig
accuse
Its ol
5) Its re
po
nn the
ing good,
Doing evil,
wever in order,
He
Ieslors
stretched it forth © and it ;
(1) Commandment ; (2)
{9% Fries
la) Blessing,
Ol Ateneo y
LESSON BIBLE READING,
I'HE BEABBATH.
1. Its Origin and Objects:
In
iene fit
Lied
the
Know just
sound.
road the
and days
miles a half,
Ig.
Another thing that bothers me is the
bad sidewalks. I kmow all the holes
and loose places and cellarways, but
sometimes the holes and jogs aie so
thick that they are a terrible bother lo
a blind man, It is bad up by North
the El Dorado
here on Market
Brewery and along
the northeastern part of the town.
the mid-
to brush
He crossed over, halted in
corner.
—— A ———
A South American Visitor,
“There is something new,’ said a
to be half way between a turkey and a
pheasant.
“What is iL?" he was asked.
“A curassow. Itisanative of South
America, and does not come north of
the Isthmus, A few of them have been
imported to this country, and they
seemed to take, and the probability is
that they will become very popular,
They are about the size of a pea fowl,
and their plumage varies from a glossy
black to gray, and there is occasionally
one that is mottled white and black,
They have a peculiar tuft of feathers
on top of their heads, which they can
raise and lower at will, In Brazil these
birds jun at large like wild turkeys,
and It good sport shooting them,
They are easily domesticated, and are
wonderfully fine eating. There is such
a demand for them that & large num.
ber will be brought up from South
America, and they will a dxbibited at
the poultry shows this w »