REV. DR. TALAGE
The Brooklyn Divine’s Sunday
Nermoin,
fubféct: “The Importance of Sacred
Music.”
Text: “His brother's name was Jubal?
was the falher of all such as handle
harp and organ.”—(enesis iv, 21.
Lamech had two boys, ths one a herdsman
ind the other a musician. Jubal, tha
unger son, was the first organ builder,
0 started the first sound that rollad from;
the wondrous instrumont which has had so
much to do with the worship of the ages
But what improvement has beer made un-
fer the hands of organ bulclers such as
Bernhard, Sebastian Bach and Georza
Hogarth and Joseph Booth and Thomas
Robjohn, clear on down to George and Ei.
ward Jardine of our own dav, IL do not
wonder that when the first organ, that wa
read of as given in 737 by an emperor of the
east toa king of France, sounded forth its
full grandeur a woman fell into a delirium
from which her reason was never restored.
The majesty of a great organ skillfully
played is almost too much for human endur-
ance, but how much the instrument has done
in the re-smforcoment of divine serviesit
will take all time and all eternity to cele
brate, Last April when we dedicated this
church to the service of Almighty God our
organ was not more than half done. 1t has
NOW Come so near completio is morn.
ing [ preach a serm
mighty throne of sacred 3
the eye as well as the ear, Jehold 8 0
tain of anthems! This forest of hosann
Its history is peculiar,
The late Mr, re Jardine redently
a tour of the « )
ered up in his ;
excellences
music on the
all the new impr
that portfoli ]
Brooxiyn Tal
vantage of a » had obta
he did not live to carry out
Mr. Edward Jardine, has intr
great organ al
grandeurs, a
ou hear a
Yr and
mada
ernacle s
Paul and Westmin
great organs th 3
in 1% ar
than [
and th
Him.
that ev
ments o
ear,
listen,
nate
sana
indirect
been estim i. no
seventy -taree mi
Now, [ say, when God
the human voice,
whole eart)
recognized
right to come tw the conclusion
loved music,
I propose this morning, in setting apart
this organ for sacrad us», to spsak about sa.
ered music; first showing you ita importancs
and then stating somes of the obstacles to its
advancement,
I draw the first argument for the im-
tance of sacred music from the fact that
Rod commanded it. Through Paul He tells
us to admonish oue another in psalms and
hymns and spiritual songs, and through
David He cries out, “Bing ys to God, all ye
kingdoms of the earth.” And thera are
hundreds of other passages I might name
proving that it is as much a man’s duty to
singas it ishs duty to pray. Indesl I
think there are more commands ia $e Bible
to sing than thers are to pray.
God not only asks for the human votes bud
for instruments of music. He asks for the
cymbal, and the harp, and the trumpet, as
well as the organ, And I suppose that in
the last days of the church, the harp, the
lute, the trumpet and all the instruments of
music, whether they have been in the service
of righteousness or sin will be brought by
their masters and ‘aid down at the feet of
Christ, and then swundel in the church's
triumgh, on her way from sdffering into |
glory. ‘Praise yo the Lord!" Praise Him |
with your voices, Praise Hin with stringed |
lustruments and with organs,
1 draw another argument for the import.
ance of this exercise froma the mn oreesi veness
of this exercise. You know something of
what secular music bas schisved, You
know it has made ils impression on govern
ments, upon laws, upon Hterature, upon
whole generations, One inspiring national
air is worth thirty thousand men as a
standing army, There comes a tine in the
battle when ous bugle is worth a thousand
muskels, 1 have to tell you that no nation
or church can afford to severely sconomise
nm muste,
Many of you are illustrations of what
sacred song can do, Through it you were
brought into the Kingdon Jesus Christ,
You stood out against the argument and the
warning of the pulpit, but in the
sweet words of Issac Watts or Wes
ley or John Newtou or Toplady, the love of
Jesus was sang to your soul then
rendered, as armel castle that cou aot be
taken by a host lifts its window to leten to a
harps thrill. Theres was a Scotch soldier
dying in New Or and a Scotch minister
consolations
sounds |
has so constructsd
and when he has filled the
1 v, and when he
in the ancient temple, | havea
that God
ion
came in to give him of the
Gospel. The man tumed over on his pillow
snd said, “Don’t ik 40 us about rel »
Then the Hooteh pega to
familiar hymn of Seotiand
ead tY4 Dictenu,
ho w i
Oh. mother, dear Jernsalom,
When shail I come to thee?
Mo maz it to the tans of “Dantas” ant
everybedy in Scotland knows thai: and as
he began to sing the dying soldier turnsi
over-on his pillow, and said $0 the minister:
“Where did vou learn that? “Why? re.
plied the minister, “my mother taught mo
that” “So did mine,” said thadying Seotoh
pold ar; and the very foundation of his hears
was upturned, and then and thera he vislda i
himself to Christ, Oh, it has an irrasistibls
power, Luther's sermons have bean forgot.
ten, but his “Judgment Hymn” sings on
of the archangal’s teumpat
shall bring about that very day which the
hymn celebrates. I would to God that thoss
who hear me to-day would take thes» songs
of salvation as messages from heaven: for
just as cartainly as the birds brought fod to
Elijah by the brook Cherith, so these wingel
harmonies, God sent, ars flying to your soul
with the bread life Open your mouth)
and take it, O hungry Elijahs!
In addition to tha inspiring music of our
own day wa havea glorious inheritanos of
church psalmody which has coms down fra-
grant with ths devotions of other geansra-
tions—tunes no more worn out than
were when our groeat-gran fathers climbed
up on them from ths share paw to glory,
Dear old souls, how they usal to sing! When
thoy were r granifathers and
grandmothers iohastae,”
When they wore than ths
monting-i South
Street” and ‘st. Eda I's’ they
struck throazh wit rr tanlernass thay
sang “Wo J ! virapoasd ia
sions of ths glor of tl why ¢ sh, sy Bane
Vs
ol
Laey
and gl
in thos t
ried to cert 3 anil they hava liv
in pencs a t wh s, ti
and we h r
hogs two old paoala,
thom,
aan
i wi
fey past,
Lt no
tha power of sacrel
tion, You may have
morning with a gra
and anxieties
» the first hy
nents and ancietios,
f Saul and
Sow Lhe f
ud p ol the
X
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cama in
im,
winaow
darkn
Ho sat
him
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closad,
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bring
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thom wait
if wa
at are evi
for somebody else to do
all sang, then the inaccuracis
dent when only a fow sing would not be
bear i at all; they would be drowned
God only asks you to do as well as you oan,
and then, if you get the wrong pitoh, or kesp
wrong time, He will forgive any deficiency
of the sar and imperfection of the voice, |
Angsis will not laugh if you should lose your
place in the pride, scala, or come in at the
close a bar behind,
There are threes schools of singing, [ am
told--the German school, the Italian school
and the Franch school of singing, Now, |
would like toadd a fourth school, and that
is the school of Christ. The voices of a con-
trite, broken heart, although it may notbe
able $0 stand human criticism, makes better |
oat.
music to God's ear than the most artistic |
wrformance when the heart is wanting, [|
now it is easier to preach on this than itis
to practice, but [ sing for two reasons—first,
because [ like it, and next, because [ want
to encourage thoss who do not know how, |
have but very little faculty in that direction,
yet I am resoived to sing. God has oom. |
mandad it, and Idare not be silent. He oails
on the beasts, on the cattle, on the dragons
to praises Him, and we ought not be behind |
the cattle and the dragons,
Another obatacie that has been in the way
of the advancement of this holy srt has
bean the fact that there has been so much
angry discussion on the subject of music,
vise conducted by musical instruments, In
like musical instruments, and so it is organ
aad no organ, and there fs a fight, In
another church it is a question whether the
music shall bs condneted by a precentor or
by a drilled choir, Soms want a drilled
choir anil some want a precentor, and there
is a fight, Then there ars those who would
like in the church to have the organ played
ina dull, Hfelegs, droning way, while there
ars others who would hays it wreathed int»
[antastics, branching out in and span,
of sound, rolling a eid oh ue
scmvaitions, as en, in pyrotechuio dis.
ay, after you think a piecs is exhausted,
It broaks out in wheels, Pookube blue lights
and serpentine demonstrations,
Som» would have the organ played fn al.
mont inandible sweetness, and others would
have it fall of staccato pase ges that make
the audiences jump, with zraat
on end, as thou
of Endor. And hb
Is going on, not in hb
an nite
today, is a ty hindrance to
vancement of this wrt, in this way
this part of the services could by emiduectal
by delegation. Churches hava sald: *Oh,
what an easy time wo shall have, This mine
tor will do the preaching, ths eholr will do
and, whara the people ars not expactsl th
sre silent,
In mich a church in Syracuse an old alder
persisted in singing,
£ ho would not stop, You know that in s
reat multitudes of churches tha cholr are ax.
pooted to do all the singing, and the graat
nass of the peonls are expoctad to ba oll wal,
umd if you utter your voice you are intaclors
ng. Thers thay stand, the four, with opera
glass dangling at their sides, sinzing,
“Rook of Ages, Claft for Ma” with tho sans
tpirit that the night before, on the stags,
Hay took their part in the “Grand Duchess’
w “Don Giovanni”
My Christian friends, have wa a right te
islogate to others the discharges of this duty
which God demands of us? Bupposs thal
lour wood thrushes should propose to 1s all
tha singing some bright day when the woods
inz with bird voices, It is decided
wood shrashes simll do all sha
Int all the other
How beautifally ths
four warbla! It is really fine music. Bus
how lonz will you kesp the forest stilif
Why, Christ would come into that forest and
ook up as Ha looked through the olives ani
He would wave His hand and say, ‘Lot
svarything that hath breath peatss thy
Lord,” and, keaping tims with tha st £
innumerable wings, thers would be five thou.
sand bird voles leaping iat the i
SUDPIES lalazation
four
finging of the forest,
voices keen silent
3% 0
this dels
re tried in heaven:
s spirits shoul i &
r temple. Hush, n
and principalitios
you wers ‘the swent
raw
vy £2
David!
singer
though you
Riche
do all the sic }
heaven be quiet?
r ROMO
artyrs from among
ks be unto God who giveth
a great multitude of
would ery.
Myriads of wvoloss coming |
mony, and the hundred
four yasand breaking fo
that lowd sir
BRI oe.
1 thunder
Live aaa,
:
rodeos
ona
of the aX
four
With «
Alte F 8 s tiem iH
that tain wit)
voices rip ; pi silver pouring in om
river and th ing in united strength
the ssa id have all the families §i
our church send {orth the voloe of pra ver and
praise, pouring it into the great tide of public
worship that rolls on and on © empty inf
the great, wide heart of God, Never can wi
have our church sing as it ought untfl ow
families sing as they ought.
There will be a great revolution on this
subject in all our churches, God will com
down by His spirit and rouse up the old
more
an hall awake since the time of our 4
fathers. The silent pews in the chu will
into music, and when the con
#hiln
Le
there will be a great host of voices rushing
into the harmony. My Christian friends, ii
sing, and sing forever?
Lwant to rouse you to s unanimity in
Christian song that has never yet been ex
hibited. Come, now! clear your throats
and get ready for this duty or you will never
hear the end of this never shall forget
hearing a Frenchman sing the “Marseil
lnise” on the Champs Elysws, Paris, jos
I never
ho sung that national air,
Frenchmen shouted! Have
English sssembiage heard baad play
“God Bave the Queen? If you have, you
know something about the enthusiasm of
a national air,
Now, 1 tell you that thess songs we si
oh! bow the
on ever in an
how do you ever expect $0 si the song of
Moses and the Lamb? [ should not be sure
Prise at all if some of the best anthems of
ven ware made up of some of the best
songs on vy ¥ God increase our reve
scence for Christian psimody, and keep us
from disgrac it by our indifference and
» When Cromwell's army went into
stood at the head of them one day,
and gaveout the long metar do to the
tune of the "Old Hundredth,” and that great
host, regiment b .
maak. baviaon by tation Joinotia tas
Prates (lod from whom all bless Gow,
Prales Him, all oreatarss Dore betes:
Praise Him above, ye heaventy tost,
Praise Father, Soa and Holy Ghost.
And while they sang Whey
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SHEET
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON,
EUNDAY. OCTOBER 11, 153.
Christ Foretelling His Death.
LESSON TE!
John 12: 20.836, Memory
[LESSON PLAN,
Toric OF Jesu
Son afl God,
rie QUARTERS
QUARTER
pig ht bes
the Non
1 ghd
Goroen 'T'uxr THY
1 hese are written, thal y«
lieve that Jesus ia the Christ,
of God: and that believing y¢
have life through his
20 : 31.
FOR
yreryiie,
Lesson Tovic: The Son I
ing Submission,
r
§. Anticipat
v3 #
Texr:
earth, wi
John 12 a.
And I. if
I be lifted
J els 4 s 17
1 il men
¥ Hoye I
—J ohn
ilin trating st
John 12
the
180,
world
§2
mee ness,
Isa. ©0
a (Fentiles
Acts 10
called.
Acts |
ed.
ti
He that honoreth not the
not the Father (John 5 : 23).
1 honor my Father, and ye dishonor me
(John 8 : 4
Son honoreth
49).
iT, MONORING SUBMISSION,
I+ A Time of Trial:
Now is my soul troubled (27).
My soul is exceeding sorrowful, cven
unto death (Math 26 : 88),
My God, my God, why hast thou for-
saken me? (Mark 15 : 34.)
How am Istraitened till it be
plished ! (Luke 12 : 50)
acoom-
il. A Spirit of Submission:
But for this canse came 1
hour (27
Not as I will, bat as thon
26 : 39),
I seek not mine own will,
of him that sent me (John 5
He humbled himself, becoming obe-
dient even unto death (Phil, 2 : 8),
11. An Endorsement from God:
This voice hath not come for my
sake, but for vonr sakes (30)
This is mv beloved Son, in whom I am
well pleased (Matt, 3 : 17).
This is my beloved Son;
him (Matt, 17
unto this
wilt (Matt,
but the will
s oh,
hear yo
. *
« Bh.
out of heaven (2 Pel. 1 : 158),
IV. ANTICIPATING VICTORY.
I. Eatan Cast Out:
Now shall the prince of this world be
east out (31).
1 beheld Satan fallen as lightuing from
heaven (Luke 10 : 18),
The prince of this world hath
judged (John 16 : 11),
lesin. the devil, and he will floes from
you (Jas, 4 : 7),
beon
I, if I be liftea up,... will draw all
men anto my self (32), a
s bave lifted up the Son o
y hen? then shall yo know (John 8 :
g8).
We proach Christ crucified (1 Cor, 1:
Fa be it from mo to glory, save in the
cross (Gal. 6 : 14)
il. The Light
Shining: !
have the light (5). i
of men tJohnl
i
9: 1%,
light into the world (John |
12 : 405,
Verge 21 we would
1) The Greeks; (2) The
(1) A noble
“Mir, BOG 3e |
RPOBLO |
de ire
1s
Verse J3. that
should be glorified.” |
(1) The erucinl honr; (2) The patient
Hon; (3) The cert in glory.
Verre 24. “11 it die it beareth much
fruit.” { Death the way to life; {21
Fruit outcome of sacrifice.-—(1)
2) The Lord's har-
“The hour is come,
the
Verse 26, —*If any man serve me, let
him follow me.” (1) Man's profesmon
Christ's demand for de-
votion. that serves;
;
{
Verse 24,
him
vive
“If any man
will the Father honor.’
in man; (2) Honor from God
Any man's i
ward.
service; Every man
afterno be-
fore our Lord's death. On the theory
that our Lord ate the jassover at the
legal time, the date of the lesson is the
12th of Nisan, A. U. C. 783; thst is,
'n ne sday n,
Persons
prosclytes of the gate, 1 of re. ognized
as Jews; Philip and Andrew; our Lord
and a multitude that stood by; a voice
out of heaven.
IxcrpexTs, Certain Greeks, desir-
snd the two
disciples tell Jesus. Our Lord predicts
bis speedy glorification, throogh his
desth, and sets forth the self-sacrifice
required of his followers. In trouble
of soul, he cries to his heavenly Father
to glorify his own i1ame, and is an-
swered by a voice out of heaven.
multitude, hearing this, discuss the oc-
currenoes,
voice came, and then predicts more
The multitude are perplexed,
not understanding how the Christ can
Our Lord again rep~csents himself as
the ‘“hght,” and admonishes them to
believe on the light :
given above, verse 36 is the last public
There is no parallel passage.
i A IAI AOSTA.
THE OLD COUPLE.
An aged man in an old armchair,
A golden Hight from the Western sky
His wily By hos si & With silvered hall,
And the open Book of God 2lose by
Be ret on the bay the gloaming falls,
And bright is the glow of the evening star
But clearer to thepare the Jasper walls
A nid the golden streets of the land afar,
we AVON,
——————— CA
1 he stean er Saale, atl Southampton,
reports terrife weather on the night of
the 45th. Nhe was **hove to’ for five
hours, :
Fifteen young men from Tipperary
and Kilkenny, bave been selectad by
Bi hop MeGoldrich, «f Doluth, Minn, ,
as student aspirants for the American
priesthood, hey have sailed for New
York.
—
THE MYSTERY OF THE PITCHER.
It, and No One Has Touched it Since,
Mr. J. B. Toomer recently told the
Athens Banner
story, that is as
teresting,
(Gay the following
as it is in-
singular
About five miles from Aiken, 8.C
y
and in
dirt road,
railway is a little place
“Pole Cat,”
afterwards changed to Montmo-
for that
little anima! Many VE4Ars ago a
was first christened
but
Frencn odorous
young
woman came
of
i, and get the vessel on
ith her pitcher to draw
6 bucket water from a well at Mont
8 Blone
ilroad men had moved
the water a
fers ro}
s that struck the
Ket was
bie
were
left
it a
ing removed,
has ever
or hand
wners, although
vad.
There is
surronnding
Hundreds «
the firm detery
in **An Austra.
5,” gives the following sc-
of how anlipodean flies disport
themselves:
“Alas, alzal if we have the
toes by night, there are also flies which
are a real terror by day, especially In
mosgi-
alike with Lhe inattentive or the atlen-
tive hearer. They don’t seem to inter-
est themselves much in the preliminary
part of the service—they are conspicu-
there is a good deal
of both in Austraiia-but immediately
settled yourself down in an attitude of
At first
At last your
blood boils, and you can stand it mo
longer. The tiny tormentor lies ioto
ia
of your nose, as=ails your forehead, at-
You give a bang, you
your enemy
is beyond your reach, only to return
with fresh vigor 10 the atiack. Not
& mowent dees he leave you at rest;
listen In peace
sermon lasts are you in a proper Christ.
lan frame of mind. When [ went to
hear Dr. Strong, the fy-Jfor provi.
dentially, asa rule, it Is only one fy
that attacks you at a time-—was es
pecially sctive. That flv must have
and thought I deserved little mercy
for once in my letime strayiog fom
she fold. AL say rate, Iutle mercy he
thowed to ne.’
= A
The Ame ican prchmologists who aro
upon the remuios of an ancient temple,
parts of which apparenuly go back to
the sixth century B. C., or within a
hundred years of the authentic begin.
ning of Greek history, Developments
of great wo terest are expos ted,
An automatic sprinkler plant can *a
too delicate in its action, as was chown
recently at Fails Fiver, Masa, where
fusible plugs melted on a very Lot Jay,
amusing some Jamar: «© pioperty.