| RR i | ES pz a_i by Rev. Charles H. Gilbert Our Mt. Zion choir sang a new anthem on Sunday. Not a startling statement, for choirs often buy from music publishers anthems recom- mended as something new in choir musi@® The title of this anthem wag ‘‘Trust Thou in God,” and in parentheses the information (Psalm 62). The book of Psalms is the source of church music and has been for centuries. The old Hebrew song book has been a source book since the time of King David and probably from before that. What is. new about this an- them is the music composed by Ross Santos and dedicated to the Rev. Charles Gilbert and Catherine dated Aug. 16, 1972. That was just eight weeks after the worst flood in our history began pourigg down our valley, toppling b{$dings, destroying property right and left! Swoyersville section got much of the worst of the flood, and RES Res Ross Santos and their three young children. Mr. Santos is on the faculty of music at Wilkes College; music is his life and livelihood. It has been our pleasure to hear him and some of his students in public per- formance. He also directs the choir of Figlif United Methodist Church in Wkikes-Barre. As soon as it seemed possible Catherine drove me down to the Santos home on Maple Drive. That was fine, for the water had not gone high enough to get on to their first floor! But we found Mr. Santos in the process of looking over his basement situation, for that is where his livelihood’’ just referred to was located. His piano was there—ruined. The panelling of his walls were ruined. His stacks and stacks of musie had been under water and mud. Some household appliances also were beyond rehabilitation. The heating system would be out of use for sometime. The water system— well, you know how all that goes. It was an easy matter for Badges Awarded At Recent Meeting Cub pac@igl32 held its regular meeting O®t. 27 at 7:30 at the United Trinity Church. Drew Fitch, Cubmaster welcomed boys and their parents and also held an inspection of the Cub’s uniforms. The following boys received badges: Walter Geffert, Silver Arrow; Raymond Litz, Bobcat and also entered into Weblos; Paul Johnson and Donald Hale also entered into Weblos. It was decided to hold a hoagie sale during November with proceeds to go towards the boy’s annual trip in the Spring. Also planned was a hike for a Saturday in November with the time to be announced at a later date. The meeting was opened and closed by Dens 1, 2 and 3. The next meeting will be held the last eR” November. 3 5/8" $3.79 $1.09 us to bring him some jugs of water from our well in the hills. We saw him cooking something by way of food on a small fire on the back porch! His wife and children were still in Ohio where they had gone for a visit before the flood came. A flood is no fit place for a “new anthem’’ to come from! Catherine and I told him we had heat in our house and by using his car trunk and ours we transferred the soggy mess up to our Mt. Zion home and began the process of drying out all the keys of g, f, b-flat and ¢, with the lines, bars, and spaces ‘‘ap- pertaining unto thereof.” Mimeograph paper made ex- cellent blotting sheets, and our range oven would do its share. A sunny day once in awhile heated our car bodies and roofs formed excellent drying grills! The Santos family had plenty to do ‘down home” for the next several weeks. How they ever could keep their spirits up for all that disheartening time! If it were I it is certain I would want to bang out some chords of music on the piano, like ‘‘Jesus Lover of My Soul,” (I used to be able to play Martin!) But no piano! How could anybody even sing! These remarkable people got along. They hadito get a place for a new piano. It was im- portant that this basement, the very heart and workshop of his life of music, had to be recon- ditioned. It was eight weeks before the date of Aug. 16 could a new anthem. It thrills me to realize that these people got a new melody going enough to create an anthem to which words from Psalm 16 were set. And those words “Trust Thou in God’’ would be singing their way through the rest of my life not only as a new anthem but as a whole new meaning because of the tribulation I saw from which that music was created. How many times I have needed just such an order to come into Thou in God.” Before this column comes to an end I want to pay tribute to the quality of music tran- scribing this remarkable man has been doing, and the quality of paper and ink he used in that doing. And I can not estimate how many hundreds or thousands of sheets of hand written music we handled over those days. But if the quality of paper had been less, or his ink been of poorer quality the whole story would have been utter ruin. But we could take up a few pages of soaking wet manuscripts and carefully peel them apart without tearing a corner! The ink did not run or fade! There were some books which were practically a loss, but these carefully written manuscripts were not spoiled. We are glad of that. It is a deep pain to think of the number of instruments of creative music which were damaged or destroyed in this flood. It seems certain that the original Creator can be counted on to work through many of his human sub-creators as they for themselves and posterity some noble pieces of work- manship that the fine arts in human life may not disappear, that some new bow in the sky may be flung over our horizons to reassure mankind that the best of his life will not cease. 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