Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 21, Petersburg, Pike County, 1 October 1897 — Page 2

SI!. = TALMAGE'S SERMON. Jkb Appeal tor More Hearty Congregational Singing. CoMMMdcd kj Oud The Itu i®f fcUrr«d 8m| H Hu to Hwllu or to

*er. T. DeWiit Talmas, in the folwwtag aermou, rallies the churches to taore hearty congregational singing. At la baaed on the text: St fine even to pass, as the trumpeters and Shun i it were as one. to make one sound to be dMaid la praising aad thanking the Lont-II The temple was done. It "aa the «ery chorus of all magnificence and pomp. Splendor crowded against epteudor. It was the diamond necklace of the earth. From the huge pULara crowded with leaves and flowers aad rows of pomegranate wrought out la boraished metal, down eveu to the tonga and auoffers matte out of pure gold, everything was as complete as the God-direeted architect could make H. It aeeujed as if a vision from Heaven had alighted on the mountains. The ■tlhy for dedication came. Tradition nays that there were in aud around aboat the temple on that day SUO,* hM silver trumpets, 40,000 timbrels aud singers; so that all modern demons Lr a lions at Dusseldorf or Boston seem uothing compared with that, its this great sound surged up amid the precious stoues of the temple, it xnoat have seemed tike the river of life dashing against the amethyst of the wall of lleaven. The sound anise, asti God, as if to.show that He was well pleased with nie'music which His •children make in all ages. dropped into the midst of the temple a cloud of glory so overpoweriog that, the ofliviat»ag priests were obliged to stop in the moist of the services. There has been much discussion as to where music was boru. 1 think that wi the beginning, “when the morning .tins sang u*g -tlier and all the sous of Ah*i shouted for joy.” that the earth heard the echo. The cloud on which the angels stood to oelebrats the creaiiiiti was the birthplace of song. The «tara Uiat glitter at night are only so many keys of celestial pearl. on which •God’s liugers pla.v the spheres, Inanimate nature is full of stringed and wiad instrument*. Silence itself -perfect ailetice—is only a musical rest in tloti' great anthem of worship. Wind among the leaves, insect humming in the summer air, the rush of billow «|Mi the beach, the ocean far out Wounding its everlasting psalm, the bobolink on the edge of the forest, the quail whistling up from the gpmss. are music. While visiting Blackwed's island. 1 heard, coming from a window of the lunatic asylum, a very aw ret song. It was sung by one who i had lost her reasou, and [ have come j to believe that eveu tiie deranged and disordered elements of nature would1 awake music .to our ear if \\e only had ; ncuU-tte.ss enough to asten. 1 suppose that (• yen the sounds in nature that tarn discord .nit ami repulsive make luir- ; atony iu bod's ear. You know in at iy come so near to au orchestra 1 the souiivls arc painful instead of <pic*»u ruble, and 1 think that we stand near devastating storm and frightful whirlwind, we can uot hear that which makes to God's ear aud the ear of Uie spirits above us a music as complete aa it is tremendous. I propose to speak about sacred muc, first show tug you its importance ail then stating som« of the obstacles 40 iU advancement. I draw the first argument for the importance of sacred music from the fact God commanded it. Through Paul He tells us to admonish one another in psalms aud hymns and ritual song'; through David lte out: “ding ye to God, all ye iagdoms of the earth." And there re hundred* of other passages 1 might ante, proving that it is as much u urn * duly to sing us it is his duty to nay. Indeed, 1 think there are commands iu the Bible to than there are to pray. God «miy asks for the human voice, but the instruments of music. He asks the cymbal and the harp aud the pet And 1 suppose that iu the days of the church the harp, the i, the trumpet. and all the iustruivwta of music that have given their lirf aid to the theater ami bacchaual, Ut he brought by their masters aud id down at the feet of t'hrist, and mm nonnded in the church's triumph t her way from suffcriug into glory. ‘Praise Ye the LordBraise Him rlth your voices. Braise Him with

iftjfeu uiairuxucui* uui wnn us. i draw another argument far the parlance of this exercise from the mpreuaiveuess of the exercise. You something of wliat secular must achieved. You kuo«r it has its impression __ upou go re rata. upon laws. ufHiu literature, whole generations. One inspirational air is worth 30.000 men as ding army. There comes a time the battle wheu one bugle is worth thousand muskets, lu the earlier of our civil war the government j to economise in bands of muy of them were seat home, ! the __generals iu the army sent to Washington: “Yon are making It mistake. We are falling back ad falling hack. We hare not enough < ~ I hare to toll you that no user church can afford to severely —aiar it music. Why should we rob the programmes worldly gayety when we hare so ay appropriate songs and tunes in oar own day. as well as idceat inheritance of church which has come down fra- [ with the devotions of other gennes no more worn out than oar great-grandfathers climbed them from the church pew to j t Dear old aOuls. how they used ! And in those days there were - tune* married to certain hymns, thee have lived iu peace a great1 teae two old people, and we right to divorce them. Horn t

ms We hare 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 the sphere of Christian harmony, and try to seek unconsecrated sounds. It is absurd for a millionaire to steal, . Many of you are illustrations of I what a sacred song can da 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 of Charles Wesley or John Kewton or Toplady. the lore of Jesus was sung to I y ur soul, then you surrendered, as an [ armed castle that could not be taken ; by a host, lifts its window to listen to a I harp's trill. There was a Scotch soldier dying in I 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, be1 ginning with the words:

on. mcuner aw, Jerusalem, When shall I come to thee? He sang it to the tuae of Dundee, end everybody iu Scotland knows that; and, as he began to siug, the dying soldier turned orer on his pillow and said to the minister: “Where did you learu that?" “Why,” replied the minister, “my mother taught me that,** “So did uiiue,” said the dying soldier; and the very foundation of his heart was upturned, and then and there he yielded himself to Christ. Oh, it has an irresistible power. Luther's serrnous have beeu forgotten, but his Judgment Hymn sings on through the ages, aud will keep on singing until j the blast of the archangel’s trumpet j shall bring about that very day which I the hymn celebrates. I would to God j that you would take these songs of j salvation S> messages from Heaven; for j just as certainly as the birds brought i food to Elijah by the brook Cherith, so j these winged harmonies. God-sent, are ! flying to your soul with the bread of j life. Open your mouth aud take it, 0 j hungry Elijah! 1 have also uotieed the power of sacred song to soothe pertubatiou. You • may have come in here with a great j many worrimeuts and anxiety, yet j perhaps in the singing of the first j hymn you lost them all. You have j read in the Bible of Saul, and how he j was sad and angry, and how the boy j David came in and played the evil j spirit out of him. A Spanish king was j melancholy. The windows were all closed, lie sat in the darkness. Noth- f ing could bring him forth uutil Fra- j neli came and discoursed music for j three or four days to. him. On the j fourth da. he looked up and wept aud rejoiced, uud the wiudows were thrown I open, and that which all the splendors ; of the court could not do the power of ! song accomplished. If you have anxi- j eties aud worriments, try this heavenly charm upon them. 1X> not sit dowu on the bank of the hymn, but pluuge j in, that the devil of care may be ! brought out of you. It also amuses to action. Do you uot know that a singing church is all ways a triumphant church? If a congregation is silent during the exercise or partially sileut. it is the silence of death. If when the hymn is given out you hear the fniut hum of here and there a father and mother in Israel, while the vast majority are silent, that i minister of Christ who is presiding j needs to have a very stroug eonstitu- : tion if he does not get the chills. He needs u^t only the grace of God, but nerves like whalebone. It is amazing how some people with voice enough to discharge all their duties iu the world, when they come into the house of God have no voiee to discharge this duty. 1 really believe that if the Church of Christ could rise up aud sing as it i ought losing, where we have a hun-j dred souls brought into the kingdom ! of Christ there would be a thousand, j How was it in olden times? Cajetau < said: “Luther conquered us by his songs." But I mus’t new speak of some of the obstacles in the way of the advancement of this sacred music, aud the first! is that it,has been impressed into the service of Natan. 1 am far from believ- ‘ tug that music ought always to he pusitivclv religious. Uefiued art has opened places where music has been secularized. and awfully so. The draw-ing-room. th$ ouneert. by the gratification of pure taste, and the production of harmless amusement aud the improvement of talent, have become verystrong forces iu the a Ivancement of our civilization. Music has as much 1 right to laugh iu Surrey gardens as it has to pray iu St. 1’aul a In the king- i dom of nature we have the glad fifing of the wind as well as the long metre psahu of the thunder. But. while all this is so, every observer has noticed that this art, which God inteuded for the improvement of the ear and the > voiee, aud the head aud the heart, has often been impressed into the service of error. Tartini. the musical composer. dreamed one night that Satan snatched from his hand an instrument and played upon it something very sweet—a diVam that has often beeu I fulfilled in our day, the voice and the instruments that ought to have been 1 devoted to Christ, captured from the church and applied- to the nuroases of !

am. Another obstacle has been aa inordinate fear of criticism. The vast majority of people singing in church never want anybody else to hear them sing. Everybody is waiting for somebody else to do his duty. 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 theu if you get the wrong pitch or keep wrong time He will forgive any deficiency of the ear and imperfection of the voices. Angela will not laugh if you should lose your place in the musical scale or come in at the close a bar behind. There are three schools of singing. I am told— the German school, the Italian schools and the French school of staging. Now, 1 would like to add n fourth school, and that is the school of Christ.

Another obstacle in the advancement of this art has been the erroneous no tion that this part of the service could be conducted by delegation. Churches have said: “Oh, what an easy time we shall have. The minister will do the preaching, and the choir will do the singing, and we will have nothing to do.” And you know as well as 1 that there are a great multitude of churches all through this land where the people are not expected to sing. The whole work is done by delegation of four or six or ten persons, and the audience are silent. In such a church 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 all the singing, and the great mass of the people are expected to be silent, and if you utter your voice you are interfering. In that church they stand, the four, with opera glasses dangling at their side, singing: “Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me,” with the same spirit that, the night before on the stage, they took their part in the “Grand

micncsse or "won uiovanm. My Christian friends, have we a right to delegate to others the discharge of this duty which God demauds of us? Suppose that four wood thrushes propose to do all the singing some bright day, when the woods are nugiug with bird voice. It is decided that four wood thrushes shall do alt the singing of the forest. Let all other voices keep silent. How beautifully the four warble. It is realty hue tuusic. But how long will you keep the forest still? Why. Christ would come into the forest and look up, as He looked through the olives, and He would wave His hand and say: “Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord;” and, keeping time with the stroke of innumerable wings, there' would be 5.00U bird voiees leaping into the harmony. Suppose this delegation of musical performers were tried in Heaven; suppose that four choice spirits should try to do the siugiug of the upper temple. Hush now! thrones aud dominions and principalities. David, be still, though you were the sweet singer of Israel. Haul, keep quiet, though you have come to that cru&n of rejoiciug. Richard Baxter, keep still, though this is the “saints' everlasting rest." Four spirits now do all the siuging. liut how long would Heaven be quiet? How long? “Hallelujah!” would cry some glorified Methodist from uuder the altar. “Praise the Lord!” would sing the martyrs from among the thrones, “Thanks be unto God who giveth us the victory!” a great multitude of redlemed spirits would cry—myriads of voices corniug, iuto the harmony, and the one .hundred and forty aud four thousand breakiug forth iuto oue acclamation. Stop that loud singing! Stop! Oh, no; they can not hear me. You might as well try to drown the thunder of the sky, or beat back the roar of the sea*,for every soul in Heaven has resolved to do its own singing. Alas! that we should have tried on earth that which they can not do in lleaveu. aud, instead of joining all our voices iu the praise of the most high God, delegating perhaps to uncousecrated men aud women this most solernu aud most delightful service. Music ought to rush from the audieuee like the water from a rock — clear, bright, sparkling. If all the other part of the church service is dull, do not have the music dull. With so mauy thrilling thiugs to sing about, away with drawling and stupidity! There is nothiug makes me so nervous as to sit in a pulpit aud look off ou au audience with their eyes three-fourths closed aud their lips almost shut, mumbliug the praises of God. During my recent abseuce I preached to a large audicuce, and all the music they made together did not equal oue skylark. People do not sleep at a coronation. Do not let us steep 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 weakuess or fatigue excuses us. Seated in au easy pew we can not do this duty half so well a> when, upright, we throw our whole lx>d3’ into it. Let our soug be like au acclamatiou of victory. You have a right to siug. Do not surrender your prerogative. We want to rouse ail our families up

on tae subject. \\e waul each family of our congregation to be a siugiug school. Childish petulance, obduracy and intractability would be soothed if we had more siugiug in the household, and then our little ones would be prepared for the great congregation on Sabbath day, their voices uuitiug with our voices in the praises of the Lord. After a shower there are scores of streams that come down the mountain side with voices rippling and silvery, pouring into one river, aud then rolling in united strength u> the sea. So I would have all the families in our church send forth the voice of prayer ana praise, pouring it into the great tide of public worship that mils on aud on to empty into the great, wide heart of God. Xev r can we have our church sing as it ought until our families siug as they ought. There will be a great revolution on this subject in ail our churches, God will come dowu by His spirit aud rouse up the old hymus and tuues that have not been more than half awake since the time of our grandfathers. The silent pews in the church will break forth into music, aud when the conductor takes his plaoe on the Sabbath day there will be a great host of voices rushing into the harmony. Mv Christian friends, if we have no taste for this service on earth, what will we do in Heaven, where they all sing, and sing forever? 1 would that our singing to-day might be like the Saturday night "rehearsal for the Sabbath morning in the skies and we might begin now, by the strength and by the help of God to discharge a duty which none of us has fully performed. And now what more appropriate thing Dan i do than to give out the doxoiogy of the heave us: “Unto Him who hath loved us, and washed os from our sins in HU own blood, to Him be vlorr for* sverr

THE ST. LOUIS FAIR The Great Annoal Event Will be of Surpassing Interest. i _ Ik WUI Open Monday* October 4, end Clone Saturday. October ». end Win Afford a Week of Profitable Pleaaure.

The great St. Louis fair of 1897 wil opeu on Monday. October 4, and will close Saturday, October 9. This is the Thirty-seventh annual fair, and judging solely from the preparations made, it will surpass all others in point of general attractiveness. The premium list this year is larger and more liberal than ever before. Exhibitors are not charged one cent for space and entries, and this liberal policy is largely influential in bringing before the world the best and most elaborate line of exhibits in all branches of industry, agriculture and its allied interests. Vice-Presi-dent and General Manager Robert Aull informs us that in all his experience and identification with the great St. Louis fair he has never seen such widespread interest taken iu its welfare as is manifested this year. He says there will be a greater variety of live^ stock of a high class, thoroughbred, blooded type, and that breeders are sending iu their exhibits in greater numbers than ever before. This department will be one of the leading features of the great fair. It will be a matter of gratification to the thousands ot manufacturers of agricultural implements. reapers, balers, binders, road machines, etc., to know that the spacious iufield of the great mile race course will be devoted this year to the use and display of these great engines of modem invention and progression. They will all be leen iu this splendid space allotted them, and which has every advantage iu the matter of convenience and accessibility from all parts of the great fair grounds. The poultry department, the dairy, the fruit and vegetable and the textile departments will be loaded to their fullest capacity with a grand trray of commodities that come under their respective heads. In the fruit and vegetable department will be shown a miniature plantation of African cotton contributed by Col. Jackson, direct from his immense" plantation amidst the red hills >f Georgia. This will be a decided novelty, and will no donbt attract unircrsal attention. The carriage departmeut will show a great array of veaieles of all characters from the “little red wagon” to all kinds of horseless rarriages. There will'be fully oue hundred vehicle manufacturers represented. While everything is being lone to make the fair a success in its educational work, the thousands of risitors who will visit the fair this fear will also find provided for their uuusement and edification a fine, clean irray of attractions. The old-time Midway features will be eliminated entirely, aud there will be no side shows with “spielers” to them. Instead this fear the management have prorided some of the strongest aud most lelebrated of out-door amusement enterprises. Among them will be: The Corbett-Fitxsimmons veriscope pictures jf the great glove contest, a work of Irt that has been admired by the thousands that have witnessed it. Tnstin & Rose, the world's famous high divers, who do marvelous mid-air feats in the srt of high diving. The three Watson Sisters aud Zamora in their great reviving trapexe aerial aet. Col. J. Murray lloag and his sixteeu Shetland pohies.the most wonderful equine midgets ever bred. A miniature railroad, whose tracks are only one foot wide, and upon which run a miniature locomotive and 4 dozen cars, that carry from ten to twelve passengers each, aud many others equally good. In fact, the great St Louis Fair of 1S97 will be uaequaled in magnitude aud interest The railroads have made a rate of oue fare for the rouud trip, which fact will no doubt be takeu advantage of by thousauds who have not been able for aue reason or another to attend in rears past GILBERT’S BID ACCEPTED. j Itl* of the Timber on the K«hI Cliff Chippewa Indian Keeervatiou. Washington. Sept 95.—The departi meat of the interior has accepted the f bid of Frederick L. Gilbert for all the j timber on Red Cliff Chippewa Indian I reservation in Wisconsin. It is estimated that the timber ainouuts to 100,000,000 feet, and Mr. Gilbert s bid ia $416,000. The conditions of the sale provide that Mr. Gilbert shall establish mills on the reservation and manufacture there the lumber to be made from the timber; that he shall cut not [ less than 10,000,000 feet or more than ! 30,000,000 feet a year, and that he shall ; employ Indian labor when practicable to do so.

APPEAL REJECTED. lueHlac to Reb*Ulou to India Not a Mottor for CleMoocy. Bombay, Sept 45.—The appeal of 1 tiangaduar Tilak, the native member of the legislatire council and partner of Eshoo Madow Bal. in publishing the newspaper Keaari. has been rejected. Tilak was sentenced to 18 months’ rigorous imprisonment, on September 14, for inciting the natives to disaffeo tion. Lint. Peary's Kotoro. PuiLAPBLt'MlA, Sept, ii. —Lieut. B. £. Peary, the Arctic explorer, arrived in this city Thursday night. Ue went direct to the Lafayette hotel, and. alter a light lunch, retired to hia room without registering. Ue gave orders not to be disturbed, saying that he would receive no one. Early In the morning the explorer was driven to the League Island navy yard, where he said he was going on official oustness. Ue stated that what he considered the moat important dlaeovery waa the boding of "elics of the Ureely expedition.

WOODFORD IN MADRID.

Tlw Arrival at the Minister Creates a Seaeatlaa—The Ptogreuae at the Ceiled State* Does Not Contemplate a Declaration at War, Bat a Proclamation of Disapproval—The Bitterness at tha Press anti Public Opinion a Surprise. Madrid, Sept. 27.-r-The arrival -of Minister Woodford from San Sebastian has made a sensation. The programme of the United States has been ascertained. This does not contemplate a declaration of war if Spain rejects mediation, but, according to report, an “ostentatious proclamation to the world of disapproval of the Cuban regime by suspending diplomatic relations with Spain and withdrawing the United States minister.” Gen. Woodford has declined to be interviewed on the subject further than to say that his conference with the duke of Tetuan, the foreign minister, was of the most satisfactory character. The unexpected bitterness, of the press and of public opinion has painfully impressed him, but be hopes this will soon be allayed, as he believes his mission favorable to Spanish interests.and cannot comprebeud that Spain could reject mediation designed to end an impoverishing war. lie has not named a time at which the war must be terminated, but he hopes, aa the result of his tenders that it will be eaded quickly. He believes the war is iufliotiug incalculable loss upon the United States, aud that it is impossible to prevent the organisation of filibustering expeditions. Unusual measures were taken to protect Miuister Woodford on his journey from Sau Sebastiau to tnis city, but the trip was quite uneventful. A party of gendarmes, commanded by a sub-lieuteuant, guarded the Southern express, on which he was a passenger. Secret police were posted at the station, and the prefect of police was in waiting to escort him to his hotel. The drive through the streets was marked by nosfeeial incident, though several persous saluted him, receiviug a bow iu return. Some comment lias been caused by the fact that Minister Woodford's fam ily has not accompanied him, but re mains behind the French frontier. Minister Woodford explains that his party is a large one, requiring a commodious home, aud prefer spending c pleasant October at Biarritz until ■ suitable resideuce ean be secured here. The legation cannot be used as a resideuce. Gen. Woodford hasi already engaged a box ° at the Koval opera house and has purchased horses. THEY DIED TOGETHER. Sad Result of Parental Objection to a Marriage. Sh A mo kin. Pa.. Sept. 26.—The bodies | of Arthur W. May. aged 24 years, and Miss Cora Kaseman. aged IS years, both of Shamokin, were fouud in the blacksmith shop of Joseph Sminki May had | shot his sweetheart and then blew out i his own brains. The murderer and suicide was a blacksmith, and up to the i time of his death had been employed by Mr. Smink. The couple had been lovers for some I time, and last week they arranged to ! go away aud be quietly married. The j parents of the young womau objected | to the marriage, and this caused a postponement. Being thus opposed by the parents of the girl, the young couple evidently matte up their minds to end their troubles by dying together. They met Friday night and, it is supposed, made all arrangements to carry out their terrible plan. The girl left her home at an early hour and went direct to the blacksmith shop, where May was in waiting. The couple went into the second story of the building, where the tragedy was enacted. AN AWFUL DISASTER. A Russian Ship Catches Fire While Everybody U Aeleep -Mauy Lives Lost. Sr. Petersburg, Sept. 37.—A dispatch from Ufa, capital of the department of Ufa, on the Ufa and the Belaia, in southern Russia, says that the steamer Admiral Gervais, with 2JO passengers. while lying off the town, took fire while all were asleep. A terrible panic ensued, owing to the fact that before the passengers could disembark the steamer was moved into midstream | in order* not to endanger neighboring | vessels. Many passengers jumped overboard ; to escape the flames. Some were res- ; cued, but many were drowned. Two were burned to a crisp, and ; several others seriously. The total number of victims has not yet been aa- ' eertained.

THE WEST INDIA HURRICANE. The Katls J. Ireland Sent to the Bottom - Timely Beecne of the Crew. New Yock. Sept. 87.—The fourmasted schooner Goodwin Stoddard arrived yesterday from Feruandina, Fla., and reported a severe experience daring the hurricane which prevailed off the southern coast during the past week. On September 18 Niles Svendson. one of the crew, a Norwegian, fell from the spanker masthead to the deck and was instantly killed. On the 23d the schooner Katie J. Ireland was sighted, flying a distress signal. She was sinking and had lost afl her boats. The Stoddard took off the crew of the Ireland, consisting of Capt Crockett and seven men, and the Ireland sank one hour and forty minutes later. None of the men saved anything. SECRETARY GAGE AT BOULDER Examining Minas and Wall Pleased with the Prospects. Dexykb, CoL. Sept 87.—Secretary of the treasury Lyman J. Gage left last night over the Burlington road for Chicago. Secretary Gage, with Mrs. Gage has been spending the past week or ten days in Boulder. CoL, where he has been examining the mining properties operated by his brother-in-law, CoL Wesley Braiaerd. While the secretary refused to express himaetf upon his visit to Bonlder. it is stated that hs is wall pleassd with the urospeots.

Ujt Month at the Tennessee C«l-» trnalal aad Industrial fixpoattioa. The month of October closes this greatest of all Expositions ever held in the Southland next to the Columbian, the best ever Weld in this country. For the closing month, special attractions have been arranged, and the rates from all parts of the country have been made lower than ever before known. The location (Nashville, Tenn.) is on the main line of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, directly on its through car route between the North and South, and the tnp in either direction via that city can bo made as cheaply, if not cheaper, than via any other route. Ask your ticket agent for rates, or write to C. P. Atmore, General Passenger Agent, Louisville, Ky., for rates and information. Clerk—“You say you will take this hammock, miss?’* She—“Yes, hut I want two of them." Clerk—“Very well, madam.”— Life.

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