Show v l- GLEANINGS FROM VARIOUS FIELDS N 1 S I S N N NAT AT THE LAST SUPPER On ci that climacteric evening when he and his disciples sat at their last supper supper supper sup sup- per after he had blessed the bread and given givert it to them as his his 1 body ody and th the wine as his s blood and had ad declared But I say unto you I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine until until un un- Until til that day when I drink it it new wi with 1 you In my Fathers Father's kingdom it would wo ld seem that the emotions of the moment li had d risen t to th that t point where words do donot donot donot not not- bring comfort and so I find the might inight of r f fm f m music sIc working in in the next next Verse velse of of Matthew l SO 20 0 which re records re- re cords And An when they had sung an hymn they went bu out into the mount of Olives If we we- but knew the tune of 11 that hymn Ii j j t tHere Here you observe as far back as the beginning of our era we find the world In possession of a a. stock o of tunes There can be little littie doubt that the melodies which the disciples sung with Christ Christin in ira person were handed down down- and formed le b dY f those t 1 se coli collections c CUd ns which Bishop Ambrose and after him Pope Pope Gregory brought brought together and itIs it itIs itis Is possible enough that the hymn which thich Christ and his apostles sung was sung sung yesterday in some church of America ica for for forwe we in our Psalmody Psalmody- riot pot to speak of the the- Gregorian tunes still stUl surviving as pj Plain ln C Chant 1 it In Iti the Catholic churches churches wh which h h have v comedown comedown come comedown down from from quite Immemorial times and the path of church music as I have haye shown leads directly back to to the hymn ym which was sung sung on the evening of the last s supper Maga Maga- zine |