Show A ff 0 a all 11 I 1 wa in fly N IS u TALKED ON MUSICAL FITS AND MISFITS music will bring out a mans character quicker than will his acts spillman rises riggs sang whistled spun yarns and philosophized all in ili the course of two hours last night at the tabernacle ills his audience was prepared beforehand for versatility depth of comprehension and a general statement of musical misfits as found among we th 0 people of our own country as well as in countries of eu en rope yet riggs proved a sur surprise prie in ili moro more ways than one at times he delved down own close to the nature of 1 great national emotion that finds its nay ay in sympathetic vibrations of sweet strains over the hills plains and woods of america then he deplot depleted ed the fa fat fait t decreasing love for simple folk songs which so closely bind the home in union and finally digressing from his main theme a humorous situation would be narrated not so 0 o pointedly 11 of his predominant thought but buoyant ani and not without the proverbial grain of tu truth mr rigga chose to speak of musical fits and misfits the place of music in the di disposition position of man its birly conception and crudity simple chants plaintive and gladsome stripped of a mechanical structure but a true index of the nature of man biere ere reviewed by the lecturer he emphatically asserted that a mans music indexed his character as truly as his arts acts did to illustrate several everal songs patriotic religious and folk melodies were sung by rigg while speaking of national hymns lie he took occasion to to draw a I 1 marked contrast between our 0 own wil hymn and the national song of france tho the one fuh of tender sentiments of the big broad land of freedom breeding a spirit of peace and ana contentment the other an appeal to populace to for riot bloodshed and anarchy the speaker took severely to 0 o task modern church music and said some unkind things of the modern choir As lie he a morning service in a church of kentucky with nith its new organ and new ideas of how hour the lord should be praised in ili ong kong the audience took his remarks in good humor and fro frequently applauded as he struck the heart of hypocrisies that are arc practiced I 1 by choirs this being equally as true in the west a as in ili kentucky the I 1 I 1 existing in ili a church service s er I 1 through lack of a proper ampre appreciation I 1 of the fitness ol 01 of f t things ho he said was doing much to lo malte mahe we the modern plods p I 1 church a place of unnatural tiemon I 1 and mock ceremony |