Show SATURDAY S p NIGHT s SERMONS 1 BY p n s THE GOSPEL OF SONG hixt singing and making melody lr IT ybur heart hearl unto tho the lord l ord Ephe blanE V 13 19 but in the bible there are I 1 dioio commands to sing than to pray raul tells us to admonish one another in psalms hymns and spiritual songs david cries out sing shig ye to god all ye kingdoms of the earth Fl fifteen feci and sixty prayers recorded ID fit the bible and 00 psalms and songs possibly that should be our proportion song Is the Ian language guage of worship and triumph even in sorrow and grief our song may be a minor chord clothed in sackcloth but when nhen hope triumphs the soul slugs sings in bold and major numbers not all forms of thought can sing law courts houses of legislation senatorial halls meetings of trusts do not begin nor end sessions with song a tacit admission perhaps that their business may be too low set for song some transactions hae no need for winos wings they belong to the dust of tho the earth but the love of man mail and maid make them sing the story of their hearts passion the harvesters sing amid the rustle of yellow loaf leaf and patter of falling grain rations nations sing when the people are thrilled with deep voiced patriotism and religion must sing or stifle christianity Is tuneful christianity Is naturally a singing religion I 1 often wonder that no artist has given us a picture of the standing up to lead the singing in that last hymn sung at the feast of the passo er immediately before the darkness anil and agony of gethsemane Gethsem anc the song of sacrifice no doubt the one hundred and eighteenth psalm paul and silas scourged urged and bleeding in dungeon made the midnight ring with their songs of praise till prison walls rocked and doors were loosed the volunteer soldier can sing but not the dratted drafted one christianity has developed a music of its own search heathen countries the ai horld orld over there Is to be found no such music christian experience awakens emotions that crave musical expression mere word energy Is not enough the words have to be touched into music A singing church Is a triumphant church you cannot defeat it poverty persecution martyrdom are forgotten in song cardinal newman said the reason methodism gained such enormous numbers to her told fold was because she knew how to sing many are won to christ through son song I 1 who c cannot annot be touched by preach preaching ln religion simply has to sing at the creation the morning stars sang to together ether at the saviours Savi ours birth the angel ange 1 sang to the shepherds christ sang on ills his way to death the early church sang under fire and sword infidelity Is mute there Is no hurch anywhere without music and song the infidel makes himself foolish trying try ins to account for it there is dithing lit in his philosophy to explain it Is infidel ity has nothing to sing about unbelief lias nothing to sing about no hope no joy no resurrection did you ever attend the sunday services of any of the liberal leagues in our cities I 1 have hare it Is funny no it Is pitiful still it Is reasonable enough the usher to whom I 1 spoke about the singing said rather savagely too why should we sing true enough I 1 thought why should they neither have I 1 ever beard of a hymnal or a confucian psalmody the meters of heathendom or savagery gery so far as act paganism is vocal at all tire are not cot to be compared with the be heartiness artiness fullness and depth of christian song there are a spontaneity and an abandon to the sing ingot christians that are sadly lacking in any of the musical exercises of paganism ancient jud judaism aastra said oh co come me let us sing unto the lord the modern christian explains his own songfu loess ir in the conclusive question ilow how can call I 1 keep from singing singing in heaven I 1 know no reason why the songs of earth may not be sung in heaven when WIlli william ant G fisher stood in my choir elide clide shortly ago I 1 looked at his fine old face and said some day you will lead a heavenly choir as we sing 1 I 1 love to tell the atory and when in scenes of glory I 1 sing the new new song twill be the old old story atory that I 1 have loved so long and well hear bear the sweet voice of florence nightingale and jennie lind wl ua ire n P sasuke Sa juke and robert lowery and cowper will sing then in a nobler sweeter strain ill sing bins thy power to save when this poor lisping stammering tongue lites lies silent in the grave and poor fanny crosby no longer blind will sing ftfe S afe in the arms of jesus and the nations will slug sing too the tenors 0 of england the deep full tones of the germans the sopranos of france and the contraltos altos of italy and the welsh every note a spark dropped from the forge of their burning emotions no race lias has the gift of song like the africans ive heard them in baltimore tini ore norfolk and many a southern camp meeting yes ethiopia will lift up tip her hands and sing that will be music for you the weird heartbreaking songs of the slave ship and cotton plantation mingled with the new song 0 of the free there will be a great multitude that no man can number in the celestial choir in that temple of the sides |