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A few nights ago the architect of
this department went to hear a fa
mous vocal artist -whose fame is
worldwide. The audience was an en
thusiastic and fashionable one, for
"vsociety" was out in force, and peo
ple who pose as musicians were on
hand to add their applause.
Perhaps it was good singing. Un
doubtedly it was. The prima donna
was a marvelous expert in the hand
ling of a wonderful voice. But some
how or other there seemed to the
architect to be something lacking
an indefinable something without
which the whole seemed artificial.
While enraptured musicians sat
around and gasped, "wonderful,"
"marvelous," "artistic," and such like
words,, the architect couldn't work
himself up to the enthusiastic point.
Now what was it that was lacking?
The architect does not know, but to
him it seemed to be the "soul- quality."
Here is what the architect means:
A few weeks ago he stopped on a busi
ness corner and listened to the-sing-ing
of a band of Salvationists. There
was a lot of bass drum pounding and
tambourine shaking and other acces
sories used by the Salvation Army,
the result being something that was
attractive but far from musical. But
suddenly a sweet-faced little woman
stenned to tho frnnt wifv. n o..,
and playing her own accompaniment
sang
"Then I shall meet Him face to face,
And read the answer, 'Saved by
Grace.' "
And what was lacking in the great
prima donna's voice was found in the
voice of the Salvation Army woman
who stood upon the street corner and
sang her message of hope and love
and cheer into the ears of the casual
passersby.
Now, do you understand what the
architect is trying to say; what he
means when he says there was some
thing lacking in the great artist's
singing?
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Not long ago the architect went to
a big church to hear one of its chief
dignitaries preach. The preacher's
name is familiar throughout tho land.
He addressed a congregation that
filled the great auditorium to the point
of suffocation, but somehow or other
that sermon lacked the same thing
that the great singer's voice lacked.
Scholarly, logical and eloquent, the
sermon left one impressed with the
mental ability of the man in the pul
pit -and that was all.
That same day the architect went
to a little mission church in the
'pooror Quarters" nf Mm .
neard a workingman make a fifteen
minutes talk from the pulpit, the reg
ular pastor being absent. The work
ingman's schooling was practically all
acquired in the school of bitter ex
perience. He used the vernacular of
his craft, ho split his infinitives with
rockless abandon, used slang words
that would make the scholarly preach
er shudder, and his grammar was
enough to make the bones of Llndley
Murray ratttlo in their grave. But the
one thing lacking in the great church
dignitary's scholarly address was
found in the simple little talk of this
humble workingman. You heard the
church dignitary and remembered the
man; you heard the workingman and
remembered his message of hope and
cheer and Christian faith.
It is difficult to explain this sort
U
of thing, but dqubtless you will fead
lly grasp what the architect is try
ing to explain.
The architect of this department is
just old-fashioned enough to be op
posed to having a choir stuck away in
one corner of the church to do tho
singing. As a singer he is not a
great success, but when he goes to
church he wants everybody else to
sing so he can burst forth into song
without attracting undue attention.
Ever go to church, feeling at peace
with all the world and in love with
all of nature's works, and then have
it all knocked out of you by a salaried
quartet standing up all by itself and
singing some operatic air whose words
you could not understand and whose
music lacked all that you had been
taught to believe belonged to sacred
music? Here is a story that a trav
eling man told at a Y. M. C. A. meet
ing in a western city not many
months ago:
"I had Christian, parents and was
raised right. But like many another
boy I drifted away from my tea'cby
ing after I started in life for myself.
Through force of habit, however, I
usually attended church once a week.
This rule I kept up after I went on
the road as a salesman. I knew all
the time what my duty was, but I
kept saying, 'some more convenient
day.' I heard tho finest church sing'
ers in America, and while I appre
ciated the music it did not touch my
soul. One Sunday r missed connec
tions and was forced to spend the
day in a little junction town in Ne
braska. I went to church in the even
ing. The congregation was not large,
and the minister was not a great pul
pit orator. But he had a message and
he delivered it. There was no choir,
but everybody sang. The sermon
moved me deeply, but it was the
hymn of invitation that brought me
up with a round turn. It was sung
uy a congregation tnat was aroused
to religious fervor:
"Just as I am without one plea
But that Thy blood was shed for me;
And that Thou bidst me come to Thee,
O, Lamb of God, I come, I come.'
"Tho moment the song began I
was transported back a score of'
years, and again I was a boy at my
mother's knee. That was her favor
ite song. While the song was being
sung I recalled all of her good coun-
oei, -m ot ner sacrmces for her chil
dren, all of her simple, trusting faith
ZaiVd lxa3 overwhelmed with the
feeling that for years I had been miss
ing my opportunities and neglecting
my duty. That night I went forward,
put on the Christian armor, and I
am trying the best I know how to
live up to the standard set by the
Man of Gallilee of whom I learned
at my mother's knee. And it was
est Christian men and women, that
awoke me to a sense of my resnnn.
Bibility to myself and to God. Boys
a salaried choir wouldn't have jarred
mo loose from the old ways in a
thousand years."
Trans-Mississippi exposition was in
progress In Omaha. It was "Illinois
Day" at the exposition, and Governor
Tanner and staff and tho high ofil
cials of that great state were all
there to testify to the grandeur and
,the glory of Illinois. The Marine
Band from Washington, under direc
tion of Mr. Santleman, occupied the
great stage in the auditorium. Be
hind the band sat 500 members of
the Chicago MannechohY Grouped all
about were men in uniform, and the
auditorium was a mass of red, white
and blue decorations. Governor Tan
ner had just finished his address and
Major Clarkson was about to intro
duce another speaker, when a tele
gram was handed to him. It was a
bulletin from the front. Major Clark
son glanced at it, stepped forward and
raised his hand. Instantly the great
audience was hushed, and then he
read the bulletin. It announced the
landing of the American troops under
Shatter on the island of Cuba. Be
fore the audience could start a cheer
Director Santleman gave a signal, the
splendid band struck up "The Star
Spangled Banner," 'and those 500
trained singers took up the song.- Six
thousand patriotic Americans joined
in, hats and handkerchiefs waving,
tears streaming down faces, and flags
waving in an excess of fervor. All
the gold ever coined in the mints
could not have hired singers who
could have sung that national anthem
as it was sung on that occasion by
6,500 Americans who sang it because
they felt it.
At the dedication of the Gettysburg
battlefield there were. twdv orators.
Every schoolboy and schoolgirl" is" fa
miliar with the five minutes speech
delivered by one of them, for into
that little speech was poured the very
soul of the speaker. Abraham Lin
coln's speech on that occasion will
live as long as there are tongues to
talk and types to print from.' But
how many can recall the name of the
other orator or quote a sentence from
his address? Yet he spent weeks in
its preparation and made it the effort
of his life.
nnySimply can not Set the music
soul nr if ,SnSg Unless, you feel tne
soul of it, and you can't put soul into
anything unless you feel Jit. And
money does not, buy that sort of fee?-
In 1898 when the Spanish-American
war spirit was at its heTgW, the
Just draw this mental picture for
yourself: A white-haired old mother
sitting alone in the gloom of the even
ing, her children all gone out into
the great busy world, the friends of
her childhood either dead or far nwnv.
the sun of her life nearly set- just
picture this to yourself.- .Wouldn't
you rather hear that Christian old
mother singing . i-
"Nearer, my God, to- .Thee,- T -Nearer
to Thee; ' -.''
E'en though it be a cross .J. -That
raiseth me," ' ' Z
than to hear any prima donna that
ever lived singing a-classicarcompo-sition
of one of the "old masters' of
music?"
Some of these days the architect of
this department is going to put Into
execution a plan he has long had in
minda plan that is sure" to bring
him earthly riches. He fs going to
gather together a band of good slng-
ers and take them around over the
the country giving concerts. Not one
of your classic concerts devoted to
arias and that sort of thing. Not
much. He will give a program of the
old songs, "Suanee River," "Old Folks
at Home," "Massa's in the Cold, Cold
Ground," "Nearer, My God, to Thee,"
"Annie Laurie," "The Sword of
Bunker Hill," "Old Kentucky Home,"
"America," "Star Spangled Banner,"
"Refuge," "Baxter Street," "Corona
tion," and songs like these, ending
up with the "Doxology."
Honestly, now; wouldn't you rather
hear that concert than to listen to
some prima donna whose voice has
been trained until it work's like a
piece of machinery?
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