Luther Register. (Luther, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 7, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, December 29, 1905 Page: 4 of 14
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Thousands of Centuries ReEcho
in the Blowing of Horns ToDay
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Blowing of horns on occasions of
joy and festivity has grown to be an
established institution in the United
Statez 'Whether the custom as prae-
ticed is strictly in musical accord with
the harmonious feelings of a people
who in one voice indulge a celebration
which affects all alike is another mat-
ter While the custom of horn blowing
Is growing few of the old heads stop
to think of its origin and the youth-
ful celebrant little dreams that it is
all tradition that in those reveling
Founds which escape neither nook nor
corner loft nor cellar are the echoes
re-echoed from thousands of centuries
ngo—that momentous period in the
world's spiritual Anti Material history
when the blasts from the rani 's horn
( sliophar) proelaimed from Alount
Sinai the giving of the Ten Command-
: ments to the end of time -
The first mention of it is in the Old
Testament at the giving of the law:
's And all the people saw the thunderings
and the Inzlitnings and the noise of the
ryinpet—Extattia
how well one can pietnre the scene
at Mount Sinai Oen the people trent-
ble(t and stood afar oft when Moses
bade'them to fear not that God had
come to prove them and that his fear
might be before their faces that they
in not
The sounding of the horn on an oe-
casion prolific with divinely poten-
ial incidents naturally brought the in-
Ftrument into use and prominence
(luring special spiritual exercises and
celebrations but later Its brazen notes
were heard in time of war
They were also heard in times of
xtreme jubilation and in the temples
of the Jews on their days of rejoicing
and on the day of atonement
In Leviticus xxv: ft is found the
following:
Then shalt thou came the trumoa
the Julditl Iry sound on the tenth thy of
the sevtnth month in the dA t itune
ment shall :ye make the trump( t Nowa
'Ithroughtnit nil your land
And evfn in this age of "advanced
thought" filo Jew following cotn-
rtandment and the voice Of tradition
assembles in his temple to bear the
sound from the sholhar
What effect notSt ElIC11 tones issuing
from a holy place have upon the
hearer? They are not musical Founds
for their loud piercing notes with no
range or compass have never been
found adaptable to concerted music
In Numbers chapter xxxix: I we
find an injunction ns to the use of the
tru M pc t
Therein tho people are commanded
on the first (ley of the seventir month
to hold "an toly convocation" to do
Do servile work tt being Na day of
blowing of trumPets unto yOu"--a
feast of the trumpets
Here is demonstrated the giving up
of all labor and indulging the tones of
the shorbar as heard in the syna-
gogues to this day on a like festival
The skeptic may say that to-day's
outpourings of joy lack thought are
indulged without the slightest religious
sentiment have no relationship with
the very same movements and same
trumpetings that characterized the
day Avlien the law was given from
Mount Sinai those periods when joy
and victory and holy festival- influ-
enced the early peoples of the earth
Who will say that there is no feeling
of thankfulness in the hearts of the
nation when with horn a-blowing
and flags waving it gives vent to Its
joy over victory or any great national
event?
The ancient New Year's service oh-
served in the synagogues even at this
period is considered one of the most
Impressive in the Jewish liturgy It is
composed of three parts which refer
respectively to the sovereignty jus-
tice and mercy Of Cod and as each
part is concluded the shophar
sounded from the pulpit
The first part "Malchioth" pro-
claims Cod the universal king
The second part "Zichronoth" em-
phasizes that Cod remembert the
work of the world and visits all creat-
ures and that "nothing remains con-
cealed from his cycit"
The last part "Shopheroth" Freaks
of the scriptural shophar and espe-
cially as it is connected with the giv-
ing of the law on Mount Sinai when
its tones were first heard and also
with reference to the time when the
"great trumpet" will be sounded "to
declare the universal triumph of lib-
erty and religion"
In a poem sermon founded on pas-
sages fromthe Tatmund by the Hey
Is Pore MyiTs 11 A In Montreal In
1897 (577 Jewish year) the
Ing occurs:
What solton tholights tach tiast corn-
4‘t cvcry tir 16som swt
()lir i st r1 iy 1v01 y hote
That isuus from I he shephilr's throit
'rite rovt which tdcblorh" Ii nnreed
lit ei hich (it m sovcreIgntym procbtiniud
cmonononoritom H ratl
p"114 te mina
Nvh11 crotting out of nought
Thls uor hi into exisroneo
universe tV wis'1ro nned
An1 framett by Ilk Vntighty hand
he4e ortor licaut: harmony
‘Ve everywhere con clalnly moo:
bome every 1art berow iiIovp
The imprusm twat's' of gracious' low
The shophar'm volve dee4 first recoil
The coronation of the Lord
Thus from its first mention up to
the present period has tbe sh(That
been given the most profound and
grave consideration
Besides the sounding of the horn In
the hour of religious and joyous festi-
val it was brought Into use in time of
war to FUMMOU and assemble the
army and in this respect it Is first
mentioned in Judges 111:27:
And it came to pass 'when he was come
that he blew a trumpet in the mountain
of Ephraim and the children of Israel
went (1011 with him from the mount
and he before them
Subsequent verses relate the defeat
of 10000 lusty men and the downfall
of Moab much resembling the bleahly
conflicts of later centuries sans ma-
chinery of modern warfare
And here we find the horn brought
Into military use which is a long' step
from its initial reeuirements when it
served to bring the people together to
bear the law read amid the thundering
and lightning and darkness which
after prevailed and filled the assem-
bled multitude with awe and fear
After all In comparing the past
with the present there seems but the
difference in the manufacture design
and manipulation of material and the
advantages in these times of having
more powerful and more scientific im-
plements with which to annihilate a
foe Indeed it is doubtful whether
anything could be more effective on a
modern battlefield than the slaying of
10000 valiant men as was done by the
Israelites who answered the shophar's
call to arms
The shopbar has been utilized in
other than times of law-giving and
war for It is told In Isaiah xxvii:13:
Anti it rhall come to pass in that day
that the great trumpet shall he blown
A lid thPY hhall CliMe Which were ready
to perish in the laud of Assyria and thi
outeasts in the land or Egypt and sh“li
worshin the Lord in the holy mount at
Icrusalem t
S0unilS were welcomed by those
to whom the law was handed down
its notes were and are maintained by
one denominatien to voice the anni-
versary of Gmrs coronation
By that same people its sound is re-
sorted to as an alarm or warning of
the approach of the day of atonement
and that they should review the :lc-
thins of the past year and prepare to
peeome reconciled to God by means of
confession to him of their sins and
promise of amendment
One other reason for the blowing
of the shophar even at this period
is to emphasize to the Jewish coin-
munity the conviction that the ti rm?
will come when the shophar will an
notince according to the word of the
prophet a tmiversal freedom when all
oppression and tyranny shall vanish
and the reign of absolute liberty will
be manifested throughout Cie world
IThe Swell Christmas
tt Rinneron the Yukon I
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In the winter of '03 at a brand new
mining camp on the Yukon there vvas
- a select society One dark afternoon
Just before Christmas with the mer-
cury standing below the zero mark at
some 20 odd and a bitter wind sweep-
ing down the river the host blew Into
the cozy office of the agent
"I want you to do two things for
me"
"All right" said the agent with
ready courtesy "what do you lack?"
"In the first place" said the host "I
want you to take Christmas dinner
with me"
"That's easy" said the agent
"In the second place I want you to
help M3 out with the dinner"
"Take the whole houSe if you want
it"
"No I don't quite want the house"
said the host "but I want that little
Frenchman your cook—what's his
name?"
"Louis Is yours" said the agent
"And I want a whole lot of other
things" said the host with a sigh
"I'm afraid I'm up against it hard"
"What's the game?" said the agent
"Well you see it's this way" sale
the host "I've Invited the governor
and his son and the general and his
wife and you and I make up the party
Further I have asked each guest to
choose some dish he would like for
dinner and however difficult I have
agreed to provide It"
"We'll I admire your nerve" said
the agent "you must Imagine that San
Francisco or New Orleans is Just
around the next bend In the river Do
you know what the word Yukon
means?"
"No" said the host despondently
"It means 'nothing to eat'"
"Before we go any further" said the
host entirely ignoring the agent's tri-
umph "what is yours?"
"Rum omelet" said the agent with-
out a moment's hesitation
"Hum!" mused the host "rum of
course but that means fresh eggs
with nothing but scrambled eggs in
the town Canned eggs won't omelet
I've tried 'cm"
"Biocide's got a hen" suggested the
agent "she roosts on the foot of his
bed to keep from freezing to death"
"Yes I know" said the host "but
she laid her last egg on the steamer
just before it reached town No hope
at all there"
"He's up against the real thing
now" sang the agent with delight
"By the way what did the others
choose?"
"To begin vvith the easiest the gov-
ernor's son wants some dish cooked in
the French fashion"
"Why not let Louis make a caribou
saute?" suggested the agent
"Just the thing"
"What next?"
"The general's wife wants fresh po-
tatoes No evaporated or granulated
spuds go"
"Cot any?" asked the host anxiously
"Frozen ones" said the agent
"Will they do boiled?"
"No mashed" said the agent "whip
'em up with a little butter and canned
cream sad then brown 'cm in the
oven"
"Bully" said the host lapsing into
the vernacular of the west and rub-
bing his hands together
"What does the governor want?"
asked the agent
"Marrow on toast" said the host du-
biously "Holy smoke!" exclaimed the agent
"Not a cow brute this side of Dawson
and that Is 775 miles up the Yukon
Better start an airship for Seattle at
once There are two horses in town
you might buy one and—hold on a
Tinute" as the dawn of an idea ap-
peared in his eyes "wait till I go out
end loolc on the roof of the cabin"
Ile stepped out of the door and re-
turned in a few moments looking mys-
teriously triumphant
"What's on the roof of your old
cabin?" said the host skeptically
The Event tiptoed dramatically up
to him put his hand to his mouth and
said in a loud stage whisper "Moose
shanks"
"What?" said the host
"Frozen moose bones full of mar-
row" explained the agent beaming
"You see I have bad several moose
barns this fall and as fast as the meat
was cut err Louis threw them on the
roof of the cabin intending to make
soup for the dogs Now what will bo
the does' loss will be the governor's
gain for those hones are full of mar-
row everyone of them" -
"Shake" void the Lost as he extend-
ed his right han
"Now let's see" said the agent mus-
ing "what's next? 0 yes the general
Bet yoe the drinks I know what he
wants lie wants booze"
"You're not so much" said the host
bushing "I guessed that myself
When I asked him be put the whole
proposition in as few words as possi-
hle: all he said was lashin's o' champagne'"
"That means plenty I suppose'
said the agent
"Of course got any?"
"I've some extra dry $75 a case"
replied the agent in his most business-
like tone
"Send up two cases"
"Now" said the host briskly "these
matters being settled how about
eggs?"
"There are the suicide's eggs" mur-
mured the agent
"What" said the host incredulously
"did that man who hanged himself
with a wire from a beam in his cabin
have fresh eggs?"
"Why didn't you know" said the
agent with surprise "it was brooding
on 18000 eggs that caused him to com-
mit suicide lie thought they were all
bad you see"
"But they weren't all bad only be
didn't find it out until after he Wag
dead" protested the agent with a grin
"I was a member of the coroner's jury
that sat on the case and when we in-
vestigated the effects of deceased we
found sixteen barrels of fresh eggs
worth $2 a dozen
"Let rue tell you what to do when
you go to buy your eggs" continued
the agent not noticing the interrup-
tion "Take a pocketful of money a
cold chisel and a hammer"
"What's all that for?" asked the
host with a show of interest
"Well you see the eggs are in lard
like holes in a cheese and the lard is
frozen solid as a rock The probat6
court has charge of the matter and
they sell the eggs for $2 a dozen in
the lard purchaser's risk You have
to get 'em out yourself If you get six
whole eggs out of a dozen you are a
dandy They won't let you use a
steam thawer because it would boil all
the eggs I want to tell you that the
probate court of this town is strictly
on to its job
"Is there anything else that you
want that you don't see?"
"Yes" replied the host "I want
roses They are my choice But in
latitude 64 degrees north and in the
dead of an Arctic winter one might
as well wish for a chunk of Polaris"
"0 I don't know" said the agent en-
couragingly "how would a dozen
'jacks' and a dozen American beauties
do with a few sprays of apple blos-
soms to lay on the table?"
"What's the use of trying to be
funny" said the host in an injured
tone "It's not in the least becoming"
The agent made no reply to this but
quietly stepped into the other room
and returned presently with a birch-
bark vase in each hand One contain-
ed a large bunch of magnificent jac-
queminots and the other an equally
handsome lot of American beauties
"Well I'll be—jiggered" said the
host catching himself just in time
"you could knock me down with a
feather"
"That's uhat they are" said the
agent complacently
"Spray a little perfume on 'em and
after about two of the generals 'lash-
in's' nobody could tell 'em" said the
agent
"Where did you get them?" asked
the host with interest
"0" said the agent who was inclin-
ed to be poetical "they fluttered down
from the wings of Aurora!"
"Fluttered down from the wings of
geese" replied the host who was not
In the least so
"Well they are goose feathers" ad-
mitte1 the agent reluctantly "but you
needn't be so disgustingly matter of
fact about it Besides I've got the ap-
ple blossoms upstairs in the store"
"I must be getting home" said the
host worming himself awkwardly into
his squirrel skin parkle "Dinner at 6
o'clock sharp and don't forget to send
up all the stuff including Louis the
marrow bones and the roses Good
night" and off he went—Samuel Hub-
bard Jr in Sunset Magazine
Mission of the Wise Mon
When the wise men came from the
East to found Christmas day they
cro mastered not by religious con-
servatism but by Christian expecta-
tion They were dominated not by
reason but by intuition—by the
genius represented in Job and in Da-
vid rather than by the calculation of
Jacob or the saws of Solomon This
world is saved not by profit-taking
merely but by prophet-giving A few
wise Inn from the East acting on in
sight created that glad epoch of de-
light In seltsacrilice which we car-
Christmas Pnlitics and worldly Wig
dom fought Christmas to the quick
but Christmas was conducted from
the upper air resounding with rhyth-
mic benedictions not only of peace
but of peace based on goo(' will
"Yule" Is Scandinavian
The word "Yule" has in reality
nothing to do with Christmas It is
an old Scandinavian word signifying
the winter solstice which was always
l(Pnt as a feast by the heathen Coati
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