"HARMONY"-- JAMES HASTINGS

                                                 HARMONY

                     There is harmony in music because in music

                       there is no self will. Music is built on law.

                    Man did not make this law; he has simply

                       discovered it. If he breaks it the music ceases.

                   Each Hayden and Hadel is as much bound by it

                      as each amateur. The same is true of man's

                  relation to his every act. Find out its principles,

                      and all the genius of that art is yours. But

                 disobey its principles; try to excell in any other

                      way than by conformity to its nature, and all

                 that art contends against you, and balks you at

                      every step. We cannot change ocean current

                 or tide, but we can build our ship and stretch

                     out our sail, and by adapting as to wind

                and wave we can gain any Liverpool or Queenstown.

                     We cannot conquer lightning. Obedience

               pulls the sting out of lightning and makes it harmless.

                    Fire is a bad master, but a good servant.

               So it is in the spiritual life. If we obey the law

                    of God, we have "rest and peace in the

               beloved"

James Hastings 

  What a great blessing it is , to know that one can know and walk in the law of God with the same sureness that the true musician by following the law of music can play or sing a song.

Byrl Brockman