CHAPTER XIX..

ENERGY OF UPLIFT.

IN this form we have more noticeable emotion mingled with the energy. It represents the Stimulus of ennobling thought, together with the sense of insistent or cumulative force. It is adapted to the utterance of any sentiment that elevates and fills the speaker's soul, and at the same time seeks to impress and move the soul of the listener. Without this element of insistence, it would be simply emotional; with this it becomes a buoyant pressure, or an elevated impulse, originating in the speaker's conception of the noble, but seeking to make the listener realize the same and act upon it.

Four types can be clearly distinguished:

1. Encouragement, or stimulation to something good and noble.

EXAMPLES.-Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.- -1 Cor. xv. 58. Hold fast that which thou hast, that no one take thy crown.—Rev. iii. II.

Praise ye the Lord; for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely.

The Lord doth build up Jerusalem: He gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.

He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.

He telleth the number of the stars: he giveth them all their names. -Ps. cxlvii. 1-4.

Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.

For, behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people; but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.

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And nations shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.

Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: they all gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side.

Then thou shalt see, and be lightened, and thine heart shall tremble and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be turned unto thee, the wealth of the nations shall come unto thee.-Isa. lx. 1–5.

Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State,
Sail on, O Union, strong and great.

2. Adoration, with purpose to uplift the listener into the same state.

EXAMPLES.

Ye living flowers that skirt th' eternal frost!
Ye wild goats, sporting 'round the eagle's nest!
Ye eagles, playmates of the mountain storm!
Ye lightnings, the dread arrows of the clouds!
Ye signs and wonders of the elements!
Utter forth "God!" and fill the hills with praise!

Thou kingly Spirit throned among the hills,
Thou dread ambassador from earth to heaven,
Great hierarch! tell thou the silent sky,
And tell the stars, and tell yon rising sun,

Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.

-Coleridge.

How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of Hosts!

My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord; my

heart and my flesh cry out unto the living God.

Yea, the sparrow hath found her an house, and the swallow a nest

for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O Lord of Hosts, my King, and my God.—Ps. lxxxiv. 1-3.

The Lord reigneth; he is apparelled with majesty ;

The Lord is apparelled, he hath girded himself with strength:

The world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.

Thy throne is established of old:

Thou art from everlasting.

The floods have lifted up, O Lord,

The floods have lifted up their voice;
The floods lift up their waves.
Above the voices of many waters,
The mighty breakers of the sea,
The Lord on high is mighty.
Thy testimonies are very sure:
Holiness becometh thine house,

O Lord, for evermore.-Ps. xciii. 1-5.

3. Admiration, joined with the purpose to make others admire.

EXAMPLES.-How beautiful she is! how fair

She lies within those arms, that press
Her form with many a soft caress
Of tenderness and watchful care.

For even then, Sir, even before this splendid orb was entirely set, and while the western horizon was in a blaze with his descending glory, on the opposite quarter of the heavens arose another luminary, and, for his hour, became lord of the ascendant. And I did

see in that noble person such sound principles, such an enlargement of

mind, such clear and sagacious sense, and such unshaken fortitude, as have bound me, as well as others much better than me, by an inviolable attachment to him from that time forward. I stood near him; and his face, to use the expression of the Scripture of the first martyr-his face was as if it had been the face of an angel. I do not know how others feel; but if I had stood in that situation, I never would have exchanged it for all that kings in their profusion could bestow. I did hope that that day's danger and honor would have been a bond to hold us all together forever.-Burke.

4. Foy or Exultation, with the purpose to lead others to rejoice.

EXAMPLES.-Sing aloud unto God our strength:

Make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob,
Take up a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel,
The pleasant harp with the psaltery.

Blow up the trumpet in the new moon,

At the full moon on our solemn feast day.-Ps. lxxxi. 1-3.

O, sing unto the Lord a new song:

Sing unto the Lord, all the earth.

Sing unto the Lord, bless his name;

Show forth his salvation from day to day.

Declare his glory among the nations,

His marvelous works among all peoples.

For great is the Lord, and highly to be praised:

He is to be feared above all gods.

For all the gods of the peoples are idols :

But the Lord made the heavens.

Honor and majesty are before him :

Strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.-Ps. xcvi. 1-6. Ho! gallant nobles of the League, look that your arms be bright! Ho! burghers of St. Genevieve, keep watch and ward to-night! For our God hath crushed the tyrant, our God hath raised the slave, And mocked the counsel of the wise and the valor of the brave. Then glory to his holy name, from whom all glories are; And glory to our sovereign lord, King Henry of Navarre,

-Macaulay.

Banners and badges, processions and flags, announce to us, that amidst this uncounted throng are thousands of natives of New England now residents in other States. Welcome, ye kindred names, with kindred blood! From the broad savannas of the South, from the newer regions of the West, from amidst the hundreds of thousands of men of Eastern origin who cultivate the rich valley of the Genesee or live along the chain of the Lakes, from the mountains of Pennsylvania, and from the thronged cities of the coast, welcome, welcome! Wherever else you may be strangers, here you are all at home. You assemble at this shrine of liberty, near the family altars at which your earliest devotions were paid to heaven, near to the temples of worship. first entered by you, and near to the schools and colleges in which your education was received. You come here with a glorious ancestry of liberty. You bring names which are on the rolls of Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill.

But if family associations and the recollections of the past bring you hither with greater alacrity, and mingle with your greeting much of local attachment and private affection, greeting also be given, free and hearty greeting, to every American citizen who treads this sacred soil with patriotic feeling, and respires with pleasure in an atmosphere perfumed with the recollections of 1775! This occasion is respectable, nay, it is grand, it is sublime, by the nationality of its sentiment. Among the seventeen millions of happy people who form the American community, there is not one that has not a deep and abiding interest in that which it commemorates.-Webster.

The vocal expression for this form of energy is the Median Stress (<>), expressing, generically, a "swell," usually accompanied by a slight rise and fall in the pitch, similar to the falling circumflex, but not heard as inflection.

Study the swell with pure tone, and allow the feelings. to be elevated with the increase of tone. Expansibility and fullness of voice are the means for the sion of this property.

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