A great pipe-organ has one or two thousand pipes. Some are
twenty feet long, and large enough for a man to stand in, others
are no bigger or longer than a common lead-pencil; some are made
of wood, some of zinc, some of lead; and every one is set to
make its own peculiar note. No pipe ever makes any other note
than its own. But the organist is not limited to one tune. He
can play any tune he may wish simply by changing the order of
the notes which he sounds.
The laws of God’s world are fixt; but on that great organ He
is master, and it obeys His will; and rest assured that He
it is that is playing the melody of your life.--JAMES M.
STIFLER, “The Fighting Saint.”
(1827)