New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-03-29
THE SONG OLE LEE.

In Rev Mor0an d. DIR, D. D.. TRINITY Church, (P ~
At Trinity Church yesterday morning the
sermon WAS delivered b. the Rev. DR.. Morgan A. DIX
who took for his subject promise of life taught
by the coming OF Easter.
We told the preacher said, in OF the oldest OF
sacred writings, that when the Almighty laid the
foundations of this Garth, the morning stars to-
getler and all the sons GJt shouted for Joy. What
ever that anthem was, the sound thereof must have
been as glorious that of psalm of tho life,
ing from the Lord aud given ia freshness to the
Garth and to Yet early did tic sound cease !;
even 20 its echoes did it de away. The song
was checked {; the voice OF joy mute.
TIE notes of Rladness hushed the years OF
row and spiritual dearth began to And what do
we 10 hear beloved, a VIC listen Z You will hear the
ancient ana inevitable dlrgc Of mOrtatY aud together
Win IL tne song Oh me- As Ior the hr5l our et' are
familiar with 1t, That dreary cantce of sin and
death. of gait aud puDishment that terrible epic o.
the centuries all fun Of PAM gIef, war, blood aud de-
strucOn. But for the latter the song of Life 1t is
also win Us all DAYS; Is IN the hearts OF men. deep
down, sI small voice. telling, in sweet strains or
hope aud light AMI immortality. Seldom does 1t make
form IN full strength, Irresistible, IL would
fam iii heaven aud earth with It's glorious sound.
Tnere is something profoundly affecting in that song Of
life which We mOrtas are permitted To sing. Our song
IL made up OF harmOnies and discoris tOG thar; IT IL
song OF lie on the lips Of those vino must die; n
faitn, because We caunUt see clearly; song OF
hope, because yet ia ribuatIon. 1t Is not the
forth by thoughtful and serious men, rolled 10 the skies
OF Night and WINTER the speech of those who gave
the land OF deeper shadows than any that yet have
IL Is no wild. triumphant strain, full oil boasts
and pride; il is hymn OF patience ana trust OF love
aud PAM OF earnest religion prdetced 10y pilgrims and
soldiers.
OF fall. The by OF Tho dying, IL DegaI. its
strange. peculiar beauty, in the hour which
knew that they must die II began then because the
promise then; because at tue very moment when
they FELL Cod in bis mercy. spoke 10 them the word
wniG.: permitted them to nope Ecr since, men have
had Ig Int in their ings and some knd Of In
their hears God, their laKer, Ye them song IN the
night. Thcy di:d ia fatD, not having s%ceiVed tue
promises, but seeing tlem afar of. They nau Joy
III tbeir hearts. the fruit OF the conviction
that though die and depart yeJ all live unto God,
and that az some future time the thing would be made
plain And 1t has come to pass For the holy gar
Gen which contained JOsepbs tomb. ana ON the
ing OF tue INST Easier day. ana as inc sun arose upon
quick hal been waiting 10 hear-tbe full strong melO
dIes of Song of Life Christ is the dead
and the fret frnits or them that slept. For
by man came DEATH by came also the
rcctiOn OF the dead. For III Adam all Tie.
PROMISE which all have heard, wnicn all the
Las heard, which all tue souls III tbs place OF departed
spirits have heard which the old buried dust OF men
can almost hear. scarce consenting TO lie still
Aud ever since tnat day men sing tnolr psalm OF life
with all conf ience with little or no lear. WHAT would
TINS world 30 TO U.s. what could 1t give u.s. what peace
could have Ii H. what pleasure could find In IL.
without the belief III our lnmortIy and the
that there better Things than these an another
after tnls Is donei Yet IL Is 10 the risen and Rored
savior mat that falth. that nope. That
aDce Not one vesise OF nope c0uli We nave had with
out HIM; not QUO note Of psalm OF song
ticie OF gladness could We ever have sung
had we not learned that music from Him.
The whole Christian world Is singing Today, and
IN those parts OF the world whore Cnrst has
preached there vibration ia the hedrtsrngs OF tho
pagan and the neathen, caused by the motion OF the
bears around the world aud 10 every quarter Of
the heavens the dccp reyerDerdting cadence Of the
Christian Let tue melody roll ortn and onward
evelnore hung Us up ON wings OF sublime devotion,
taking all lingering fer of death. making US
long depart the beautiful world
cyobd, whicn Christ has opened 10 his people and
which e prepares Tue place for all VINO love and
Hun.