The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-04-10

newly arrived soul says "Sing saliva
tion" and after awhile an earthly des-
potism falls, and a scepter of iniqnity is
snapped, and churches are built where
once were superstititious mosques, and
angel cries to angel, How shall we cele.
brate this vctory2" And angel cries to
angel, Let is sing" And after while
the church on earth will rush into the
ouispread arms of the church ofheaven,
and while the righteous are ascending
and the world Ia burning, and all things
are being wound up, the question will he
ask ed, What shall we sing2" ard there
will be great voice that will responds;
"Sing salvation |" In this world we
have paintive songs, tremulous with
sorrow; but in heaven there will be no
sighirg nf win's, no cries Of anguish, no
weeping symphony. The tamest song
will be halelujah, the dullest tune tri-
umphal march, Joy amorg the cheru-
BIN; JOY among the seraphim; joy among
the rsnsomed; Joy forever On earth
the music In churches is often poor, r.
cause there Is no interest in it, or be.
cause there is no harmony. Some won d
not sing, some could not, some were too
high, some too low, some sang by fits
and starts; but in the great audience of
the redeemed on high, all voices will be
aCCordant, and the man who on earth
could not tell plaintive melody from
the dead March in SAUL" will lift an
anthem that the Mendelss5hns and Bee.
thovens aud the Shumans of earth never
imagined; and you may stand through
all eternity and listen, and there will not
be one discord in that great anthem that
forever rolls up against the great heart
of God. 1t will not be a solo; not duet
nor a quintet, but an innumerable host
before the throne, crying: Salvation
unto our God and unto the Lamb"
crowd all the temples; they bend over
the battlements; they fill the heights
and depths, and lengths and breadths of
heaven with their hosannas.
When people were taken into the tenn
Pile of Diana, it was such brilliant room
that they were always put on their guard
Some people had lost their sight by Just
looking on the brillianCy of that room,
and 80 the janitor, when he brought
stranger to the door and let him in,
would always charge him: Take heed
of your eyes" Oh, when | think of the
song that goes up around the throne Of
God, so jubilant, many voiced, multidu-
dinous, | feel like saying: Take heed Of
your ears" 1t is so loud. They sing a
rock song, saying: "Who is he that shell
tered us in the wilderness, and shadowed
lls in a weary land?' Aud the chorus
came in, Christ, the shadow of rock
in a weary land" They sang star
song, say ing: who is He that guides us
through the thick night, and, when all
other lights went out, arose in the sky
the morning star, pouring light on the
souls darkness2" And the chorus will
come in: Christ, the morning star, shin
ilg on the worlds darkness" They sing
water song, saying: who is He that
cleaned to us from the frowning Crsg,
and lightered the darkest ravine of
trouble, aud brought cooling to the tenn
Piles and refreshment to the lip, and was
a fountain in the midst Of the wilder
ness2" And then the chorus will come
in: "Christ, the fountain in the midst of
the wilderness"
My friends, will you join that anthem?
Shall we make rehearsal this morning?
If we cannot sing that song on earth, we
will not be ableto sing it in heaven. Can
it be that our good friends in thai lard
will go through that great throng that |
speak of, looking for us and not finding
us? Will they come down to the gate
and ask if we have passed through, and
not find us reported as having came?
Will they look through the folios of eter-
nal light and find our names unrecord
ed? Is all this a representation of land
we shall never see-of song we never
shall sing?