Smyrna times., 1882-08-16
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Music in Heaven.

l remark again, that all our departed
Christian friends who in this world
were passionately fond of music are
still regaling that taste in the world
celestial. The Bible says so much
about the music of Heaven that it can
not all be figurative. Why all this
talk about hallelujahs and choirs on
the glass and trumpets and harps and
Oratories seemingly, and organs? The
Bible over and over speaks of the
songs of Heaven. If Heaven had no
songs of its own a vast number of
those on earth would have been taken
up by the earthly emigrants. Surely
the Christian at death does not lose
his memory. Then there must be
millions of souls in Heaven who know
Coronation" and "Antioch" and
"Mount Pisgah" and cold Hundred"
The leader of the orchestra need only
once tap his baton and all Heaven will
be ready for the hallelujah. If Heaven
should ever get out of music, Thomas
Hastings and Lowell, Mason and Brad
bury would start up hundred old
magnificent chorals. But what with
the new song that John mentions, and
the various dOXologies alluded to, and
the importation of sub-lunar harmonies,
Il Christian fond of music, dying, will
have an abundance of regalement.
What though the voice be gone in
death, what though the ear be fallen in
dissolution, are you therefore to con-
clude that the spirit will have no power
to make or catch sweet sounds? Can
not the soul sing? How often we
compliment some exquisite singing by
saying, "There was so much soul in
her music" In Heaven it will be all
soul until body after awhile comes up
in the resurrection, and then there will
be an additional Heaven. Cannot the
soul hear? If it can hear, then it can
hear music. Do not, therefore, let it
be in your household when some mem
Der leaves for Heaven, as it is in some
households, that you close the piano
and unstring the harp for two years
because the fingers that used to play
on them are still. You must remem
ber that they have better instrument:
of music where they are. You ask
, me, Do they have real harps an(
real trumpets and real organs? | dc
, not know. Some wiseacres say posi-
, lively there are no such things il
Heaven. do not know, but shoult
. not be surprised if the God who mad
, all the mountains, and all the hills
p and all the forests, and all the mortal
y of the earth, and all the growth of tn
universe, l should not be surprised
He could, if he had a mind to, make
y few harps and trumpets and organs
! Grand old Haydn, sick and worn out
was carried for the last time into tn
:, music hall there he heard his orator.
n of the Creation" History says tha
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; passage, Let there be light !" tn
7 whole audience rose and cheered, an
- Haydn waved his hand toward Heave
, and said, "It comes from there
Overwhelmed with his own music,
=, was carried out in his chair, and as /
. came to the door he spread his han
- toward the orchestra as in benedictiol
! Haydn was right when he waved Ii
+, hand toward Heaven and said, 81
. comes from there" Music was boz
= in Heaven, and it will ever have il
:, highest throne in Heaven, and wal
: you to understand that our departC
\ friends who were passionately fond
y music here are now at the headquarte
:, of harmony. l think that the graz
: old church tunes that died when yol
grandfathers died have gone wi
them to Heaven. When those tun,
- died they did not stay on earth, ~
they could not have been vanished
perditiOn, and so l think they must
: in the corridors of alabaster an
;. Lebanon cedar.-Dr. TdImGge, IN Fra,
: LesIie's Sunday Magazine for Septembe
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