The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-08

dulging in 1t amid better opportunities.
The Bible says so much about the music
of heaven that am certain 1t Is not hg-
urative. Why all that talk about halle
Iujahs and chOirs and harps and trum-
pets and OrgansP Over and over and
over again the Bible speaks of the songs |
of heaven. Why, if heaven had no songs |
of it's own, a vast number of songs |
would have been taken up by the |
celestial emigrants. Christians do not |
lose their memory at death. There are |
millions of them before the throne who |
remember Coronation, and Old Hundred |
and Antioch. If heaven got out of
music, Lowell Mason and Thomas Hast |
| ings and others could start up hundreds
of grand old choirs. But what with the
new song that John speaks of, and the
various dOXOlOgies referred to, and all
the importation of sublunary harmOnles
| the people who die, liking music, Will
| find there abundance of regalement.
Because their voice is still in death, and
| their ear has become deaf in dissolution,
is no reason to think that the souls
capacity to make or catch sweet sounds
has vanished. Can the spirits sing!
We often compliment some singer by
saying, There is so much soul in her
song" In heaven it will be all soul till
the body comes up in the resurrection,
and that will be an additional heaven.
Surely the soul can hear. No one doubts
that. Well, if the soul can hear, can 1T
not hear music? Do not, as in some
households, when member departs for
heaven keep the piano closed or the
harp unstrung for two years, because
the fingers that played on 1T are still.
The departed soul has better lnstru-
ments. Will there be real harps, and
real trumpets, and real organs for the
resurrected body at last to play on and
the resuTrected ear to hearP l do not
know, but l should not wonder II the
God who owns all the forests and
metals of earth, and all the groWths OF
the universe, could, II He desired, ind
wood and metal enough to make real
harps, and trumpets, and organs. Old
and sick Haydn, the composer, was car
? ried for the last time into great nall
to hear his own OratOriO OF the "Crea-
ton" At the passage: Let there be
light" the audience rose and cheered,
and Haydn waved his hand toward
{ heaven and cried: "It comes from
1 there" Overpowered by his own music
5 he was carried out in his chair, turning
1 to the orchestra and spreading his hanC
t toward them as in benedictiOn. Haydn
!. was right when, waving his hand to
t ward heaven, he said: 1T comes from
a there" Music, born in heaven, will
Q ever have her highest throne there
g | Your departed Christian friends, so fOnC
u
g of harmony. 1t seems to me that al
n the old church tunes mnst be in heaven
r. They were good old tunes, and wheI
l. they died they could not have been ban
3 ished to peTditiOn, and so they must hayt
y gone up into the corridors of alabaste
y and Lebanon cedar.
Il Again. remark that those of your de
IF parted Christian friends in whom tht
It military spirit was dominant are in {
1t higher army and out on blOOdless battle
v There are hundreds Of men born soldiers
It The military spirit in them was God
q implanted. They cannot keep still a
70 the sound of drum and fife. They art
IS Christians, and when they fight they
10 fight on the right side. When such {
II man dies there is place for him in th(
10 celestial regiment. l suppose in Ont
It hour such men are enlisted in some
A great campaign. They volunteer righ
v away. Heaven must have soldiers will
d soldierly spirit. There are parade day
q in heaven when the King reviews hi
70 troops. There must be armed escorts
Il sent out to accompany those from eartl
l. who were more than cOnquerOrs" al
y they come through the gates. There
n are great crusades Citing out for al
n parts of Gods universe. There ART
Il angels of evil to be fought down, anC
l. rebelliOus worlds to be conquered
n worlds to be saved, and worlds to be de-
It mOlished. Yea, there are battles to b.
r fought in this world for the righ
q against the wrong. in which the heaven
l. ly military must mingle. That gives III
Christian reformers so much courage
II The churches are few against so man!
n grOg-shOps, the good men few agains
W the bad, the pure printing presses few
lc as against the polluted; while the aTmie
IS of evil are mightier than the armies o
le the church militant. The air is fillet
ID with cohorts fighting on our side. M
D. faith is not so much in the army on tn
l. ground as the army in the air. Perhap
|? they come this way to fight for us ant
X drive back sin and impenitence ant
Jy Satan from all our hearts. YOnder the
re areI COmingl COmingi
pI But what are the mathematician9, VIII
5e find their chief joy in figures, and t
Ds whom Euclid was more than John Mil
N ton, doing nowp Why, they are busy a
le figures. No place like heaven for figures
le Infinite numbers, infinite distances, in
p finite calculations, arithmetics, alge
le bras, geOmetries and trigonOmetries
ct all eternityl What surveying of field
by of spacel What diameters, what Gil
Id conferences, what triangles, what qua
re ternions, what epicyeles, and parallel
le grams and comic seetionsi
a. See likewise the transported NETS
ell physicians are now in engaged in thei
Of favOrite study under the best possibl
le circumstances. On earth they studie
n the mind in the dull sheath of the body
n. Now they look at the mind unsheathe
of the sword outside the scabbard.
IN But what are our departed Christia
T. explorers doingp Exploring yet. Wit
es lightning lOcOmotion and vision micrt
ll scOpic and telescope continent at
at glance and world in circuit, plant
IT. tary system in a morning. Christia
lg Sir John Franklin no more trying
at disabled Erebus to find the North Pol
n, or Christian DeLOng trying to free til
Id bloekaded Jeannette from the ice, bI
I'D in the twinkling of an eye taken in I'll
Id once unsearchable. What are those d.
sd parted Christian friends doing who o
It, earth found their chief joy in study
IN Studying yet. Not few thousand boOl
as on a few shelves, but all the volumes
es creation open before them. Geologi
a ornithologic, geologic, concholOgie, a
to tronOmic, philOsophic. No need of LIE.
ID den jars, or electric batteries, or voltai
nd piles, or apparatus, but face to face wit
lg the facts of the universe.
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