Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-05-03

preached 10 q large audience and all the
music they made together did not equal
one skylark! People do not sleep st q
coronation. Do not let MS sleep when We
come to Saviour crovning. In order
TO proper discharge of this duty let US
stand up save as age or weakness or fa.
tigue excuse us. Seated in an easy pew
We cannot do this duty half 30 we'll as
when, upright, we throw our whole body
into 1t. Let our song be like an acclsma-
ton of victory. You have right to sing.
Do not surrender your prerogative.
We want TO
ROUSE ALL OUR FAMILIES
upon this subject. We want each family
of our congregation to be a singing
school. Childish petulsnce, obduracy and
intractsbility would be soothed if we had
more singing in the household, aud then
our little ones would be prepared for the
great congregation on Sabbath day, their
voices uniting with our voices IN the
praises Of the Lord. After shower
there are scores of streams that come down
the mountain side with voices ripping and
silvery, pouring into one river, and then
rolling in united strength 10 the sea. So
would have all the families in my church
send forth the voice of prayer aud praise,
pouring it into the great tide Of public
worship that rolls on aud on to empty into
the great, wide heart OF God. Never can
we have our church sing as it ought until
our families sing as they ought.
There will be
GREAT REVOLUTION
on this subject in all our churches. God
will come down BY his sp rit and rouse up
the old hymns aud tunes that have not
been more than halt awake since the time
OF our grandisthers. The silent pews in
the church will break for;h into music
and when the conductor takes his place on
the Sabbath day, there will be great
host Of voices rushing into the
harmony. My Christian friends, il
we have NO taste for this
service on earth, what will we do in heaven
where they all sing and sing foreverY Let
me prophecy 10 regard to any one here
who has no delight 10 the worship OF
heaven, if you do not sing the praises OF
God on earth | do not believe you will
ever sing them in glory. ] would that our
singing to-day might be like the Saturday
night rehearsal for the Sabbath morning
in the skies, aud might begin now by the
strength and by the hel p OF God 10 dis.
charge duty which none OF have fully
performed.
"Lct those refuse TO sing
Sho never knew ouT sod;
But children OF the Heavenly kiIg
Saoud SPEAK tleir Joys abroad.
"The hill OF Zion yields
A thousand sgCIed Sweah,
Before we reach the he ,Venly helds
Or wAlE the gold n streets,
Then let ouI songs abound,
And eYerC tear De dry;
We're marching through Emanueis ground
To iarer worli's on high"
Come nov, clear your throats Gnd get |
ready for this duty or you will never hear
the end Of this. never shall forget hear
ing Frenchmau singing the Marseilles
Hymn on the Champ EIVsees, Paris, just
before the battle OF Sedan. never saw
such enthusiasm before or since, as he
sang that national air. Oh, low the |
Frenchmen shouted. Esvo Jou ever in
an an EnEli8h asssmblage heard band
play God Save the Queen" If you have
you know something about the enthusiasm
Of a nstionsl air. Now, tell you that /
these songs We sing Sabbath by Sabbath |
are the national airs o! Jesus Christ and OF
the kingdom of heaven. When Cromwells
army went into battle he stood at the head !
Of them one day and gave out the long
metre doxolopy to the tune OF Old Hun
ir4d," and that great host, company by
regiment by regiment, battalion
BY battalion, joined in ,he doxology:
"rraiso God IRON whom all bls'iuR. fow,
Praise Him all creatu es here below
Praise Him above. ye heavenly hoSI,
Prai Father, sen and Holy Ghost
And while they sang they marched and
While they marched they fought aud while /
hey fought they got the victory. q men
md women Of Jeaus Christ, let US 90 into
III our coaicts singing the praisea OF God,
md then instead Of falling back, as We
,tten do, from defeat 10 defeat, we will be
narcbisg on from victory to victory