St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-03

not have the music dull. With so many
thrilling things to sing about. away with all
drawing and stupidity. There is nothing
that makes me so nervous as to sit III a
pulpit and look on an audience with their
eyes three-fOurths closed and their lips al
most Shut mumbling the praises of God.
During my recent absence l preached to
large audience and all the music they made
together did not equal one skylark. People
do not sleep at coronation. DO not let
us sleep when we come to Savior's crown
ing. In order to proper discharge OF this
duty let us stand up, save as age or weak
ness or fatigue excuse us. Seated III an
easy pew we cannot do this duty half so
well as when, upright, we throw our whole
body into it. Let our song be like an &C
clamation 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 con-
gregation to bea singing school,
CHILDISH PETULANCE,
obduracy and intractability would be
soothed if we had more singing in the
household, and 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 a
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 to the
sea. So would have all the families in
my church send forth the voice of prayer
and praise, pouring it into the great tide of
public worship that rolls on and 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.
fThlrp will h1, oInti0 h
ject in all our churches. God will come
down by his spirit, and rouse up the old
hymns and tunes that have not been more
than half awake since the time of our
fathers. The silent pews in the church
will break forth into music, and when the
conductor takes his place on the Sabbath
day, there will be a great host of voices
rushing into the harmony. My Christian
friends, if we have no taste for this service
on earth, what will we do in Heaven where
they all sing and sing forever? Let me
prOphesy in regard to any one here who has
no delight in the worship of Heaven, if you
do not sing the praises of God on earth, l
do not believe you will ever sing them in
glory. l would that our singing to-day
might be like the
SATURDAY NIGHT REHEARSAL,
for the Sabbath morning in the skies, and
might begin now by the strength and by
the help of God to discharge duty which
none of us have fully performed.
''Let those refuse to sing
Who never knew our God;
But children of the heavenly king
Should speak their joys abroad
1.-THE hill of Zion yields
A thousand sacred sweets,
Before we reach the heavenly fields
Or walk the golden streets.
''Then let our songs abound
And every tear be dry;
We're marching through EmanuePs ground
To fairer worlds on high
Come now, clear your throats and get
ready for this duty or you will never hear
the end of this. l never shall forget hear
ing Frenchman singing the Marseiles
hymn ON the Champ Elysees, Paris, just
before the battle of Sedan. l never saw
such enthusiasm before or since, as he sang
that national air. Oh how the French
man shouted! Have you ever in an Eng
lish assemblage heard band play God
Save the Queen" If you have you know
something about the enthusiasm of a ma
tional air. Now, tell you that these
songs we sing Sabbath by Sabbath are the
national airs of Jesus Christ and of the
kingdom of heaven. When CromwelI's
army went into battle he stood at the head
of them one day and gave out the long
metre doxology to the tune of ''Old Hun
dred,' and that great host, company by
company, regiment by regiment, battalion
by battalion, Joined in the doxology:
Praise God from whom all blessings flow,
Praise Him all creatures here below,l
Praise Him above, We heavenly host,
Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost
AND while they sang they marched, and
while they marched they fought, and while
they fought they got the victory. o men
and women of Jesus Christ, let us go into
all our conflicts singing the praises of God,
and then, instead of falling back. as we
often do, from defeat to defeat, we will be
marching on from victory to victory!