Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-03-17

who assisted on thai, day will be there.
Patriarchs who lived amidst threshing-
floors, shepherds who watched amidst
Chaldcan hills, prophets who walked,
with long boards n coarse apparel, pro
nouncing woe against ancient abomina-
TONS, will meet the more recent martyrs
who went up with 'eaping cohorts of tire.
and som will speak Of the Jesus of
whom they prophesied, and others of the
Jesus fur whom they died. Oh. what a
song, 1t came to John upon Patmos; it
came TO Calvin in the prison; il dropped
to John Knox in the fire; and sometimes
that song has come TO your ear, perhaps,
for | really DO think it sometimes breaks
over the battlemHnts of heaven.
A Christian woman, the wife of a min
lister OF the Gospel. was dying in the par
sonage near the Old church. where on Sat
urday night the choir used to assemble
and rehoarsc for the folio .ing Sabbath.
and she said, How strangely sweet the
choir rehcarscs tonight; they have been
rchearsing there for an hour" No
said some one about her. 'thc choir is not
rehearsing tonight" Yes she said.
II know they are, | hear them sing; how
very swcetly they sing Now it was not
a choir of earth that she heard, but the
choir OF heaven. / think that Jesus some.
times sets aiar the door of heaven. and "a
passage Of that rapture grcets Our ears.
The MINISTRIES OF heaven strike such "A tire
mcndoGa strain, the walls Of jasper cGA
not Lo.l it.
+ VIC Will BE slNGEGS.
wonder. will YOU sing that song?
VIII ! sing it? Not unless our sins are
pardontd. aud we learn now to sing the
praise Of Christ, will we ever singit there.
The first great concert that ! ever attend.
ed was in New York. when Julien. in the
Crystal Paiace." stood before hundreds
Of singers and hundreds Of players upon
instruments. Some OF YOU may rcmem-
Der that occasion; il was the first one of
the Kind at which ! was present. and |
shall never forget il. saw that one man
standing, and with hand and foot WELD
that great harmony, beating the time. II
was to me Overwhelming. But Oh. he
gr2ndcr scene when tbcy shall come from
the east and from the west and from the
north and from the south, "a great mul
tItudc that no man can rumher.' into
the temple OF the skies. host bcyOnd host.
rank beyond rank, gallery above gallery,
and Jesus shall stand before that great
host to conduct the harmony with his
wounded hands and his wounded foot,
Like the voice of many waters. like the
voice Of mighty thundcrings, they Shall
cry, WORTHY is the lamb that was slain
10 receive blessings, and riches. and hon
or, and glory, and power, world without
end. Amen and amen uh. If my ear
shall hear 10 other sweet sounds, may |
hear that. If | join no other glad Assem-
blage may J join that,
O UNTO Us.
was reading of the battle Of Agin-
court, in which Henry V. figured; and it
Is said after the battle was won. glor-
iOusly won. the king wanted 10 acknOwl-
edge the divine interposition, and he or
dered the chaplain 70 read the Psalm of
David; aud when he came to the word,
"Not unto us, o. Lord. hut unto Thy
name be the praise the king ~dismounted
and AL the cavalry dismounted. and all
the great host, officers and men, threw
themselves on their faces. oh. at the
story Of the Sayi0r's love and the |savior's
deliycrancr, shall We not PROSTATE our-
selves before him now, hosts Of earth and
hosts Of heaven, falling upon our faces
and crying. Not unto us. not unto Us.
but unto Thy name be the glory