The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-03-06

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temples viii DO there. The forty thousand
naa1TP err that stood at the anciept deaicaton
assisted on that day will be there. Patriarchs
who lived amidst threshing-foors, Shepherds
who watched amidst Chaldean hills prophets
VINO walked. with long boards and coarse ap,,
pare, pronoun1cGing woe against ancient abomi-ll
nations, viii meet the more recent
martyrs who went up with leaping cohorts of,
hre; and some will speak of the Jesus for
whom they prophesied, and others of the Jesus
ior whom they died. oh, what song! 1t came
prison; it dropped to John Knox in the fire
end sometimes that song has come to your ear,
perhaps, for really do think it sometimes
pfeaSs over the battlenents Of heaven.
"A christian woman. the wife of a minister
% the gospel, was dying in the parsonage near
the old church, where on Saturday night tho
choir used to assemble and rehearse for the
following Sabbath, and she said, "How
strangely sweet the choir rehearses tonight;
s .My nave been rehearsing there for an hour"
not rehearsing tonight" "Yes,'' she said, "I
know they are, hear them sing: how yerv
sweetly they sing" Now, It was not the
CHOIR OF earth that she heard, but the choir Of
heaven. 1 think that Jesus sometimes sets
ajar the door of heaven, and passage of that
rapture greets our ears. The Ministries Of
heaven strike such tremendous strain, the
walls OF Jasper cannot hold it.
wonder, will you sing that song? VIII I
sing 1t! Not unless our sins are pardoned,
and we learn now to sing the praise of Christ,
VIII we ever sing it there. The first great
concert that | ever attended was in New
YORK, when Julien, in the Crystal Palace"
stood before hundreds of singers and hundreds
OF players upon Instruments. Some of you
may remember that OCCASION 1t was the first
one Of the kind at which was present, and I
Shaii never forget it. saw that one man
standing, and with tho hand and foot
WELD that great harmony beating tho
time. 1t was to me overwhelming. But
oh, the grander scene when they shall como
from the east, and from the west and from the
north, and from the south, ga great multitude
that no man cab number" into the temple Of
the skies, host beyond 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 feet.
Like tho voice of many waters, like the voice
OF mighty thunderlngs, they shall cry,
worthy is the lamb that was slain to receive
blessings and riches, and honor, and glory and
power, world without end. Amen and amen!'
On, II my ear shall hear no other sweet sounds.
may hear that. If | join no other glad as
semblage, may join that.
was reading of the battle of Agincourt, in
which Henry V. figured; and it is said after
the battle was won, gloriousy won, tho king
wanted to acknowledge the divine interposi-
ton, and he ordered the chaplain to read the
psalm OF David and when he came to tho
word, "Not unto us, o Lord, but INTO thy
namo be the praise, the king dismounted and
Oil the cavalry dismounted, and all the great
host officers and mon, threw themselves on
their faces. Oh, at the story of the Saviour's
love and the Saviours deliverance, shall We
not PROSTATE ourselves before him now, hosts
of earth and hosts of heaven falling upon our
faces, and crying, Not unto us, not unto US,
put unto thy name be tho gloryt"