Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-03-05

NIflDtI 'ldN VI M ~ rs lilt'N pun AWAY
at heyfapes the m1sic il weird andrthEilling,
So the song % heaven " ] be h sailors song
They We're voga-rTs onc1, aud thought they
could never get 70 shore, and before they
could get things snug ard trim the cyclone
struck them. But now they are safe Once
they went with d1nascd rigging, guns OF
distress booming through the storm; but the
pffot came aboard, and he brought them into
the harbor. Now they sing Of the breakers
past, the lighthouses that showed them wrafe
to sail, the pilot that took them through the
straits, the eternal shore on which they
landed
Ay, it will be the children's song You
know very well that the vast majority
of our race die In infancy, and it is estimated
that eighteen thousand millions of the little
ones are standing before God. When they
shall rise up about the throne to sing, tire
millions and the millions of the little ones
ahl that viii be music for you! These played
in the streets OF Babylon and Thebes; these
plucEed lilies from the foot OF Oiivet while
Christ was preaching about them; these waded
in Sloan: these were victims OF Herod's
massacre these wera thrown 70 crocodiles or
into the fire; these came up from Christian
homes, and these were tOundlings on the city
tcommons-childTeA everywhere in all that
land; children in the towers, children on the
seas of glass, children on the battiements
All, if Won do not like children, do not go
tilere They are in vast majority, and what
u song when they lift it around, about the
thrOuet . e.. --.- .....4...s
The Christian singers and composers Of all
ages will be there u join in the song Thomas
Hastings will be there Lowell Mason will
70 there Bradbury win be there Beetho-
ven and Mozart viii be there They who
sounded the cynbals and the trumpetS i'll the
snciene temples will be there. The forty
thousand harpcrs that stoctl at the ancient
dedication will 6e there. The tiro hundred
singers that assisted On that day viii be there.
Paryisrchs who lived amidst threshing
8oors, shepherds who watched amidst Chal-
dean hills, prophets who walked, with hong
I. bearis aud crsarse apparel Pponounciug WOO
, against ancient denominations. will meet the
more recent martyr, who went up with leap
ing cohorts OF fire; and some VIII speak OF
the jesus Of whom they prophesied. and
others OF the Jesus for whom they died Oh
what a songi 1t came 70 John upon Patmos;
it came 70 Calvin in the prison; it drQpped
to John Knox in tho fire; and sometimes
tilJ song ldS tNliilt ~ NpllE edl,
I rally do think it sometimes brnaks over
che battlpmcuts ot h.eiveS. s"~-
A Christian wuu,an, the wife Of minister
Of tho gospel, WIS dying in the parsonage
near tie Old church Ihnre on Saturday
night the choir used to assemble and rehearSe
for Ihe following sSal,isu0h, and sue said:
''How strangely sweet the choir FehsarSeS
tonight; th-y have b-zsn rebearsins there for
20 hour" 'sNu,' SAIL some one atpuu Esr,
1.-THE choir is not rs.heaESius tonight Yes, -
she said, Il know they are, hear them sing
how very slgecTiy they si1sr' Now it was
not a choir. OF earth that she beard, but the
chcir of heayeu. | think that Jesus. some
times sets aiar. the door of heaven, and Il
passage OF thaL,rapture Sneets our ears The
. minStrels Of .eayen strike such tremendous
strain, the walls OF jasper carnot hold it.
wonder, will you sing that song' VIII
sing it, Not unless our sins are pardonei,
and we learn now to sing the praise o: Christ,
win We ever sing it there. The first great
concert that l 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 yeu
may remember that occasion; 1t was the first
one Of that Kind at which was present, and
shall never forget il. saw that one man
standing, and with the hand and foot WELD
that great harmony, beating the time. 1t was
30 me overwhelming. But oh, the grander
scene when they shall come from the east,
and from tho west, and from the north,
and from the south, "a great multitude that
no man can number, into the ten pie of the
| skies, host Beyond host, rank beyond rank,
gallary above gallery, and Jesus snail stand
before that great host TO conduct the har-
mony, with his wounded hands and his
wounded feet Like the voice Of many
waters, Ike the voice of mighty thupderings,
| 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 srneu." Oh, if my ear shall
hear no other sweet s0uIds, may hear that
Ii l Join no other glad sssemblage, may |
join that.
l was reading OF the battle of Asincourt,
in which Henry Y figured; and it is said
after the battle was won, gloriousIy won, the
king wanted to acknowledge the divine in
terpuSition, and he ordered the chaplain to
read the Palm of David; and when he came
10 the word, Not cato Us, ., Lord. but
unto Thy name be the praise the king dis
mounted, and all tho cavalry dismoynted,
and al the great host, officers and men,
threw themselves on their faces Oh, at the
story OF the Sayiorii love and the Savior's
deliverspcs, shall We not pcostrate ourselves
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 De the glory --