Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1888-03-17

Az, n WIN be the ehHdren's song. You
know very well that the vast majority Of our
race die IN infancy, and 81 10 estimated that
eighteen thousand millions OF the little ones
are standing before God. When they shall
rise up about the throne to sing, the mlIfong
and the millions Of the little ones-.ah that
will be music for you These PLAYED in the
streets Of Babylon aud Thebes; tlFesc pluciled
lilies from the loot OF OliYet while Christ was
preaching about them; these waded in Sill
Dam; these were victims OF Herod's massacre;
these were thrown to crocodiles or into the
IRE; these came up from Christian homes, and
these we're foundlngs on the city COMMONS
children everywhere In all that land; children
In the towers, children on the seas OF glass,
children on the battlcments. All, II you do
not like children do NOT go there. They are
10 vast majority. aud wbat a song when they
lift 1t around about the throne.
JOIsING THE oRtSD MELODY.
The Christian singers aud composers of all
ages Will be there TO join in that song. Thorn
as Hastings will be there. Lowell Mason Will
be there. Bradbury will be there. Beethoven
and Mozart Will be there. They who sounded
the cymbals and the trumpeta 10 the ancient
temples will be there. The 1000 harpers
that stood at the ancient dedication will be
there The 200 singers that assisted on that
day win be there. Patriarehs who lived amidst
threshDg floors, shepherds who watched
amidst Chaldean hills. prophets who walked,
with long beard and coarse apparel, pronounc-
ing who against ancient aDominations, VIII
meet the more recent martyrs who went up
with leaping cohorts Of hre; and some will
speak Of the Jesus OF whom tbey prophesed,-
and others Of the Jesus for whom tbey died.
o, what songi II came TO John upon Pat
mos; II came TO Calvin In the prison; 1t drop
ped to John Knox in the fire; and sometimes
that song has come to your ear. perhaps, for
really do think 1t sometimes breaks oyer the
battlements Of heaven.
Christian woman, a wife OF a minister OF
I be gospel, was dying in the parsonage near
the old church, where on Saturday night the
choir used TO assemble and reherse for the fol-
lowing Sabbath, and she said, How strang-
ly sweet the choir rehearses tonight; they
have been rehearsing there for an hour.n
NO." said some one about her, a'the choir Is
not rehearslng tonight" Yes" she said,
81 know they are, hear them sing,
how sweetly they singh" Now, It
was not choir OF earth that she heard, but
the choir Of heaven. | think that Jesus some
times sets ajar the doors Of heaven, aud a
passage Of that rapture greets our ears. The
Ministries OF heaven strike such tremendous
strain, the walls Of jasper can not hold IL /
wonder viii you sing that songl VIII sing
itl Not unless our sins are pardoned, and we
learn how to sing the praise of Christ, Will
we ever sing It there.
THE ETERNAL CONCERT
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 remember that occasion; 1t was the
first one Of the kind at which / was present,
and shall never forget it j saw that one
man standing, and with the hand and foot
WELD that great harmony, beating the time.
IL WAS to me overwhelming. But, o, the
grander scene when they shall come from the
east, aud from the west, and from the north,
and from the south, ga great multitude that
no nan can 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 har-
mony, with his wounded hands and bis wound
ed foot Like the voice Of many waters, like
the voice OF mighty thunderings, 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 amenw o, If my ear shall hear no other
| sweet sounds, may hear that! IL join no
other glad assemblage, NAV join that.
| was reading of the battle OF Agincourt in
which Henry V figured; and it is said after the
/ battle was woD, gloriously won, the king
wanted to acknowledge the divine interp0si-
| tion, and he ordered the chaplain to read the
1 Psalm Of David; and when be came to the
words, s'NOt unto us, 0 Lord, but unto thy
name be the praise" the king dismounted,
/ aud all the cavalry dismounted, and all the
great host, officers and men threw themselves
on their faces. o, at the story OF the Saviors
/ love and the savior's deliverance, shall we
not PROSTATE ourselves before Him now,
/ hosts OF earth and hosts of heaven, falling up
| on our faces aud crying, ''Not unto US, not
unto US but unto Thy name be the glory"