The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1888-03-15


l,ttle ones are standing before Gos. = hea
thew shaN rise up about the thronS =
sing. the millions AID the millions OF .ne
IittIe ones ,ahi that will be music LOT
voui These played 10 the streets o.
Babylon and Ehebes; these piuckeu = 80
from the foot OF Olivet while thrst was
preaching about them; these wadea -
SLOAN; these w,ere victims % nelu ~
massacre; these wei Q thrown 70 croco =, i.os
or into the fire; these came up from Snr's-
tian homes. and tEeas were iohui'iiks on
,ha citv common s---clf. 'Idren everywhere
in all that land; children IN .hs .o~s.s'
children on the seas Of glass, chhdren ON
the battiements. All, il you do not Ike
children, do not go there. Ihey are IN
vast majority. and what song when
they lift il around about the thre
The Christian singers and COMP osers Oh
all ages will be there to join in that song
Thomas Hastings will be there. LoNeeh
Mason will be there. Bradbury viii 10
there. Beethoven and Mozart viii pc
there. They who sounded the cymbais
and the trumpets in the ancient temples
will be there. The forty thousand harpers
that stood at the ancient dedication VIII
he there. The two hundred singers that
ass listed on that day will be there. Patr-
archs who lived amidst threshing floors,
shepherds who watched amidst Chaldean
hills, prophets who walked with long
boards and coarse apparel pronouncing
woe against ancient abom~nations, VIII
naat the more recent martyrs who went
up with leaping cohorts Of gre, and some
will speak of the Jesus of whom they
prophesied, and others Of Jesus for whom
they died. Oh, what song II came TO john
upon Patmos; IL came to Calvin in the
prison; it dropped to John Knox In the
fire; and sometimes that song has come 10
! vour ear, perhaps, for really do think II
sometimes breaks over the tattlements OF
| Heaven.
A Christian wo man, the wife OF MN
lister of the Gospel, was dying IN the par
| sonege near the old church, where on sat
urds night the choir used to assemble
and rehearse for the following Sabbath,
and she said:
GLOW strangely sweet the choir re-
hearses tonight; they have been re-
hearsing there fer an hour"
sffo,r said some one about her, 1.-THE
choir is not rehearsing tonight"
"Yes,n she said, "I know they are,
near them sing; how very sweetly they
singW
| Now it was not a choir of earth that she
heard, but the choir of Heaven. | think
that Jesus sometimes sets atar the door OF
| Heaven, and a passage of that rapture
| greets our ears. The Ministries of Heaven
strike such tremendous strain the walls
| Of Jasper can not hold 1t.
! wonder will you sing that songf Ill
l sing itf Not unless our sins are par
donod and we learn now to sing the
| praire of Christ, will we ever sing II
| thers The first great concert ever at
tended was in New York, when Jul len,
in e,e "Crystal Palace" stood before
hundreds OF singers and hundreds
of players upon Instruments. Some
of you may remember that occa-
sion; it was the first one of the kind at
which I was present, and l shall never
forget IL. | saw that ore man standing,
and with the hand and foot WELD that
| great harmony, beating the time. 1t
was to me overwhelming. But, oh, the
grander scene when they shall come from
| the east and from the west, and from
the north and from the south, ga great
multitude that no man 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 harmony, with his
wounded hands and his wounded feet
Like the voice of many waters, like the
voice of mighty thun behring's, they shall
cry: CIV or thy is the Lamb that was SLAIN
toreceive blessings, and riches, and honor,
and glory. and power, world wishoutend.
Amen and amenl" Oh, il my ear shall
hear no other sweet sounds, may | hear
thati II join no other glad assemblage,
may | join that.
/ was reading OF the battle of Agin
court, in which Henry " figured; and it IL
said after the battle was won, gloriously
won, the King wanted to acknowledge
the divine interposition, and he ordered
the chaplain to read the Psalm of David;
and when he came TO the word, "Not unto
us, o Lord, but unto thy name be the
praise" the King dismounted, and all the
cavalry dismounted, and all the grea
host, OH GERS and men, threw themselves
on their faces. Oh, at the story of the
Saviour's love and the Saviour's de
liveranee, shall we not PROSTATE our
selves before him now, hosts of earth and
hosts of Heaven, falling upon our faces
and crying: mot unto us, not unto us,
but unto Thy name be the gloryP