The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-03-16


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Jerusalem, my bsppy nouua
Name ever dear 10 -;
When shall my labon hsve - -
In JOY and peace in theei
On earth We sang harvest songs % u
wheat came iuto the barn and The bar
racks were allsd You know there IL NJ
such time on farm - when they get the
crops in; and % In Heaven II will Be .
harvest song ON the part OF those who on
earth sowed In tears and reaped In Joy.
Lift up your heads, 70 everlasting gates,
ana let the sheaves come inI Angels shout
all through the heavens, and multttudse
come down the hills cryings "Harvest
nomeI harvest homew
There II nothing more bewftchinG 70
ones ear than the song OF sailors far out
&C see, whether In day OF night - they
pull away ct the ropes-the music 10
weird and thrilling. So tho song IN
Heaven will bs . sailors song. Ihey
were voyagers once. and thought they
could never get to shore, and before they
could get things snug and trim the cy'
clone struck them. But now they are
safe. Once they went with damaged
rigging. guns OF distress booming through
the storm; but the pilot came aboard
and hs brought them into the harbors
Now they sing OF the breakers past, the
lighthouses that showed them whore 70
SAL, she pilot that took them through the
straits, the eternal shore on which they
landed.
Ay, Il will be the chfldern's song. You
know very well that the vast majority OF
our race die in infancy. and it Is sstimat.
Cd that eighteen thousand millions Of the
little ones arc standing before God. When
they shall rise up about the throne to
sing, the millions and the millions OF the
little ones-ah! that will be music for
you! These played In the streets OF
Babylon and Thebes; these plucked lilies
from the foot OF Olivet, while Christ was
preaching about them; these waded In
Sloan; these were victims OF Herod's
massacre; these were thrown to crocodiles
or into the nre: these came up from Chris
tan homes. and these were fondlinss on
the city commons-chiidren everywhere
in al that land; children in the towers,
children on the seas OF glass, children on
the battlements. All, II you do not like
children, do not 60 there. They are in
vast majority, and what song whom
they lit it around about tho throne!
Inc Christian singers and composers OF
all ages will be there to Join In that song.
Thomas Hastings will be theirs. Lowell
Mason will be there. Bradbury will DO
there Beethoven and Mozart will be
there. They who sounded the cymbals
and the trumpets In the ancient temples
will be there. The forty thousand harpers
that stood at the ancient dedication will
De there. The two hundred singers that
assisted on that day will be there. Patri
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 denominations, will
meet the more recent martyrs who went
up with leaping cohorts Of fire, and sons
will speak of the Jesus of whom they
prophesied. and others Of Jesus for whom
they died. Oh, what a song 1t came to John
upon Patmos; it came to Calvin in the
prison; it 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 battlements Of
Heaven.
A Christian wo man. the wife Of min.
lister of the Gospel. was dying in the par.
sonage near the old church, where on Sat-
urday night the choir used to assembl Q
and rehearse for the following Sab bath,
and she said:
'.How strangely sweet tho choir 70.
hearses tonight; they have been re.
there for an hour"
"No," said some one about her, ''the
choir is not rehearsin9 tonight"
"Yes," she said, ~ know they ara, I
hear them sing; how very sweetly they
singw
Now Il was not choir Of earth that she
heard. but the choir Of Heaven. 1 think
that Jesus sometimes sets aiar the door Of
Heaven. and Q passage Of that rapture
greets our ears. Tho minstrels Of Heaven
strike such tremendous strain the walls
Of Jasper can not hold it.
Iwonder will you sing that song! Will
I sing iti Not unless our sins are par.
doned, and we learn now to sing the
praise Of Christ, will we ever sing II
there. The first great concert ever at.
tended was in New York, when Jul len,
in the ''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 was present, and shall never
forget it. saw that one man standing,
and with the hand and foot WELD that |
great harmony, beating the time. II
was to me overwhelming. But, oh, the
grander scene when they shall come from |
tho east and from the west, and from
the north and from the south, "a great |
multitude that no man can NUMBER" into |
the temple Of the skies. host beyond host, |
rank beyond rank, gallery above gallery. |
bo.t To conduct the harmony. With hi.
~Ouhuou """uS snu MS "ou"uou 1901