The Nicodemus cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Graham County, Kan.) 1887-1888, 1888-03-09

Av, 1t will be the children's song. You
| know very well that the vast ma iorty 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, 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 Sill
Dam; these were victims Of Herod's massacre;
these were thrown to croeodiles or into the
fire; these came up from Christian homes, and
these were foundlngs on the city commons
children everywhere in all that land; children
in the towers. children on the seas of glass,
children on the battlements. All, if you do
not like children do not 60 there. They are
in vast majority, and what song when they
lift it around about the throne.
JOINING THE GRAND MELODY.
The Christian singers and composers of all
ages will be there to JON 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 trumpets in the ancient
temples will be there. The 10000 harpers
that stood at the ancient dedication will be
there. The 300 singers that assisted on that
day will be there. Patriarchs who lived amidst
threshing floors, shepherds who watched
amidst Chaldean hills. prophets who walked,
with long beard and coarse apparel, pronounc-
ing who" against ancient abominations will
meet the more recent MARTYRS who went up
with leaping cohorts of fire; and some will
speak of the Jesus of whom thew prOphesied,
and others of the Jesus for whom they died.
o. what songl 1t came TO John upon Pat
mos; it came to Calvin in the prison; it drop
ped to John Knox in the fire; and sometimes
that song has come to your ear, perhaps, for
/ really do think it sometimes breaks oyer the
battlements of heaven.
A fo Of ,fv1ic #
t he 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-
~ sweet the choir rehearses tonight; they
have been rehearsing there for an hour"
NO." said some one about her, the choir is
not rehearsing tonight" Yes" she said,
II know they are, hear them sing,
how sweetly they sing!" Now, it
was not choir of earth that she heard, but
the choir of heaven. [ think that Jesus some
times sets aiar the doors of heaven, and
passage of that rapture greets our ears. The
Ministries of heaven strike such tremendous
strain, the walls of jasper can not hold it. l
wonder will you sing that song! Will l sing
ttE 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. | saw that one
man standing, and with the hand and foot
WELD that great harmony, beating the time.
1t was to me overwhelming. But, O, the
grander scene when they shall come from the
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, and Jesus shall stand
before that great host to conduct the har-
mOny, with his wounded hands and his 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 amenr' O, if nv ear shall hear no other
sweet sounds, may hear that! If join no
other glad assemblage, may join that
was reading of the battle of AgincOurt, in
which Henry figured; and it is said after the
battle was won, glOriOusly won, the king
wanted to acknowledge the divine interpOsi-
ton, and he ordered the chaplain to read the
Psalm of David; and when he came to the
words, 'Not unto us, o Lord, but unto thy
name be the praise" the king dismounted,
and all the cavalry dismOunted, and all the
great host, officers and men threw themselves
on their faces. o, at the story Of the Savior's
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 and crying, 'Not unto us, not
unto US, but unto Thy name be the glory"