Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-11

| Christian man or woman, who, few
| minutes ago. departed from this very
| street, has Joined 1t. All know it-those
| by the gates, those on the river bank,
| those IN the temple. Not feeling their
| way through it, or hating, or going
back, as If they never before had sung
| it, but with
FULL ROUND VOICE
they throw their soul into this new song
! II some Sabbath day few notes of that
anthem should travel down the air, we
could not sing it, No organ could roll
| its thunder. No harp could catch its
trill. No lip could announce its sweet
| ness. Transixed, lost, enchanted dumb f,
we could not hear 1.-THE faIntest note
! of the new song. Yet, while l speak
! heavens cathedral quakes under it, and
seas of glory bear it from beach TO beach f,
and ten thousand times ten thousand 4,
and thousands of thousands sing 1.-THE
new song
Further: It Is commemorative
| song, we are distinctly told that 1t makes
reference to the past deliverances. Oh,
how much have they to sing about
They sing of the darkness through which
on earth they passed, and it is a night
song. That one was killed at Yorktown
one was imprisoned for Christ's sake and
with him it is a prison song. That was q
Christian sailor boy that had his back
broken on the ships halyards and with
him it is a SAILORS song. That one
burned at Smithield and with him it is a
fire song. Oh! how they will sing of
floods waded, of fires endured, OF perse-
cution suffered, of grace extended!
Song of hail! Song OF sword! Song of
hot lead! Song of axe! AS when the
organ pipes peal out some great har-
mony, there comes occasionally the
sound of the tremulante, weeping
through the cadenoes, adding exquisite
ness to the performances, so amidst the
stupendous acclaim OF the heavenly wor-
shippers shall come tremulous remem-
branoes of past endurance, adding
SWEETNESS AND GLORY
to the triumphal strain. So the glorifed
mother will sing of the cradle that death
robbed; and the euthroned spirit from
the almshouse will sing of q lifetime OF
want God may wipe away all tears, but
not the memory of the grief that started
theml
Further: 1t will be an accom- pa MED
song. Some have a great prejudice
against musical instruments; and even
among those who like them there is an
idea that thew are unauthorized. l love
the cymbals, for Israel clapped them in
triumph at the Red sea. l love the
harp, for David struck it in 2raising the
Lord. l love the trumpet, for we are
told that it shall wake the dead. / love
all strlnged instruments and organs; for
God demands that we shall praise Him
on stTuged instruments and organs.
There is in such music something to sug-
gest the higher worship; for l read that
when he had taken the book, the four
aud-twenty elders fell down before the
Lamb, having every one of them
"harps, - and 81 heard the voice of the
harpers harping with their hsrps, - and
~ saw them that had gotten the victory
from the beast standing on the sea OF
glass, having the harps of God. -
Yes. the song is to be accompanied.
You say that all this is fgurative. Then
l say, prove 1t. l do not know how
much of it is literal, and how much is
fgurative. Who can say but that from
some of the precious woods of earth and
heaven there may not be made instru-
ments of celestial accord. In that wor-
ship David may take the harp, and Hab-
akkuk the shigionoth; and when the
great multltudes shall, following their
own incliDations, take up instruments
sweeter than Mozart ever fingered, or
Schumanu ever dreamed of, or Beetho-
ven ever wrote for, let all heaven make
ready for the burst of stupendous min
streIsv, and the roll of the
ETERNAL ORCHESTRA!
Further: 1t will be an authoritative
song. Why, my friends, heaven has
hardly begun yet. If you had taken the
opening piece OF music to-day for the
whole service, you would not have made
so great mistake as TO suppose that
heaven is fully inaugurated. Festal
choruses on earth last only a short while
The famous musical convocation at Dus-
seldorf ended with the fourth day.
Our holidays last only eight or
ten days; but heaven, although singing |
for so many years, has only just begun |
the new song If the glorified in |
habitants recount past deliverances, they |
will also enkindle at glories to come. If, |
at 9 o'clock, when the church opened, |
you had taken the few people who were |
scattered through it as the main audi
ence, you would not have made so great
q mistake as if you supposed that the
present population of heaven are to be
its chief citizenship. Although millions
are already there, the inhabitants are
only a handful compared with the future
All China is yet to be
saved. All India is yet to be saved.
All Borneo is yet to be saved. All
Switzerland is vet to be saved. All Italy
is yet to be saved. All Spain is yet to be
saved. All Russia is yet to be saved.
All France Is yet 10 be saved. All Eng
land is yet to be saved. All America is
yet to be saved. All the world is vet to
be saved. After that there NAV be
other worlds to conquer. l do not know
but that every star that glitters in our
nights is an inhabited world, and that
from all those spheres q mighty host are
10 march into our heaven. There will be
no gate to keep them out. We do not
want to keep them out. We will not
want TO keep them out. God will not
want TO keep them out.
l have sometimes thought that all the
millions of earth that go into glory are
out very small colony compared with
he influx from the whole universe. God
could build heaven large enough not
only for the universe, but for
TEN THOUSAND UNIvERsEs.
do not know just how it will be, but
his 1 know, that heaven is to be con-
family augmented; and that the song of
glory is rising higher and higher, and the
procession is being multiDlied If heaven