Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-09-19
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S Sun
DAY SERMON.
1.-THE New Song of Heaven"

ment TO advance the art or sweet SOUNDS. On
/ Thursday night Exeter Hall, of London, used
to resound with the music of first-class per-
formers, who gave their services gratuitously
to the masses, who came in with free tickets
and huzzaed at the entertainment. At Ber
lin at II o'clock daily the military band, with
sixty or q hundred instruments, discoursesa at
the Royal Opera House for the people. On
Easter Sunday in Dresden the boom OF
cannon and the ringing of bells bring mEl
titudes TO the churches to listen to the or
gan peais and the exciting sounds OF
trumpet and drum. When the great fail
day Of LGpSic comes the bands of music
from far and near gather in the street and
bewilder the ear with incessant playing OF
flute and horn, violin and haSsoon. At Dus-
Seldorf once year the lovers or music as
semble, and for three or four days wait upon
the great singing festivals, and shout at the
close of the choruses, and greet the success
ful competitors as the prizes are distributed
cups and vases OF silver and gold. All our
American cities at times resound with or
chestra and oratorio Those who can sing
well or play skillfully upon instruments are
greeted with vociferation and garlanded by
excited admirers
There are many whose most ecstatic de-
light is to be found in melodies and all the
splendor Of celestial gates, and all the lns-
ciousness of twelve manner Of fruits and all
the rush of floods from under the throne of
GOD would not make heaven for them IL
there were no great and transporting har-
monies. Passing along our streets in the
hour of worship you hear the voice Of sacred
melody, although you do not enter the
building And passing along the street OF
heaven we hear, from the temple Of God and
the Lamb, the breaking forth Of magnificent
Jublate. We may not yet enter in among
the favored thrOng, but God will not deny us
the pleasure of standing while on the out
side to hear. John listened TO it q great
while ago, and they sang new song"
IQt aSTjra rn that hlocco5 rN1aoo hN
have no love for this exercise for although
it is many ages since the thrones were set,
and the harps were strung, there has been no
cessation in the song, excepting once for
about thirty minutes; and, judging fro!:t the
glorious things now Transporting in Gods
world, and the ever accommodating triumphs
or the Messiah, that was the last half hour
that heaven will ever be silent.
Mark the fact that this was new song.
Sometimes | have in church been floated
away upon some great choral, in which all
our people seemed to mingle their voices,
and have, In the glow Of my emotions. said:
Surely this is music good enough for
heaven" Indeed, l do not believe that
"Luther's Hymn" Coronation" or "Old
Hundred or ''Mount Pisgah" would sound
from seraphic harps. There are many of our
fathers and mothers in glory who would be
slow to shut heavens gate against these old
time harmonies. But this we are told is a
new song. Some Of our greatest anthems
and chorals are compositions from other
tunes-the sweetest parts of them gathered
up into the harmony; and l have
sometimes thought that this new
song" may be partly made up of
sweet strains of earthly music mingled in
eternal choral. But it will, after ALL be
new song. This do know. that in sweetnes
and power it will be something that the ear
never heard. All the skill of the oldest harp
ers Of heaven will be flung into it. All the
love of Gods heart will ring from it. In its
cadences the floods will clap their hands, and
It Will drop with the sunlight of everlasting
day and breathe with odors from the bios
SONS of the tree of life. "a new song''-just
made for heaven
Many earthly songs are written by com.
posers just for the purpose Of making tune,
and the land is flooded with note books in
which really valuable tunes are the excep.
tion. But once in while man is wrought
up by some great spectacle or moved by
some terrible agony, or transported by some
exquisite gladness and he sits down to write
q tune or hymn in which every note or
every word is spark dropped from the forge
OF his own burning emotions. So MendeIs-
sohn wrote, and so Beethoven and so Charles
Wesley. CoWper, depressed with misfor-
tunes until almost insane, resolved on suicide.
and asked the cab driver to take him to q
his own life. Tho cab driver lost his way,
ana CowpeT began to think of his sin, and
went back to his home, and sat down and
wrote:
God moves In mysterious Way
His wonders to perform;
He plants His footsteps in the sea
And rides upon the storm.
Ye fearful saints. fresh courage take:
The Clouds you 60 much dread
- ARE big with mercy and shall break
I = In blessings On your head
~>~9
Mozart composed his own requiem and
said to his daughter Emily, sPlay that"
And while Emily was playing the requiem
Mozarts soul went up on the wave of his
own music into glory. Emily looked around
and her father was dead.
This new song Of heaven was not COM
posed, because heaven had nothing else to
do, but Christ, in memory OF cross and
crown, or manager ana throne, OF earth and
heaven, and wrought upon by the raptures
of the great eternity, poured this from His
heart, made it for tho armies of heaven to
shout in celebration OF victory, for worship
ers to chant in their temple services for
the innumerable home circles of heaven to
sing in the house of many mansions. Ii O
new tune be started in church there is only
here and there a person who can sing It.
1t is some time before the congregation
learns new tuue. But not so with the
new song of heaven. The children who
went up to-day from the waters of tn
Ganges are now singing it. That Christian
man or woman who few minutes age
departed from this very street has joined
it. ALI know it--tbose by the gates, those
on the river bank, those i'll 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. If some Sab
bath day few notes of that anthem should
travel down the air we could not sing it. No