The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-09-19
ANGELIC scHdIRs.
DR.. Talmage Describes the Mu.
sic Furnished by All
gelic Choirs.
Free to All who do Right on
Earth and Pass the
Pearly Gates.

BnooxLYX special.-Dr Talmagc's text
vas (lsev. v. 9,) "And they sang new song"
Following is the sermon:
Nearly all the cities OF Europe and America
have conservntOries of music, md associa-
tions, whose object ii is, by voice md instru
ment. to advance the art OF sweet sounds.
On Thursday nights, Exeter Hall, of London
used to resound with the music of frst-class
performers, who gave their services gratui.
tously 10 the n,nsses, who ceme in with free
tickets and huzzael ut the entertainment.
At Berlin, at II o'clock duly, the military
at the royal opera house for the people. On
Easter Sunday in Dresden, the boom Of can
non and tho ringing OF bells bring multitudes
to the churches to listen to the organ penls and
the exciting sounds of trumpet and drum.
When the great fair dcy OF I.eipsic comes. tho
bands of music from Iur and near gather in
the street md bewildcr tho ear with inces-
SAINT playing of flute, md horn aud violin,
and bassoon. At Dusseldorf, once II year, the
lovers Of music assembled, and for three or
four days wait upon tho great singing fcs.
tvnls and shout Mt tho close of the
choruses and greet the successful COM
petitors Us the prizes are observation-disclosures
and vases OF silver and gold. All our Amcri.
cnn cities at times resound with orchestra
ard Oratori0. Those who can sing well or
play skillfully upon Instruments are greeted
with vocieration, or garlandcd by excited
admirers.
There are many whose most ecstatc de-
light is to be huntl in melodies and al! the
splrntor of celestial gates and nll the
luscousnrss Of twelve manner OF fruits, aud
all the rush of floods from under the throne
OF God, would not make n heaven for them
if there were no great and transporting
harmonies. 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 tho street
OF heaven We heur, from the temple oi God
and tho Lamb, the hrenking forth of mag
niticent jubilatc. We mny not vet enter in
among the favored tllrong, but God will not
deny us the pleasure of standing awhile ON
the outside to hear. John listened TO it II
great whilo ugo, anl "they sang q new
song
Let none aspire to that blessed place who
have no love for this exercise, Tor although
it in many ages since he thrones were sct,
and the hnrps were strung, there has been no
cessation in the song, excepting once for
about 30 minutes; and, Judging from tho
world, and tho everaccumulating trumphs
of the Messiah. that was tile last hall hour
TINT heaven will ever be silent.
Mark the fnct that this wns n new song.
Sometimes have in church been tlOatcd away
upon some great choral, in which all our peo.
pie seemed TO minglc their voices. aud have,
in the glow of my emotions, said, "Surely
this is music good enough for heaven" In-
deed, ] do not believe that "Luthcr's
Hymn" or "Coronation," or "Old Hun
dre'l, or Mount Pisgah," would sound i'll
il spoken by sainteh lips, or thrummed from
seraphic harps. There nro mnny of our ln-
thers aud mothers in glory who would be
time harmonies. but this. We are told is n
| new song. Som ofoHr greatest anthems and
chOrals arc compositions from other tunes
tho sweetest parts of them gathered up into
the harmony; and vesomctimcs thought
that this new song may bc partly nude
up of sweet strains Of earthly music mingled
in eternal choral. But it will after nlI, be n
new song. This do know, that in sweet
ness and power it will he something TINT car
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 II. In its
cntlences tlio floods will clap their ian'ls md
it will drop with the sunlight OF everlasting
day. md breathe with odors from the bios.
sOms of tho tree ofliie. "A new sons"-jnst
made for heaven.
Many earthly songs ore written by COM
poserH just for the purpose Ofmakinga tune:
and the land is flooded with note.lnoks in
which really valuable tuncs are thecxc.ption.
But once in while IL man il wrought up by
some grent spectacle, or moved by some
terrible agony, or transported by some cx.
quisitc glndness, md he sits down to write IL
tune or hymn, in which every note or every
word is II spark dropped from the Iorgr 0i
his own burning emotions So Men,lcssonn
wrote, aud so, Beethoven. and 20 Charles
Wesley. Cowper. depressed with mis-: ortunps
until almost insane, resolved OH suicide and
asked the cab.driver TO take him To n certain
pace where lie expected to destroy his own
li.e The calrdriver lost his way and Cow
per began to think OF his sin, and went back
to his home md wrote
God moves in n mysterious way,
His wonders to perform;
He plants Iia footsteps in the sea,
And rides uDOn the STORM