The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-09-12

That one was killed at yorktown, and
with him it is a battle song. That one
was imprisoned for Christ's sake, and
with him it is prison song. That was
q Christian sailor boy that had his back
broken on the ships halyards, and with
him It is sailors song. That one
burned at Smithfield, and with him it is
q fire song. o. how they will sing OF
floods waded, of fires endured. of perse-
cution suffered, of grace extended Song
of hail!sSOng of sword! song of hot lead!
song of axei AS when the organ pipes
peal out some great harmony, there
comes occasionally the sound OF the
tremulante. weeping through the ca
dences. adding exquisiteness to the per-
formances, so amidst the stupendous
acclaim of the heavenly wOrshipers shall
come tremulous remembrances of past
endurance, adding n sweetness and
glory to the triumphal strain So the
glorided mother will sing OF the cradle
that death robbed; and the enthroned
spirit from the almshouse will sing OF a
lifetime of want God may wipe away
all tears, but not the memory OF the
grief that started them!
Further: 1t will be an accompanied
song. Some have n great prejudice
against musical instruments; and even
among those who like them there is an
idea that they are unauthorized love
the cymbals, for Israel clapped them in
triumph at the Red sea. / love the harp,
for David struck it in praising the Lord
love the trumpet, for we are told it
shall wake the dead love all stringed
instruments and organs, for God de-
mands that We shall praise him on
stringed instruments and organs There
is in such music much to suggest the
higher worship; for read that when He
had taken the book the four and twenty
elders fell down before the Lamb, having
every one Of them 'harps," and Il
heard the voice of the harpers harping
with their hsrps," and 81 saw them that
had gotten the victory from the beast
standing on the sea of grass, having the
| harps of God"
Yes, the song is to be accompanied.
You say that all this is figurative
Then, / say, prove it. / do not know
how mucn of it is literal and how much
of it is figurative. Who can say but
that from some of the precious woods of
earth and Heaven there may not be
made instruments of celestial accord.
In that worship David may take the
harp and Habakkuk the shigionoth and
when the great multitudes shall, fol-
lowing their own inclinations. take up
instruments sweeter than Mozart ever
fingered or Schumann ever dreamed OF
or Beethoven ever wrote for, let all
Heaven make ready for the burst of stu
pendous minstrelsy and the roll Of the
| eternal orchestra!
Further: 1t will be an anticipative
song Why, my friends, Heaven has
hardly begun yet. II you had taken
the opening piece of music to-day for
the whole service you would not have
made so great a mistake as to suppose
that Heaven is fully inaugurated.
Festal choruses on earth last only a
short while. The famous musical con.
vocation at Dusseldorf ended with the
fourth day. Our holidays last only
eight or ten days. but Heaven, al
though singing for so many years, has
only just begun ''the new song" If the
glorified inhabitants recount past deliv.
FRANCES they will also enkindle atglOries
to come
If at nine o'clock, when the church
opened, you had taken the few people
who were scattered through it as the
so great a mistake as if you supposed
that the present population of Heaven
are to be its chief citizenship. Although
millions are already there, the inhab-
itants are only = handful compared
with the future populations All China
is yet to be saved. All Borneo is yet tC
be saved. All India is yet to be saved
All Switzerland is yet to be saved AL
Italy is yet to be saved All Spain il
yet to be saved. All Russia is yet to b.
saved. All France is yet to be saved
All England is yet to be saved. Al
America is yet to be saved. All the
: world is yet to be saved. After tina
there may be other worlds to conquer
do not know but that every star tina
glitters in our nights is an inhabited
world and that from all those spheres
mighty host are to march into oul
Heaven. There will be no gate to keel
them out. We do not want to keeI
them out
/ have sometimes thought that al
the millions of earth that go into glor,
are but very small colony compared
with the influx from the whole universe
God could build Heaven large enough
not only for the universe. but for tel
thousand uniyerses. do not know jus
how it will be, but this 1 know, tina
: Heaven is to be constantly augmented
and that the song of glory is rising
higher and higher and the procession Il
being multiplied. If Heaven sang wheI
Abel went up-the first soul that eve
left earth for g.ory-how must it sin,
now when souls go up in fiocks from al
Chr stendom, hour by hour and momen
: by moment
Our happy gatherings on earth ar,
chilled by the thought that soon W,
must separate. Thanksgiving ant
Christmas days come, and the rail trains
flying hither and thither are crowded
Glad reunions take place. We have
time of great enjoyment But soon it 4
good bye" in the hall. goodbye" a
the door, goodbye" on the street
goodbye" at the rail train, goodbye
at the steamboat wharf
We meet in church 1t is good to b
here. But soon the doxology will b
sung, the benediction pronounced ant
the audience will be gone. But Their
are no separations, no good-byes inHeav
en-. At the door of the house of man,
mansions no goodbye. Our voices nov
: may be harsh and our ears uncult
uASu' our OuN eutO1eo OASoISU ~ A1Se
and our capacities enlarged, you and
will not be ashamed to utter our voice
as loudly as any of them.
IL the first day we enter Heaven W
sing we'll, the next day we sing better
Song anticipative of more light, of NOR
love, of more triumphs- Always some
thing new to hear, something new t
: see. Many good people suppose tina
we shall see Heaven the first day w
get there. MOI You can not see Londol
in two weeks You can not see Rom
in six weeks You cannot see Venic'