Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-09-25
"a NEW SONG.".
'0E. TALNAGE DIsCOuRsEs ON
MUSIC IN HEAVEN.

MUSIC IN HEAVEN.
"Tho New Song" Which Will be
Sung In Celestial Abodcs.-Its Sig
nificance, Its Power and Its
Purpose.
On Sunday the eth, DR.. Talmage preached
In the Brooklyn Tabernacle, his text being
taken from Rev. s. Q: "And they sang new
song" he said:
Nearly all the cities Of Europe and Amer.
lea have conservatories Of music, and asso-
Citations, whose object it is, by voice and
Instrument, to advance the art OF sweet
sounds. On Thursday nights, Exeter Haul
Of London used to resound with tho music
OF arst-class performers, who gave their
services gratuitously to the masses, who
came in with free tickets and huzzaed at
the entertainment. At Berlin, at eleven
o'clock daily. the military band, with sixty
or one hundred Instruments, discourses at
the royal opera house for the people. On
Easter Sunday, in Dresden, the boom Of
cannon and the ringing Of bells, bring
nultitudes to the churches to listen to the
organ peals, and the exciting sounds OF
trumpet and drum. When the great fair
day of Leipsic comes the bands Of music
from far and near gather in the streets and
bewilder the ear with incessant playing OF
nuto and horn. violin and bassoon. At
music ssemtle, and for three or four days
wait upon the great singing festivals, and
shout at the close Of the choruses, and
greet the successful competitors as the
prizes are distributed-cups and vases Of
silver and gold. All our American cities at
times resound with orchestra and oratorio.
Those who can sing we'll or play skilfully
upon instruments are greeted with vocifer-
alton, 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
lusctousness OF twelve manner OF fruits,
and all the rush OF foods from under the
throne OF God, would not make heaven
for them II there were no great and trans
porting 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 the
street of heaven we hear. from the temple
Of God and the Lamb the breaking forth OF
magnificent jubilate. We may not yet
enter in among the favored throng, but God
Will not deny us the pleasure of standing
awhile on the outside to hear. John
listened to 1t great while ago, and "they
sang new song.
Let none aspire to that blessed place who
have no love for this exercise, for although
1t 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 from
the glorious things now transpiring in Gods
world, and the ever accommodating triumphs
OF the Messiah, that was the last half-hour
that heaven will ever be silent.
Mark the fact that this was a new song.
sometimes l have in church been foated
away upon some great choral. in which all
our people seemed to mingle their voices,
and l have, in the glow Of my emotions,
said, Surely this is music good enough for
heaven Indeed I do not believe that
'Luther's Hymn or Coronation or old
Hundred or Mount Pisgah,' would sound
Ill II spoken by sainted lips, Or thrummed
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 1old,
Is new song. Some Of our greatest
anthems and chorals are compositions from
other tuncs-the sweetest parts OF them
gathered up into the harmony; and I have
sometimes thought that this new song
may be partly made up Of sweet strains of
earthly music mingled in eternal choral.
But 1t will, after all, be new song. This
l do know, that in sweetness and power it
Will be something that ear never heard.
All the skill of the oldest harpers of heaven
will he 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 blossoms 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 a
tune; and the land is flooded with note
books In which really valuable tunes are
the exception. But once in while man
Is wrought up by some great spectacle, or
moved by some terrible agony, or trans
ported by some exquisite gladness, and he
ATS down TO write tune or ny mn in
which every note or every word is q spark
dropped from the forge OF his own burning
emotions. So Mcndelssohn wrote, and so
Beethoven, and so Charles Wesley. Cowper,
depressed with misfortunes until almost in
sane, resolved on suicide, and asked the cab
driver to take him to a certain place where
he expected to destroy his own life. Ike
cab driver lost his way, and Cowper bean
to think OF his sin, and went back to his
homo and sat down and wrote
"God moves in a mysterious way.
His wonders to perform;
He plants his footsteps in the sea,
And rides upon the storm.
aye fearful saints, fresh courage take.
The clouds you SO much dread
Are big with mercy. and shall break
In blessings on your head"
Mozart composed his own requiem, and
said to his daughter Emily, "Play that"
and while Emily was playing the requiem,
Mozart's 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, OF manser and throne Of earth and
heaven, and wrought up by the raptures OF
Afn ffu
heart, made 1t for the armies of heaven to
shout in celebration OF victory, for Worship
pers to chant In their temple services, for
the innumerahio home circles of heaven to
sing in the house OF many mansions. TIA
new tune be started In church there is only
here and there person that can sing it. 1t
Is some time before the congregation learns
new tune. But not so with the new songs
OF heaven. The children who went up to-
day from the waters Of the Gauges are now
singing 1t. That christian man or woman.
who. few minutes ago. departed from this
very street has Joined it. All know it
those by the gates. those by the river bank.
those In the temple. Not feeling their vav