The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-09-19
MUSIC IN HEAVEN.
DR.. Talmage Discourses on the
Celestial Melodies.
Mighty Music Of the Earth Greatly Sur
passed-The Songs of the Redeemed
Everlasting Joys Hereafter-The
Song of Glory.

In a recent sermon at Brooklyn Rev.
T. Dewitt Talmage gave glowing de-
scription of the melodies of the celestial
land. His text was from Revelations v.
Q: "And they sang new song" Fol-
lowing is the sermon:
Nearly all the cities OF Europe and
America have Conservatives of music
and associations whose object 1t is, by
voice and instrument, to advance the
art OF sweet sounds. On Thursday nights
Exeter Hall of London used to resound
with the music of first-class performers,
who gave their services gratuitously to
the masses, who came in with free
tickets and huzzaed at the entertain
ment. 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 multitudes 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 street and bewilder
the ear with incessant playing of flute,
and horn, violin and bassoon. At Dus-
seldorf. once year, the lovers of music
assemble 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 observation-disclosures and
vases of silver and gold. All our Amer
lean cities at times resound with orches-
ira and oratorio. Those who can sing
we'll or play skillfully upon instruments
landed by excited admirers
There are many whose most ecstatic
delight is to be found in melodies, and
all the splendor Of celestial gates, and
all the lusciousness of twelve manner
of fruits. and all the rush of floods from
under the throne of God would not make
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 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 tbrong,
but God will not deny US the pleasure
of standing awhile on the outside to
hear. John listened to it great while
ago and "they sang a new song"
Let none aspire to that blessed place
who 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 from the
glorious things now transpiring in Gods
world, and the ever accommodating tri-
umphs of the Messiah. that was the last
half hour that Heaven will ever be ST.
lent
Mark the fact that this was a new
song Sometimes / have in church
been foated away upon some great
chloral, in which all our people seemed
to mingle their voices, and 1 have, in
the glow of my emotions, said: Surely
this is music good enough for Heaven.
Indeed, do not believe that "Luther's
Hymn" or coronation" or "Old Hun
dred," or "Mount Pisgah," would sound
Ill If spoken by sanity 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 told, is new song.
Some of the greatest anthems and
chorals are compositions from other
tunes-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 it will, after all,
be new song. This 1 do know, that
in sweetness aud power it will be some
thing that ear never heard. All the
skill Of tho oldest harpers 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 doors
lTCu tu0 UlOSSOtuS VI tut tEtt Ol lLt.
"a new song"-iust made for Heaven.
Many earthly songs are written by
composers Just for the purpose of max
ing tune; and the land is flooded with
note books in which really valuable
tunes are the exception. But once in
a while man is wrought up by some
great spectacle, or moved by some ter
rible agony, or transported by some ex-
quisite gladness, and he sits down to
write tune or hymn. in which every
note or every word is spark dropped
from the forge of his own burning
emotions So Mendelssohn wrote. and
so Beethoven, and so Charles Wesley.
Cowper. depressed with misfortunes un-
til almost insane, resolved on suicide,
and asked the cab driver to take him to
a certain place where he expected to
destroy his own life. The cab driver
lost his way, and Cowper began to think
Of his own sin. and went back to his
home and sat down and wrote:
Sod moves in a mysterious way,
His wonders to perform;
He plants his footsteps In the sea,
And rides upon the storm
eye fearful saints, fresh courage take,
The clouds you so IN uch 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. EN-
lily looked around and her father was
dead.
This newssong of Heaven was not
composed because Heaven had nothing
else to do. but Christ, in memory of