Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-09-18

Further, 1t viii be an accompanied song
Some have great prejudice against musical
instruments; and even among those who lik,
| them there is an idea that they are unauthor
lied. 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
| that it shall awake the dead. love al
stringed instruments and organs, for God
demands 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 ~ heard the voice OF the harpers harp
ing with their harps,n and II saw them that
had gotten the victory from the beast stand
ing on the sea of glass, 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 much oft is
literal and how much OF it is fgurative
Who can say but that from some of the
precious woods of earth and heaven there
may not be made instruments OF celestial ac-
cord? In that worship David may take the
harp, and Habakkuk the shigionoth; and
when the great multitudes shall, following
their own inclinations, take up instruments
sweeter than Mozart ever fingered, or Schu-
mann ever dreamed OF, or Beethoven ever
wrote for let all heaven make ready for the
burst of stupendous minstrelsy and the roll
of the eternal orchestral
Further, it 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 mistake as
to suppose that heaven is fully inaugurated.
Festal choruses on earth last onlya short
while. The famous musical convocation at
Dusseldorf ended with the forth day. Our
HOLIDAYS last only eight or ten days; but
heaven, although singing for so many years,
has only just begun 'the new song" II the
glorified inhabitants recount past deliver
ances they will also enkindle at glories to
come. II at 0 O'Clock, when the church
opened, you had taken the few people
who were scattered through it as the
main audience, You would not have made
so great mistake as II you supposed tina
the present population Of heaven are TO be its
chief citizenship. Although millions are al
ready there, the inhabitants are only hand.
full compared with the future populations.
All China is yet TO be saved. All India is yet
10 be saved. All Borneo is yet to DO saved
All Switzerland is yet TO be saved. All Italy
is yet to be saved. All Spain is vet 10 be
saved. All Russia is yet to DO saved. All
France is yet to be saved All England is
yet TO be saved. All America Is yet to be
saved. All the world Is yet to be saved.
After that there may DO other worlds 10 con-
quer. | do not know but that every star that
Cutters in our nights is an inhabited world,
and that from all those spheres a mighty
host are TO march into our heaven. There
will be no gate to keep them out. We do not
want to keep them ont We viii not want
to keep them out God will not want TO
keep them out.
| have sometimes thought that all the mil
1fu Of fl.rxk f.tls l...N
very small colony compared with the influx
from the whole universe. God could build
heaven large enough not only for the uni
verse but for 10, 900 universes. do not know
just how it will be, but this / lmow-that
heaven is to be constantly augmented, and
that the song Of glory is rising higher and
higher and the procession is being multi
piled. II heaven sang when Abel went up
the first soul that ever left for glory-how
must it sing now when souls go up in fiocks
from all Christendom, hour by hour and mo-
ment by momentg
Our happy gatherings on earth are chilled
by the thought that soon we must separate.
Thanksgiving and Christmas DAYS come, aud
the rail trains flying thither are crowded.
Glad reunions take place. We have time
of great enjoyment. But soon it is Good
by in the hail. ''Good-by" at tho door,
'Good-by" on the street, ''Good-by" at the
rail train, Good by" at the steamboat
wharf. We meet in church. IL is good 20
be here. But soon the doxology will be
sung, the benediction pronounced and tho
audience viii be gone But there are no
separations, no good-bys in heaven. At the
toor OF the house OF many mansions no
sood-bys At the pearly gate no good-bys.
The song will be more pleasant because we
IRE always to sing it. Mightier song as our
'ther friends come in. Mightier song as
'ther garlands are set on the brow Of Jesus
Mightier song AS Christ's glories unfold.
stayed a week at Niagara Falls hoping I
thoroughly TO understand 1t and appreciate |
{. But on the last day it seemed newer and /
more incomprehensible than on the first day. I
iazing on the infinite rush OF celestial SPLEEN /
iorS where the oceans Of delight meet and 1
oour themselves into the great heart of God, 1
low soon will we exhaust the songi Never 4
Never
The old preachers, in describing the sor-
'ows of the lost, used 10 lift up their hands
md shout THE wrath to GOMEZ "The
wrath to comep To-day l lift up my /
hands, and looking toward the great future
,ry, The JOY to conner "The bliss to Gomez
Oh, to wander on the banks of tho bright
liver, and yet to feel that little further
lown we shall find still brighter floods en-
ering into i'll Oh, to stand thousand
vears, listening to the enchanting music Of
heaven, and then to find out that the harp
10 tTe Ouiy tuning tlelT uarpS.
Finally, remark that it will be unan-
nous song. There will, no doubt, be some
o lead, but all will be expected to join. Ii
viii be grand congregational singing. All
he sweet voices of the redeemedI Grand
music it will be when that new song arises
luther sings it. Charles Wesley sings it.
lowell Mason sings it, Our voices now may
'e harsh and our ears uacultivatod, but. our
hroats cleared at last and our capacities en-
arged, you and l will not be ashamed to
liter our voices as loudly as any of them.
Those nations that have always been
for their capacity in song
viii lift up their voices in that melody.
Those who have had much opportunity to
Iear the Germans sing will know what
dea mean 10 give when l say that the
'reat German nation will pour their deep.
ull voices into the new song. Everybody
.nows the natural gift of the African for
lnging. No singing on this continent
Ike that of the colored churches in the
'outh. Everybody going to Richmond or
o Charleston wants to hear the Africans
ing. But when not only Ethiopia. hut ali
hat continent of darkness, lifts no its hands.
nd all Africa pours her great volume OF
DICE into the new socg-that will be music
or you. Added to this arc all the sixteen