Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-09-12

the triumphal strain. So the glorlfed
mother Will sing OF the cradle that death
robbed; and the enthroncd spirit from the
alms-house will sing of n lifetime of want.
God may wipe away all tears, but not
the memory of the grief that started theml
Further: 1t will be an accompanied song.
Some have a great prejudice against musi-
cal Instruments; and eYn 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 l love the harp, for David struck 1t in
praising the Lord. i love the trumpet, for
we are told that IL shall wake the dead. l
love all 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 j 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 II heard the voice Of he
harpers harping with their harps," and II
saw them which had gotten the victory from
the beast standing on the sea Of glass, hav-
ing the HARPs of God"
Yes, the song Is to be accompanied. You
say all this Is figurative. Then say, prove
IL. do not know how much OF ii Is literal.
Who can say but that 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
HabaklVuk the shigionoth; and when The
great multitudes shall, following their own
inclinations, take up instruments sweeter
| than Mozart ever fingered, or Schumann
ever dreamed Of, or Beethoven eve. wrote
| for, lot all heaven make ready for the burst
OF stupendous minstrelsy, and the roll of
the eternal orchestra.
Further, II Will be an anticipative song.
| Why, my friends, heaven has hardly begun
| yet. If you had taken the opening piece OF
| music to-day for the whole service you
| a f-t..l~
| TO suppose that heaven Is fully inaugurated.
| Festal chOruses on earth last only a short
| while. The famous musical convocation at
| Dusseldorf ended with the fourth day. Our
| holidays last only eight or ton days, but
| heaven, although singing for so many years,
| has only just begun the "now song IL
the glOrihed inhabitants recount past de-
| llverances, they will also enkindle at
gloPies to come. If, at nine O'Clock, when
| the church opened, you had taken the few
people who were scattered through 1t as
the main audianee, you would not have
made so great a mistake as IL you had sup
| posed that the present population of heaven
are to be its chief citizenship. Although
millions are already there, the inhabitants
| are only a handful compared with the future
| populations. All China is yet to be saved.
| All Borneo is yet to be saved. All SwitZer-
| land IS yet to be saved. All Italy is yet to
| be saved. All Spain is yet TO be saved. All
| Russia is yet to be saved. All France Is yet
To be saved. All England is yet to DO
saved. An America is yet to be saved. All
| the world is yet to be saved After that
| there may be other worlds to conquer l
| do not know but that every star that gilt
4 ters in our nights Is an inhabited world, and
that from all those spheres n mighty host
are TO march into our heaven. There will
be no gate TO keep them out. We do L.,C
| want TO keep them out. We Will not want
to keep them out, God will not want to
| keep them out.
| have sometimes thought that all the
millions OF earth that so into glory are but
a very small colony compared with the in
fiuX from the whole universe. God could
| build heaven large enough not only for
the universe, but for ten thousand uni
| verses. j do not know just how il viii be,
| but this | know, that heaven Is TO be con.
| stantly augmented: and that the song OF
| glory is rising higher and higher, and the
| procession Is being constantly multiplied.
| If heaven sang when Abel went up-the
first soul that ever left earth for glory-hoN.
must ii sing now when souls go up in 1ocks
from all Christondom, hour by hour, and
| moment by moment.
II the first day we enter heaven we sins
well, the next day we sing better Song an
ticipative of more delight, OF more love- OF
more triumphs. Always something new IN
hear, something new to see. Many gooo
people suppose that we should see heaven
| the HfSt uuy we get lncfc. NO. 1Ou can
not see London in two weeks. You can not
sec Rome in six weeks. Tou cannot see
Venice In a month. You can not see the
great city OF the New Jerusalem in a day.
No; IL will take all eternity to see heaven,
to count the towers, to examine the trophies,
to gaze upon the throne; TO see the HER
archs. Ages on ages roll, and yet heaven Is
| new! The streets new! The temple new!
The Joy new! The song new.
| / stayed week at Niagara Falls, hoping
TO thoroughly understand and appreciate IL.
But ON the last day they seemed newer and
more imcomprehensible than on the first
day. Gazing on the infinite rush OF celestial
splendors, whore the oceans OF delight meet
and pour themselves into the great great
| heart OF God-how soon will we exhaust the
song? NEVER! NEVER!
The old preachers, in describing the sor-
rows OF the lost, used to lift up their hands
and shout, THE wrath to GOMEZ" 1.-The
wrath to comet Today lift up my hands
and looking toward the great future, cry
| Tho Joy TO comet ''rhe bliss to come !"
Oh, to wander on the banks of the bright
river, and yet to feel that little further
down we shall find still brighter floods en-
tering into It! Oh, to stand a thousand
years listening to the enchanting music OF
heaven, and then TO find out that the harp
ers are only tuning their harps.
] Finally, / remark, that III 1t will be a
| unanimous song. There will, no doubt, be
some to lead, but all will be expected e
join. 1t will be grand congregational sing
ing. All the voices of the redeemed! Grand
music it Will be when that new song arises.
Luther sings It.. Charles Wesley sings It,
| Lowell Mason sings IL. Our voices now may
be harsh and our ears uncultivated, but,
our throats cleared at last. and our capaci-
ties enlarged, you and will not be ashamed
to utter our voices as loud as any of them.
Those nations that have always been dis
tingushed for their capacity in song will
lift up their voices in that melody. Those
who have had much opportunity to hear
the Germans sing will know what idea
mean TO give. when / say that the great
German nation will pour their deep full
voices into the new song Everybody knows
the natural gift of the African for singing.
No singing on this continent like that of the
colored churches In the south. Everybody
going to Richmond or Charleston wants "a
hear the African sing. But when not only
Ethiopia. but all that continent OF darkness
lifts up its hands. and all Africa pours heI
great volume of voice into the new song
that will be music for you. Added to this
are all the sixteen thousand million OF chill
dren that are estimated 20 have gone into
glory, and the host OF young and old that
hereafter people the earth and inhabit the
, stars.
Oh! the new song! Gather IL all up!
Multiply il with every sweetnessl Pour
| into IL every harmOnVl Grown IL with