Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-09-13

50 great a mistake as II you supposed that
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
to be saved. All Borneo is yet to be saved
All Switzerland 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 be saved. All America is yet to be
saved. All the world is yet to be saved
After that there may be other worlds to con-
quer. do not know but that every star that
glitters 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 out We will not want
to keep them out. God will not want to
keep them out.
lions OF earth that go into glory are but
very small colony compared VITA the influx
from the whole universe. Col 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 | know-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 u9 in docks
from all Christen1om, hour by hour and mo-
ment by moment?
Our happy gatherings on earth are eaillel
by the thought that soon we must separate.
Thanksgiving and Christmas days come, ami
the rail trains flying thither arc Gro ydei.
Glad reunions take place. We have n time
OF great enjoyment. But soon it is Good
by" in the hall, 'Good-by" at the door,
'Good-by" on the street, ''Good-by" at the
rail train, ''Good by" at tho steamboat
wharf. We meet in church 1t is COOL to
be here. But soon the doxology will DO
sung, the benediction pronouncei, AMI the
separations, no good-bys in heaven At the
door of the house OF many mans ons no
good-bvs. At the pearly gate no goo1-bys.
The song will be more pleasant because we
are always to sing it, Migitor song as our
other friends come in. Mightier son, rs
other garIands are set on the brow OF Jesus.
Mightier song rs Christ's glories unfold.
stayed week at Niagara Falls, hoping
thoroughly to understand it and appreciate
it. But on the last day it seemed newer and
more iucomprehensible than on the first day.
Gazing on the infinite rush of celestial splen-
doris, where the oceans of delight meet and
pour themselves into the great heart of God,
how soon will we exhaust the song2 Neverl
Neverl
The old preachers in describing the sor-
rows of the lost, used to lift up their hands
and shout "Fhe wrath to conner "fhe
wrath to come" To day | lift up my
hands, and looking toward the great future
cry, The joy to conner 1.-The bliss to comep
Oh, to wander on the banks of the bright
river, and yet to feel that a 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, l remark that it will be unau-
imous song. There will, no doubt, be some
to lead, but all will be expected to join. 1t
will be grand congregational singing. All
the sweet voices of the redeemed! 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
be harsh and our ears uncultivated, but our
threats cleared at last and our capacities en-
larged, you and will not be ashamed to
utter our voices as loudly as any of them
Those nations that have always been
distinguished for their capacity in song
will lift up their voices in that melody.
Those who have hal much opportunity to
hear the Germans sing will know what
idea l 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 tho African for
like that of tho colored churches in the
South. Everybody going to Rich Dond or
to Charleston wants TO hear tho Africans
sing. But when not only Ethiopia, but all
that continent of darkness, lifts up its han Is,
and oil Africa pours her great volume of
voice into the new song-that will be music
for you. Added t. this arc all the sixteen
thousand millions Of children that are esti-
mated to have gona into glory, anil the host
of young and old that hereafter shall people
the earth and inhabit the stars
Oh the new song Gather it all upl Null
tiply it with every sweetnessl Pour into it
every harmony! Crown it with every glad
nessl Belt it with every splendor! Fire it
with every glorYi Toss it To tho greatest
height of majesty Roll it to the grandest
cycle of eternity and then you have but
the faintest conception Of what John ex
perienced when amidst tho magniticence of
apocalyptic vision, he heard ii the now song!
God grant that at last we may all sing ii.
But il we do not sing the praise of Christ
upon earth we will never sing it in heaven.
Be sure that your HEARTS are now attunel
for the heavenly worship. There is a clthe-
dral in Europe with an organ at each end.
Organ answers organ, anu the music waves
backward and forward with Bdescrihab,e
effect. Well, my friends, the time will come
when Garth aud heaven will be but different
parts Of one great accord. 1t viii be JOY hers
and joy therei Jesus here and Jesus therel
Trumpet to trumpet Organ to organl Ua'-
lelujah to hallelujah Until the day break
and the shadows fee away, turn, my be-
loved, and be thou like a roe or young hart
upon the mountains of Bet&3tm