Connecticut western news., 1890-09-10

cross and crown, of manager and throne, of earth and heaven, and wrought upon by the raptures of t&e great eternity, poured this from his heart, made it for the armies of heaven to shout in cele- bration of victory, for worshipers to chant in their temple services, for the innuumerable home circles of heaven to sing in the house of many mansions. If a new tune be started in church there is only here and there person that can sing it. It is some time before the congre- gation learn a new tune. But not so with the new song of heaven. The children who went up today from the waters of the Ganges are now singing it. 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 on the river bank, those in the temple. Not feel ing their way through it, or halting, or going back, as If they never before had sung it, but with full round voice they throw their soul into thls new song. If some Sabbath day few notes of that anthem should travel down the air we could not sing it. No organ could roll it's thunder. No harp could catch it's trill No lip could announce it's sweetness. Transf1xed, lost, en- chanted, dumb, we could not hear it. the faintest note of the new song. Yet while speak heavens cathedral quakes under it, and seas of glory bear it from beach to beach, and ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands of thou sands sing it-''the new song"
 Further, it is a commemorative song. We are distinctly told that it makes reference to past deliverances. Oh, how much have they to sing about! They sing of the darkness through which on earth they passed, and it is night song That one was killed at Yorktown, and with him it is battle song. That one was imprisoned for Christ's sake, and with him it is a prison song. That was a Christian sailor boy that had his back broken on the ships halyards, and with him it is sailors song. That one burned at Smithfeld, and with him it is a fire song. Oh, how they will sing of floods waded, of fires endured, of persecution suffered, of grace extended Song of haill song of swordl song of hot lead song of ax! As when the organ pipes peal out some great harmony there comes occasionally the sound ot the tremulante, weeping through the cadences, adding exquisiteness to the performances, so amidst the stupen- dous acclaim of the heavenly worship CTS shall come tremulous remembrances of past endurance, adding a sweetness and glory to the triumphal strain. So the glorified mother will sing of the cradle that death robbed, and the en- throned spirit from the almshouse will sing of lifetime of want. God may wipe away all tears, but not the mem ory of the grief that started them!
 TT WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY HARPs.
 Further, it will be an accompanied song. Some have a great prejudice against musical instruments, and even among those who like them there is an idea that they are unauthorized. Hove the cymbals, for Israel clapped them in triumph at the Red Sea- love the harp, for David struck it in praising the Lord. I love the trumpet, for we are told that it shall wake the dead. l love all stringed instruments and or T hot Ch,11 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 d-twenty elders fell down be- fore the Lamb, having every one of them "harps," and 'sI heard the voice of the harpers harping with their harps," and 'I saw them that had got ten the victory from the beast standing 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 I say prove 1t. do not know how much of it is literal, and how much of it is f1gurative Who can say but that from some of the precious woods of earth and heaven there may not be made instruments of celestial accord9 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 Schumann 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 orchestra.
 Further, it will be an anticipative song. Why, my friends, heaven has hardly begun yet. If you had taken the opening piece of music today for the whole service you would not have made so great a mistake as to suppose that heaven is fully inaugurated. Fes, tai choruses on earth last only a short while. The famous musical convoca- tion at Dusseldorf ended with the fourth day. Our holidays last only eight or ten days, but heaven, although singing for so many years, has only just begun ''the new song" 1.-the glorified inhabitants recount past deliverances they will also enkindle at glories to come If at 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 a mistake as if you SUD- posed that the present population of heaven are to be it's chief citizenship. Although millions are already there, the inhabitants are only handful com pared 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