The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-11-13

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innumerable homo 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. 1t is some time before the con-
gregation learn new tune. But not so
with the new song of Heaven. The
children who went up to-day from
the waters of the Gauges are
now singing it. That Christian
man or woman, who, few min
utes ago, departed from this very street,
has joined it. All know it-those by
the gates, those on the river bank,
these in the temple. Not feeling their
way through it, or halting, or going
back, as if they never before had sung 1T,
but with full round voice they throw
their soul into this new song. If some
Sabbath day few notes of that anthem
should travel down the air, we conld not
sing it. No organ could roll its thun-
der, no harp could catch it's thrill. No
lip could announce it's sweetness. Trans
fixed, lost, enchanted, dumb, we could
not hear 1.-THE faintest note of the
new song. Yet while speak, Heav-
ems cathedral quakes under it, and
seas of glory bear it from beach to
beach, and ten thousand times ten thou
sand, and thousands of thousands, sing
1.-THE new song"
Further, it is commemorative song.
We were distinctly told that it makes
reference to past deliverences. Oh,
how much have they to sing about.
They sing of the darkness through
which on earth they passed, and it is
a night song. That one was killed at
Yorktown, and with him it is a battle
song. That one was imprisoned for
ChrisU's sake, and with him it is a
prison song. That was 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 sword song
of hot lead song of axe! AS
when the organ-pipes peal out some
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| ally the sound of the tremulante, weep
ing through the cadences, adding ex-
quisiteness to the performances, so
amidst the stupendous acclaim of the
! Heavenly worshipers shall come tremu-
lous membranes of past endurance,
adding sweetness and glory to the
triumphal strain. So the glorified
mother will sing of the cradle that
death robbed; and the enthroned spirit
from the alms-house will sing of life
time of want. God may wipe away all
tears, but not the memory of the grief
that started them!
Further: 1t will be an accomplished
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.
l love the trumpet, for we are told that
it 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 l 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 Il heard the voice of the
harpers harping with their harps," and
4 saw them that had gotten the vic.
tory 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 fgurative.
Then | say, prove it. 1 do not know how
much of it is literal, and how much o.
1t is figurative. Who can say but thai
from some of the precious woods o.
earth and Heaven there may not be
made instruments Of celestial accord
In that worship David may take the
harp, and Habakkuk the shiglonoth;
and when the great multitudes shall
following their own inclinations, take
up instruments sweeter than Mozar
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 orchestral
Further: 1t will be an authoritative
song. Why, my friends, Heaven ha!
hardly begun yet. If you had take1
the opening piece of music to-day fol
the whole service, you would not have
made SO great mistake as to suppose
that Heaven is fully inaugurated
Festal choruses on earth last only &
short while The famous musical con
vocation at Dusseldorf ended with the
fourth day. Our holidays last only
eight or ten hours; but Heaven
although singing for so many years, ha.
only just begun 1.-The new song"
If the glorifed inhabitants recoun
past deliverances, Shey will also en-
kindle at glories to come. If, at nine
o'clock, when the church opened. vol
had taken the few people who were
, scattered through it as the main audi
ence, you would not have made so grea
mistake as if you supposed that thu
present population of Heaven are to b,
, its chief citizenship. Although millions
are already there, the inhabitants ar,
; only handful compared with the futur,
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