Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-08

those IN the temple. Not feeling their
way through 1t. or batting, or gong
back. as if they never before had sung
it, 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
could not sing it No organ could roll
its thunder No harp could catch its
tril. No lip could announce its sweet
ness. Transhxed, lost, enchanted dumb,
we could not hear 1.-THE faIntest note
of the new song. Yet, while l speak,
heavens cathedral quakes under it, and
seas of glory bear il from beach to beach,
and ten thousand times ten thousand,
and thousands of thousands sing 1.-THE
new song.
Further: 1t Is commemorative
song, we are distinctly told that it makes
reference to the past deliverances. On,
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 York town
and with him it is battle song. That
one was imprisoned for Christ's sake and
with MIN il is a prison song. That was @
Christian sailor boy that had his back
broken on the ships halvards and with
him it is sailors song. That one
burned Ut Smithheld and with him it is
fire song. On! how they will sing of
floods waded. of fires endured, of perse-
cution suffered, of grace extended!
Song of hail! Song OF sword! Song of
hot leadl Song of axel IS when the
organ pipes peal out some great har-
mony, there comes occasionally the
aF,iTn
through the cadences, adding exquisite
ness to the performances, SO amidst the
stupendOus acclaim of the heavenly wor-
shippers shall come trpmulous remem-
brances of past endurance, adding
4 SWEETNESS AND GLORY
to the triumphal strain. So the glorifed
mother will sing OF the cradle that death
robbed; and the enthroued spirit from
the almshouse will sing of q lifetime of
want God may wipe away all tears, but
not the memory of the grief that started
them!
Further: It will be an accom- pa MED
song. Some have a great prejudice
against musical Instruments; and even
among those who ike them there is an
idea that thew are unauthorized. love
the cYmbals, for Israel clapped them in
triumph at the Red sea. l love the
hurp, for David struck it in 2rasing the
Lord. / love the trumpet, for we are
told that it shall wake the dead. l love
all strlnged instruments and organs; for
God demands that we shall praise Him
on stringed instruments and organs.
There is in such music something to sug-
gest the higher worship; for l read that
when he had taken the book, the four
and-tw elders fell down before the
Lamb, having every one of them
"hGrps, - and ~ heard the voice of the
harpers harping with their hqrps,' and
al saw them that had gotten 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 tigurative. Then
! say, prove It. l do not know how
much of it is literal, and how much is
figurative. Who can say but that from
some of the precious woods OF earth and
heaven there may not be made iustru-
ments of celestial accord. Iu that wor-
ship David may take the harp, and Hab-
akkuk the shigionoth; and when the
great multItudes shall, following their
own incliGations, take up instruments
sweeter than Mozart ever fingered, or
Schumann ever dreamed of, or Beetho-
ven ever wrote for, let all heaven make
ready for the burst of stupendous min
strelsy, and the roll of the
ETERNAL ORCHESTRA!
Further: 1t will be an authoritative
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 would not have made
so great mistake as TO suppose that
heaven is fully inaugurated. FestaI
choruses on earth last only a short while.
The famous musical convocation at Dus-
seldorf 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
1.-the new song If the glorified in
habitants recount past deliverances, they
will also enkiudle at glories to come. If,
at 8 clock, when the church opened,
you had taken the few people who were
scattered through 1t as the main audi
ence, you would not have made so great
q mistake rs if you supposed 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 get 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 10 be saved. All Eng
land is yet to be saved. All America is
vet to be saved. All the world is yet TO
be saved. After that there may be
other worlds to conquer. I do not know
but that every star that glitters in our
nights is an inhabited world, and that
from all those spheres mighty host are
10 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.
l have sometimes thought that all the
millions OF earth that go into glory are
but u very small colony compared with
the influx from the whole universe. God
could build a heaven large enough not
only for the universe, but for
TEN THOUSAND UNIVERSES.
l do not know just how it will be, but
this l know, that heaven is to be con-
stnntly augmented; aud that the song of
glory is rising higher and higher, and the
procession is being multiplied. If heaven
sang when Abel went up-the first soul
that ever left earth for glory-how must
!, sine uOp when souls 90 IN in f1opks