Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-09-25


durance, adding a sweetness and glory to
the triumphaI strain. So the glorifed
mother will sing of the cradle that death
ROBBED: and the enthroned spirit from the
alms-house will sing Of lifetime Of want
God may wipe away all tears, but not
the memory OF the grief that started them!
Further: 1t will be an accompanied song.
Some have great prejudice against musi-
cal Instruments; and even among those
who like them there Is an idea that they
arc 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. 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 1 read that when he had taken
the book. the our-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 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 fgurative. Then l say, prove
It. do not know how much Of it 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
Habakkuk the shigionoth; and when the
great multitudes shall. following their own
inclinations, take up instruments sweetcr
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, 1t VIII be anticipative song.
Why, my friends, heaven has hardly begun
yet. II 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 inauguratcd.
Festal choruses on earth last only a short
while. The famous musical conyocation 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 If
the glorifed Inhabitants recount past de-
liverances, they will also cnkindlc at
glories to come. II, at nine O'Clock. when
the church opened, you had taken the few
people who were scattered through it rs
the main audiance, you would not have
made so great mistake as II 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 Il 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 ba 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 conquer. l
do not know but that every star that gilt
tiers in our nights is an inhabited world and
that from all those spheres Il 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.
have sometimes thought that all the
millions of earth that go into glory are but
very small colony compared with the in
Hux from the whole universe. God could
build heaven large enough not only for
the universe, but for ten thousand uni
verses. l do not know just how ii will be-
but this know, that heaven Is to be con-
stantIy augmented: and that the song Of
glory is rising higher and higher, and the
procession is being constantly multiplied.
III heaven sang when Abel went up-thc
first soul that ever left earth for glory--how
must II sing now when souls 90 up in nocllS
from all Christendom, hour by hour, and
moment by moment.
Our happy gatherings on earth are chilled
by the thought that soon we must scpcrate
Thanksgiving and Christmas days come
and the rail trains flying thither are
crowded. Glad reunions take place. We
have time OF great enjoyment. But soon
II Is 'good-bye' In the hall, '.good-byc" at
TT G door, goodbye" on the street, good
bye at the rail train, "good-bye" at the
steamboat wharf. We meet in church. 1t is
good to be here. But soon the doxology
will be sung, the benediction pronounced,
and the audience will be gone But there
are no separations, no good-byes In heaven.
Al the door OF the house of many mansions
no goodbye. At the pearly gate, no good
bye. The song will be more pleasant, be-
cause we are always to sing 1t. Mightier
song as our other friends come in. Mightier
song as other garlands are set on the brow
OF Jesus. Mightier song as Christ's glories
unfold.
II the first day we enter heaven we sing
we'll, the next day we sing better. Song an
ticipative of more delight, Of more love, OF
more triumphs. Always something new to
hear, something new to see. Many good
people suppose that We should see heaven
the first day we get there. No. You can
not see London In two weeks. You can not
see Rome In six weeks You cannot see
Venice in month. You can not see the
great city Of the New Jerusalem in a day.
No; it 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 il
new. The streets new! The temple new!
The Joy new! The song new.
stayed week at Niagara Falls, hoping
IL.
But on the last day they seemed newer and
more lmcomprehensible than on the first
day. Gazing on the infinite rush of celestial
splendors. where 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, 1.-THE wrath to come!' 1.-THE
wrath to come!' Today lift up my hands
and looking toward the great future cry:
The JOY to come!' THE bliss to GOMEZ"
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-
terins into it! Oh. to stand a thousand
years listening to the enchanting music of
heaven, and then to find out that tho harm
ers are only tuning their harps
Finally, I remark, that IL it will be
unanimous song. There will, no doubt, be
some to lead, but all will be expected to
join. 1t will be grand congregational sing
ing. All the voices of the redeemed! Grand
music 1t will be when that new song arises.
Luther sings It. Charles Wesley sings IT,