The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-08
SWEET MUSIC OF HEAVEN
TALMAGE ON THH MELODIES OF
THE CELESTIAL LAND.

Bliss-The New Song Of Heaven a
Commemorative and Anticipative q
One-Its Accompaniment of Musical
Instruments.
BROOKLYN. Sept. 7.-Dr. Talmage's ser
mon for TO day is a glowing description OF
the melodies OF the celestial land His text
was Grew. V. 81 "And they sang new
song" Following is the sermon:
Nearly all the cities of Europe and
America have conservatorles of music, and
associations, whose object It is, by voice
and instrument, to advance the art of sweet
sounds. On Thursday nights, Exeter hall
of London, used 70 resound with the music
Of first-class performers, who gave their
services gratuitously to the masses, who
came in with free tickets, and huzzaed at
the the entertainment. AT Berlin, at IL
o'clock daily. the military band, with sixty
or one hundred instruments, discourses
at the royal opera house for the
people. On Easter Sunday, in Dresden
the boom of cannon and the ringing
OF bells, bring multitudes 10 the churches
to listen to the organ peals. aud the exciting
sounds Of trumpet and drum. When the
great fair day of Leipsic comes, the bands
of music from far and near gather In the
street and bewilder the ear with incessant
playing of flute, and horn, violin and bas-
soon. AT Dusseldorf, once year, the lovers
Of music assemble, and for three or four
days wait upon the great singing festivals,
and shout at the close Of the choruses, and
greet the successful competitors as the prizes
are dlstributed-cups and vases of silver
and gold. All our American cities at times
resound with orchestra and oratorio. Those
who can sing well or play skilfully upon in
struments are greeted with vociferation,
and garlanded by excited admirers.
There are many whose most ecstatic de-
light is to be found in melodies; and all the
splendor of celestial gates, and all the
lusciousness of twelve manner of fruits,
and all the rush of floods from under the
throne of God, would not make a heaven
Tor them If there were no great and
transporting harmonies Passing along our
streets in the hour of worship, you hear the
voice of sacred melody, although you dc
not enter the building. And passing along
the street OF heaven we hear, from the
temple of God and the Lamb, the breaking
forth Of magnificent jubilate. We may
not yet enter In among the favored throng,
but God will not deny us the pleasure OF
standing awhile on the outside to hear.
John listened to It q great while ago, and
they sang Lew song"
Let none aspire to that blessed place who
have no love for this exercise, for although
it is many ages since the thrones were set
and the harps were strung, there has been
no cessation in the song, excepting once for
about thirty minutes; and, Judging from
| the glorious things now transpiring in Gods
world, and the ever-accumulating triumphs
of the Messiah, that was the last half hour
that heaven will ever be silent.
1 Mark the fo ot thaf
| Sometimes | have in church been float d
away upon some great choral, in which al
our people seemed to mingle their voices
and have, in the glow of my emotions
said, Surely this is music good enough fol
heaven. Indeed, do not believe that "Lu-
theirs Hymn" OF Coronation" or soc
Hundred" or mount Pisgah," woulc
sound ill if spoken by slinted lips
or thrummed from seraphic harps. There
are many of our fathers and mothers IL
glory who would be slow to shu
heavens gate against these old-timt
harmonies. But this, we are told, il
new song. Some of our greatest an
| thems and chorals are compositions from
other tunes-the sweetest parts of them
| gathered up into the harmony; and have
| sometimes thought that this 'new song''
may be partly made up of sweet strains OF
earthly music mingled in eternal choral. But
it will, after all, be new song. This do
know, that in sweetness and power it will
be something that ear never heard. All the
skill Of the Oldest harpers of heaven will be
flung into it. Ali the love of Gods heart
will ring from 1t. In its cadences the floods
Will clap their hands, and it will drop with
the sunlight Of everlasting day, and breathe
with odors from the blossoms of the tree OF
life. "a new song"-just made for heaven.
Many earthly songs are written by com
posers just for the purpose of making a
tune; and the land is flooded with note
books, in which really valuable tunes are
the exception. But once in while man
is wrought up by some great spectacle, or
moved by some terrible agony or trans
ported by some exquisite gladness, and be
sits down to write a tune or a hymn, in
which every note or every word is a spark
dropped from the forge of his own burning
emotions. SO Mendelssohn wrote, and so
Beethoven, and so Charley Wesley. Cow
per, depressed with misfortunes until
almost insane, resolved on suicide and
asked the cab-driver to take him to GER
tain place where he expected TO destroy his
own life. The cab-driver lost his way, and
Cowper began to think of his sin, and went
back to his home and sat down and wrote
God moves in a mysterious way,
His wonders to perform;
He plants mis- footsteps in the sea,
Ana rides upon the storm.
"Ye fearful saints fresh courage take.
The clouds you so much dread
Are big with mercy, aud shall break
In blessings on your head"
Mozart composed his own requiem, and
said to his daughter Emily, play that, y
and while Emily was playing the requiem,
Mozart's soul went up on the wave of his
own music into glory. Emily looked around
and her father was dead.
This new song of heaven was not com.
posed because heaven had nothing else 70
do, but Christ, in memory OF cross and
crown, of manger and throne, of earth
and heaven, and wrought upon by ths rap
lures of the great eternity, poured this
from his heart, made it for the armies Of
heaven TO shout in celebration of vic
tory, for worshipers to chant in their temple
services, for the innumerable home circles
OF heaven to sing in the house of many man
sions. Ii a new tune be started In church,
there is only here and there a person that
can sing it.. 1t is some time before the con-
gregatiOn learn a new tune. But not SO
with the new song Of heaven. The children
who went up to-day from the waters Of the
Gsnges are now singing it. That christian
man or woman who, a few minutes ago
departed from this very street, has
joined 1t. All know it those by
the gates, those on the river bank,
those fn the temple. Not feeling their
way through 1t, or halting, or eoing
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
hau fau uo4aa of that antharn Sha,,la