Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-12

we cOulQ not sing IL. NO or
gan could roll it's thunder. No har]
could catch its trill. No lip could an
nounce it's sweetness. TransfiXed, lost
enchanted. dumb, we could not hear it
the faintest note of the new song. Yc
while speak Heavens cathedral quake!
under it, and seas of glory bear it from
beach to beach, and ten thousand time:
ten thousand and thousands of thousands
sing it-''the new song
Further. it is commemorative song
We are distinctly told that it makes ref
erence to past dcliverances. Oh, how
sing of the darkness through which on
earth they have passed, and it is a night
song. That one was killed at Yorktown
and with him it is battle song. Tha,
one was imprisoned for Christ's sake, and
with him it is prison song. That was
a Christian sailor boy that had his back
broken OH the ships halyards, and with
him it is q sailors song. That one
burned at Smithfield. and with him it is
a fire song. Oh, how they will sing of
floods wadcd, of fires endured. of perse-
cution suffered, of grace extended
Song of hail! song of sword! song OF hot
lead! song of ak! AS when the organ
pipes peal out some great harmony there
comes occasionally the sound of the
tremulante, weeping through the ca
dences, adding eXquisiteneSS to the per-
formances, SO amidst the stupcndous ac-
claim of the heavenly wOrshiperS shall
come tremulOus remcmbrances OF past
endurance, adding q sweetness and glory
to the triumphal strain. So the gloriiied
mother will sing of the cradle that death
robbed, and the enthroned spirit from
the almshouse will sing of a lifetime of
want. God may wipe away all tears,
but not the memory OF the grief that
started them!
Further, it will be an accompanied
song. Some have q great prejudice
against musical instruments, and even
among those who like them there is an
idea that they are unauthorized. love
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. love all stringed
instruments and organs, for God de-
mands that we shall praise him on
stringed Instruments and organs. There
is i'm such music much to suggest the
higher worship, for l read that when He
had taken the book tho four-and-t twenty
elders fell down before the Lamb, hav-
ing every one of them ''harps," and 81
heard the voice of the harpers harping
with their harps," and 81 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
l say prove it. / do not know how much
of it is literal. and how much of it is
| tigurative. Who can say but that from
some of the precious woods of earth and
Heaven there may not be made instru-
ments of celestial accord? In that wor-
ship David may take the harp and
Habakkuk the shigionoth, and when the
great multitudcs 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
IE,rchestra.
Further, twill be an antcipative song.
Why, my friends, Heaven has hardly be-
gun yet. If you had taken tho opening
piece of music to-day for the whole serv-
ice you would not have made so great a
mistake as to suppose that Heaven is
fully inaugurated Fcstal chorouses on
earth last only short while. The fam
GUS musical convocation 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
glorified inhabitants recount past deliv-
erances 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 sup
posed that the PRESENT population of
Heaven are to be its chief citizenship.
Although millions are already there, the
inhabitants are only handful compared
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 saved. All
Italy is yet to be saved. All Spain is
yet to be saved. All Russia is vet to be
saved. All France is yet to be 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
glitters in our nights is an inhabited
world, and that from all those spheres a
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 influx from the whole universe. God
could build a heaven large enough not
only for the universe, but for ten thou
| sand universes. do not know just how
it will be, but this know, that Heaven
is to be constantly augmented. and that
the song of glory is rising higher and
higher, and the procession is being multi
piled. If Heaven sung when Abel went
up-the first soul that ever left earth for
glory-how must it sing now when
souls go up in flocks from all over
Christendom, hour by hour and moment
by moment.
Our happy gatherings on earth arc
chilled by the thought that soon we must
separate. Thanksgiving and Christmas
days come, and the rail trains flying
fhith ~ p,.o1vdod Glod rouOinnc l-o