Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-09-08

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reference to past deliverances. Oh,
how much have they TO sing about.
They sing of the darkness through
which on earth they passed, and 1t is
night song That one was killed at
Yorktown. and with him it is a battle
song. That one was imprisoned TO,
Christ's sake, and with him it is a
prison song That was a Christian
sailor boy that had his back broken on
the ships halyards, and with him it is
a sailors song That one burned al
Smithfield, and with him it is fire
SOM. 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 ak AS when the organ
pipes peal out some great harmony
there comes occasionally the sound OF
the tremulante, weeping through the
cadences, adding exquisiteness to the
performances, so amidst the stupen
dous acclaim of the heavenly worship
ers shall come tremulOus remembrances
of past endurance, adding a sweetness
and glory to the triumphal strain. Sc
the glorifed mother will sing of the
cradle that death robbed, and the en-
throned spirit from the almshouse will
sing of a lifetime of want. God may
wipe away all tears, but not the mem
ory of the grief that started themi
TT WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY HARPS.
Further, it will be an accompanied
song. Some have a 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 ID
triumph at the Red Sea. L love the
harp, for David struck it in praising
the Lord [ love the trumpet, for we
are told that it shall wake the dead.
love all stringed instruments and or
gans, 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 read
that when he had taken the book the
four and-twenty elders fell down be-
fore the Lamb, having every one OF
them ''harps," and II heard the voice
of the harpers harping with Their
ten 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 figurative. Then
I say prove it, [ do not know how
much of it is literal, and how much OF
it is figurative. Who can say but that
from 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 HabakIzuk the shigionoth,
and when the great multitudes 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 orchestra.
Further, it will be an anticipative
song. Why, my friends, heaven has
hardly begun yet. Ii you had taken
the opening piece of music today for
the whole service you would not have
made so great a mistake as to suppose
that heaven is fully inaugurated- Fes-
| tai choruses on earth last only a short
while. The famous musical convoca-
| ton at Dusseldorf ended with the
fourth day. Our holidays last only
eight or ten days, but heaven, although
singing Tor so many years, has only just
begun 1.-The new song" If the glorified
inhabitants recount past deliverances
! they will also enkindle at glOries to
come. II 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 a handful com
pared with the future populations. All
China is vet 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. AL
Spain is yet to be saved. All Russia is
vet to be saved All France is yet tc
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 con
quer [ do not know but that ever!
star that glitters in our nights is an in
habited world, and that from all those
spheres Almighty host are to march int
our heaven. There will be no gate t.
keep them out We do not want t.
keep them out. We will not want tt
keep them out God will not want t.
keep them out.
A HEAVEN LARGE ENOUGH FOR TIL
UNIVERSE.
/ have sometimes thought that al
the millions of earth that go into glor.
are but q very small colony compared
with the influx from the whole uni
verse. God could build heaven larg
enough not only for the universe, bu
for ten thousand universes. do no
know just how it will be, but this
know, that heaven is to be CONSTANT
augmented, and that the song OF glor
is rising higher and higher, and tn
procession is being multiplied.
heaven sung when Abel went up-th
first soul that ever left earth for glor
how must it sing now when soul
go up in flocks from all Christendon
hour by hour and moment bymoment
Our happy gatherings on earth al
chilled by the thought that soon W
must separate. Thanksgiving an
Christmas days come, and the rail train
flying thither are crowded. Glad II
unions take place. We have time {
great enjoyment. But soon it is ''goot
by in the hall, ''good-by'' at the doc
j, ''good-by" on the street, ''good-by'' g
Y the rail train, ''good-by' at the steam
G boat wharf We meet in church.
G is good to be here. But soon til
r. doxology will be sung, the benedictio
i pronounced, and the audience will
gone. But there are no separations, Il
good-bys in heaven. At the door
II the house of many mansions no gooC
Q bys At the pearly gate no goodb.
i The song will be more pleasant b
, cause we are always to sing it. Mighti'
r song as our other friends come il
Miphtier song as other garlandS are s