The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1890-10-02
NEW SONG OF HEAVEN.
Dr.. Talmage's Description of Celestial
Melodies.
Preached ut the Academy of Music,
Brooklyn, N. Y.
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W, o.
Nearly oil the cities of Europe and Amor
ica have conservatories Of music and asSoci-
ations whose object it is by voice and instru-
mont to advance the art of sweet sounds. On
Thursday night Exeter Hall, of London, used
to rcsound with the music of flrst-class per-
formers, who gave their services gratuitously
to the masses, who came in with free tickets
and huzzaed ut tho entertainment. AT Ber-
lin Mt II o'clock daily the military band, with
sixty or hundred Instruments, discoursesat
the Royal Opera House for the people. On
Easter Sunday in Dresden the boom OF
cannon and tho ringing Of bells bring null
titudcs to tho churches to listen TO tho or
gan peals and tho exciting sounds Of
trumpet and drum. When tho grcat fair
day of Lcipsic comes the bands Of music
from far md near gather in tho street and
bewilder tho Cur with incoSsant playing of
flute and horn, violin and bassoon. At Dus-
seltlorf once n year tho lovers OF music as
semblc and for three or four days wait upon
the great singing festivals, md shout Mt tho
close Of tho Chorusos, and greet tho success
full competitors ns tho prizes nro distributed
cups and vases Of silver and gold. All our
American cities at times rosound with or
chestra and oratorio. Those who can sing
well or play slsillfully upon Instruments ore
excited admirers.
There aro many whose most ccstatic de-
light is 10 DO found in melodies, and all the
splendor Of celestial gates. and oil the lus.
ciouSness Of twelve manner Of fruits, and oil
the rush of floods from under tho throne OF
God would not mako heaven for thcm II
there wcro no great and transporting bar-
monies. Passing along our streets in tho
hour Of worship you hear tho voice OF sacred
melody, although YOU do not onter tho
building. And passing along tho street of
heaven we hear, from tho tcmplcof God and
tho Lamb, the breaking forth of magnificent
jubilatc. We may not yet enter in among
tho favored throng, but God will not deny us
the pleasure of standing whilo on tho out
side to hear. John listened to il q great
while ago, and "thcy sang new song"
Let mono aspire 10 that blessed place who
have no love for this exercise, for although
it is many ages since tho thrones worc set,
and tho harps wcro strung, there has been 10
cessation in tho song, excepting once for
about thirty minutes; and, judging from tho
glorious things now transpring i'll Gods
world, and tho ever accumulatng triumphs
of tho Messiah, that was tho last half hour
that heaven will ever be silent.
Mark the fact that this was new song.
Sometimes ! have in church been floatel
our people seemed to mingle their voices,
and have, in the glow OF my emotions, said:
''Surcly this is music good enough for
heaven" Indeed, I do not believe that
.Luther's Hymn" "Coronation," or "Old
Hundred" or 'Mount Pisgah" would sound
i'll if spoken by sainted lips or thrummcd
from seraphic harps. There are many Of our
fathers and mothers in glory who would be
slow to shut heavens gate against these old
time harmonies. But this we are told is O
new song. Some Of our greatest anthems
and chorals are compositions from other
tunes-tho sweetest parts Of them gathered
up into tho harmony; and havo
sometimes thought that this ''ncw
song" may DO partly made up Of
sweet strains Of curthly music mingled in
new song. This do know. that in sweetnos
ana power it will DO something that tho ear
never heard. All tho skill of tho oldest harp
crs Of hcavcn will be flung into it. All tho
love of Gods heart will ring from it, In it's
cadences tho floods will clnp their hands, and
it will drop with tho sunlight of everlasting
day and breathe with odors from tho bios
SONS of the treo of life. "a new song"-just
madc for heaven.
Many earthly songs arc written by COM
posers just for tho purpose of making tune,
and tho land Is flooded with noto books in
which really valuable tunes aro the cxcep.
lion. But onco IN while q man is wrought
up by some great spectacle, or moved by
come terrible agony, or transported by somc
exquisite gladuesS and he sits down to writo
a tune or O hymn in which every noto or
every word is spark dropped from the forgo
OF his own burning emotions. So Mendels-
sohn wrote, and so Beethoven, and so Charles
Wesley. Cowper, depressed with misfol-
tunes until almost insane, resolved on suicide,
and asked the cab driver to take him to q
certain place where he expected to destroy
his own life. The cab driver lost his way,
ard Cowper began to think Of his sin, and
went back to his home, and sat down and
wrote:
God moves In mysterious way
His wonders to perform;
Ho plants HIS footsteps In the sea
And rides upon the storm.
Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take;
The clouds you 30 much dread
Arc big with mercy and shall break
In blessings on your head.
Mozart composed his own requiem an:l
faid 10 his daughter Emily, "Play that"
And while Emily was playing tho requiem
Mozarts soul went up on the wave Of his
Pwn 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 to
do, but Christ in memory Of cross and
.Hrown, of manger aud throne, Of earth an.
I oaven, and wrought upon by tho raptures
of tho great eternity poured this from His
heart, made it for the armies Of heaven to
jhout in celebration Of victory, for worship
crS to chant in their temple services, for
l,ai p hOou n
ling in the house of many mansions. 1t a
now tune be started in church there is only
hero and there O person who can sing it.
1t is some time before tho congregation
,arns q new tune. But not so with tho
new song Of heaven. The children who
won't up to-day from the waters Of tho
GanScs are now singing it. That Christian
man or woman who few minutes ago
departed from this very erect has joine1
it. All know it-thoso by tho gates, those
Oh The river bank, those In the temple. Not
feeling their way through it, or halting or
going back, as il they never before had sung
it, but with full, round voice thoy throw
their soul into this new song. If some Sab.
bath day few notes Of that anthom shoGll
travel down the air VIC could not sing it. No
catch it trill. No lip could announce
its sweetness. Translixcd, lost enchanted,
dumb, wo could not hear 1.-THE fainteSt note
of the now song. Yet whilo speak heavens
cathedral quaies unlcr it, and soas of glory
boar it from beach 10 beach, and ten thou
sand times ten thousand, and thousands Of
thousands slug 1.-THE new song"
Further, it lsa commomoratiyeS song. We
nre distinctly told that it makes reference
to past deliverancos. Oh, how much have
they to sing about. They sing of the dark
uess through which an earth thoy passed..