The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-09-17
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sino it-''the new song"

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how much have they to sing about.
They sing of the darkness through which
on earth they passed, and it is a night
song. That one was killed at York
town, and with HIM it is battle song.
That one was imprisoned for Chrlst's
sake, and with him it is prison song.
That was Christian sailor-boy that had
his back broken on the ships halyards,
and With him it is a sailors song. That
one burned at Smithlield, and with him
it is a fire song. Oh! how they will
sing of floods waded, Of fires endured, of
persecution suffered, Of grace extended!
Song of hill Song of sword! Song of
hot lead! Song of axe! AS When the
organ-pipes pealed out some great har-
mony, there comes occasionally the
sound of the tremulante, weeping
through the cadences, adding exquisite
ness to the performances, so amidst the
stupendous acclaim Of the heavenly
worshipers shall come tremulous re-
membranes ofpast endurance, adding
sweetness and glory to the triumphal
train. So the glorifed mother will sing
of the cradle that death robbed; and the
enthroned spirit from the aims house
will sing Of a lifetime of want. God may
wipe away all tears, hut not the memory
of the grief that started them!
Further: 1t will be an accompanied
song. Some have great prejudice against
musical instruments; and even among
those who like them, there is an idea
that they are unauthorized. I love Gym
balls, for Israel clapped them in 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. I love all stringed
Instruments and organs; for God de-
mands that we shall praise Him on
strinsed instruments and organs. There
is in such music much to suggest the
higher worship; for I read that when he
had taken the book, the four-and-twenty
elders fell down before the Lamb. hay
ing everyone Of them ''harps," and II
heard the voice Of the harpers harping
| with their harps," and ''Isaw 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 igurat!ve. Then
Isay, prove It. ] do not know how much
! oft IS literal, AM now much oft is tlgura-
tive. Who can say but that from some
of the'precious.words Of earth andheaven
there may not be made instruments OF
celestial accord. In that worship David
may take the harp, and Habakkuk the
shisionoth; and when the great multi
tudes shall, following their own inclina-
tions, 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: 1t will be an antlcipatiYe
song. Why, my friends, heaven has
hardly begun yet. If you had taken the
| opening piece Of music to-day for the
whole service, you would not have made
so great a mistake as to suppose that
heaven is fully inaugurated. Festal
choruses on earth last only short while.
The famous mnsical convocation at Dus-
seldoaf 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 re-
| count past deliveranees, they will also
enkindle at glories to come. If, at nine
O'Clock, when the church opened, you
| had taken the few people who were scat
tered through it as the audience, you
would not have made SO great mistake
| as if you supposed that the present pop
ulation of heaven are to be its chief cltl-
| zenship. Although millions are already
! there, the inhabitants are only a hand
full 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.
AL 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
! mighty host are to march into our heay-
en-. There will be no gate 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 heaven large enough not
| only for the universe, but for 10000
unlverses. 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 multiplied.
| IF heaven sang when Abel went up-the
first soul that ever left earth for glory
| how must it sing now when souls go up
| in hocks from all Chistendom, hour by
hour. and moment by moment.
Our happy gatherings on earth are
chilled by the thought that soon we must
seperate. Thanksgiving and Christmas
days come, and the rail trains flying thlth-
er are crowded. Glad reunions take
place. We have a time Of grand enjoy
ment. But soon it is goodbye in the
hall" goodbye" at the door, good
bye' on the street, goodbye" at the
rail train, goodbye" 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. At the doc. of the house of
many mansions no goodbye. At the
searlY-gate, no goodbye. The song will
be more pleasant, because VIC are always
to sing it. Mightier song as other
friends come in. Mightier song as other
oarlands are set on the brow of Jesus.