The Opelousas courier., 1890-11-01

ing with their harpsr and II saw them that
had gotten the victory from the beast stand
ing on the sea of glass, having the harps of
| God
Yes, the is to be accompanies. You
say that ali this is fgurative. Then I say
prove it. I do not know how much oft is
literal and how much of it is figurati7e.
Who can say but that from some of the
precious fvoods Of earth and heaven there
may not be made instr1 1lents Of celestial ac-
| cord9 In that worship DAVID may take the
harp, and Habakkuk the shigionott and
when the great multitudes shall, following
their own ineiinations. take up instruments
sweeter than Mozart ever fingered, or Schu.
mann ever. dreamed of, Or Beethoven ever
| wrote for, let all heaven make ready for the
burst of stupandous ,ninstrelsy AMI the roll
of the eternal orchestra
Further. it will be al a~nticipatiys song.
Why, my friends. heaven has hardly begun
vet. Il you had taken the opening piece of
music to-day for the whole service you
would not have made 50 great a mistake as
to suppose that heag en is fully ~inaugurated.
Festal choruses on earth last only a short
while. The famous musical convocation at
Dusseldorf ended with the forth day. Our
holidays last only eight or ten days; but
heaven, although singing for SO many years,
has only just begun the new song" # the
glorified inhabitants recount past deliver
| anC2E LlcY VIII alSU CHhtLAtG dU HNCIl re ~
come. 1t at 9 o'clock, when the church
opened, you had taken the few people
who were scattered through 1t rs Che
main audience. you would not have made
% great q mistake as IL you supposed thai
the present population Of heaven are to belt
chief citizenship, Although millions are al
ready there, the inhabitants are only a hand
full compared with the future populations
All China is yet to be saved. All India is ya
to be saved. All Borneo is yet to be saved
All Switzerland is yet to be saved. All Ital5
is ret to be saved. All Spain is yet TO be
France is yet TO be saved. All England is
yet TO be saved. All America is yet to be
saved. All the world is vet to be saved.
After that there may be other worlds to con
qusr. 4 do not know but that every star that
Cutters in our nights il al Inhabited world.
and that from all those spheres n mighty
host are to march into our heaven. There
will be no gate to keep them out, We do not
want to keep them ont. We viii not want
to keep them ont. God will not want to
keep them out.
have sometimes thought that all the mil
lions of earth that go iuto gierv are but a
very small colony compared with the influx
! from the whole universe. God could buiid a
heaven large enough not only for the uni
verse but for 10, 900 uniyerses. / do not know
just how it will be, hut this | ~know-that
heaven is to be constantly augmented, and
that the song Of glory is rising higher anil
higher and the procession is being multi
pliad. II heaven sang when Abel went up
the first soul that ever left for glory-hew
must it sing now when souls go UP In 1ocks
from all Chrisfendoin, hour by hour and mo-
ment BY nlotnents
Our happy gatherings on earth are chilled
by the Thought that soon we must separate.
Thanksgiving aud Christmas days come and
the rail trains flying thitheT are crowded.
L Had reTfniaas taxa p1ano AZ haya n TINA
of great enjoyment, But soon it is Good
by in the hall, 'Good-bya at the door.
.Good-hy' on the street, t5Good-by'' at the
rail train, Good by at the steamboat
wharf. We meet in church. It is good to
be here. But soon the doxology will be
sung, the benediction -pronouncad, and the
audience will be gone. Blu there are no
| separations, no good-iyys in heaven. AT the
door Of the house Of many mansions no
good-bys, At the psaFly gate no good-bys.
The sons will be more pleasant because we
are always to sing it, Mighfier song as our
other friends come in. Miahtier song rs
other gariallds are set on The brow of Jesus.
Mightier song rs Christ's giories untold.
/ stayed a week at Niagara Falls, hoping
thoroughly TO understand 1t and appreciate
il. But on the last day it seemed newer and
more iuceinprehensible than on the first day.
Gazing on the infinite rush OF celestial splen-
dors. whers the oceans of delight meet and
/ DOHI t0H1tlJGISIS ItlSp GIE GfGab uSisIE III SUNa E
now soon will we exhaust the songs Never
Never,
The old preachers, in describing the sor-
rows of the losf, used to lit up their hands
and shout. Tine wrath to GOMEZ .The
wrath 10 eemsffi To-day | lift up my
hands, and looking toward the great future
cry, .fFhe joy toeoneEs sThe bliss to comet
Oh. to wander on the hanks of the bright
, river, AMI yet to feel that a little further
down we shall find still brighter floods en-
teriBg into it Oh, 10 stand q thousand
years, listening to tue enchanting music of
heaven, aud then to find out that the harp
ers are oaly turning their harfs.
Finally, / remark that it will be a nnan-
imous song. There will, no doubt, be some
to lead. but all will be expected to join. It
will be grand congregational singing. Ali
the sweet voices of the redeemed Grand
music il will be when that now song arises.
| Luther sings it. Charles Wesley sings it.
Lowell Mason sings it. Our voices now ma
be harsh and our ears uncultivated, but, our
Threats cleared at last and orr capacities en-
larged, you mud [ will not he ashamed to
utter our voices as loudly as any of them.
Those nations that have always been
distinguished tor their capacity in song
will lift up their voices in that melody
Those who have hal much opportunity 20
| hear the Germans sing will know what
idea I mean 10 give when ] say that the
| great German nation will pour their deep,
1 full voices into the new song. Everybody
knows the natural gift Of the African for
singing. No singing Oh this continent
like that OF the cosored churches In the
South. Everybody going TO Richmond Or
to Charleston wants 10 hear tho Africans
sing. But when not only Ethiopia, but all
that continent of darkness. lifts up its hands,
AMI all Africa pourE her great volume of
voice into the new ~scDg-thas will be music
for You. Added TO this are all the sixteen
thousand millions of children that are esti-
matei to hare gone into glory, and the host
OF Young and old that hereafter shall people
The earth and inhahit the stars.
Oh the new song. Gather it all up Null
tiplv it with every sHeetnessf Four into ID
| every harrnonyi Cgowfs # with every glad
nesss Belt it Fith every splendorl Fire II
with every gloryi Toss il TO The greatest
height of majesty Roll it to the g~randest
cYcIe of eternitv.-and then you have but
the faintest conception Of what John exs
perienceJ. when, amidst the anagpifcence of
/ anocalyptic vision, he heard 1.-THE n5w song
God grant that at last we may all sing it.
But IL we do not sing the praise of CHRIST
upon earth NE will never sing it IN heaven.
BE sure that your hearts srs now attuned
for The heavenly worship There is a cathe-
draI IN Europe with an organ at each end.
Organ answers organ, and the music waves
backward and forward with iDdescTibable
effect. Well, my friends, the time will come
when earth and heaven will be but different
parts of one eTes6 accord. 1t will be Joy here
and JOY theref Jesus here and Jesus therel
Trumpet to trumpet. Organ TO crgani Hal
ielujaI to hal1eluiah.
Al Regiment Of Flat Noses.
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