Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1890-09-19
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIvINE'S SUN.
DAY SERMON.
"Thc Now Song of Heaven"

ations whose object 1t is by voice and instru-
ment TO advance the art Of sweet sounds. On
Thursday night Exeter Hall, Of London, used
TO resound with the music OF 1rst-class per-
iormers who gave their services gratuitously
70 the masses who came in with free tickets
and huzzaed at the entertainment At Ber-
lin at IL o'clock daily the military band, with
sixty or hundred instruments discoursesa at
The Royal Opera House for the people. On |
Easter Sunday In Dresden the boom OF |
cannon and the ringing Of bells bring null
utudes TO the churches to listen to the or |
gan peals and the exciting sounds Of |
trumpet and drum. When the great fair |
day OF Leipsic comes the bands Of music |
from far and near gather In the street and |
bcwilder the ear with incessant playing Of |
dute and horn, violin and bassoon. At Dus- |
seldorf once a year the lovers OF music as |
semble and for three or four days wait upon
the great singing festivals, and shout at the |
close OF the choruses, and greet the success
full competitors as the prizes are distributed
cups and vases Of silver and gold. All our
American cities at times resound with or
chestra and oratorto. Those who can sing
well or play skillfully upon instruments are
greeted with vociferation and garlanded by
excited admirers.
There are many whose most ecstatic do
Light Is to be found In melodies and all the
splendor OF celestial gates, and oil the lus-
ciouness OF twelve manner-of fruits and oil
the rush Of foods from under the throne OF
God would not make heaven for them II
there were no great and transporting har
monies. Passing along our streets In the
hour Of worship you hear the voice Of sacred
melody, although YOU do not enter the
building. And passing along the street OF
heaven we hear, from the temple Of God and
the Lamb, the breaking forth Of magnificent
jubiiate. We may not yet enter in among
the favored throng, but God will not deny us
tae pleasure Of standing while on the out
side to hear. John listened to It q great
while ago, and ''they sang q new song.n
Let none aspire to that blessed place who
have no love for this exercise for although
1t Is many nges since the thrones wore set,
and tho harps were strung, there has been no
cessation In tho song excepting once for
about thirty minutes; and, judging from the
glorious things now transpiring In Gods
world, and the ever accumulating triumphs
OF the Messiah, that was tho last half hour
that heaven will ever be silent.
Mark the fact that this was now song.
Sometimes l have in church been foatcd
away upon some great choral, in which all
our people seemed TO mingle their voices,
and have, in the glow Of my emotions, said:
Surely this Is music good enough for
heaven Indeed, l do not believe that
.Luthers Hymn" Coronation" or "Old
luhuic cu, VI "OuuU lSphn' WOutu SOunu
III II spoken by sainted lips or thrummed
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 q
new song. Some Of our greatest anthoms
and chorals are compositions from other
tunes-the sweetest parts Of them gathered
up into tho harmony; and have
sometimes thought that this ''new
h. II
sweet strains Of earthly music mingled in
eternal choral. But 1t will, after all, be a
new song. This do know thnt in sweetnss
and power IL will be something that the ear
never heard. All the skill OF the oldest harp
srs Of heaven will be flung into it. ALI tho
love Of Gods heart will ring from 1t. In its
cadences the foods will clap their handS and
10 will drop with the sunlight of everlasting
| day and breathe with odors from tho bios
SONS Of the tree Of life. "A new song"-jass
made for heaven.
Many earthly songs are written by com,
| posers just for the purpose OF making tune,
| and the land is flooded with note books I'm
which really valuable tunes are tho excep.
ton. But once In while man is wrought
up by somc great spectacle, or moved by
some terrible agony, or transported by some
exquisite gladness and he sits down TO write
. tune or q hymn In which every note or
y
OF his own burning emotions. SO Mendeis-
sohn wrote, and SO Beethoven, and 30 Charles
Wesley. Cowper, depressed with misfor-
tunes until almost insane resolved on suicide
and asked the cab driver to tako him 10
certain place where he expected to destroy
bis own life. Tho cab driver lost his way,
snd Cowper began TO think OF h sin, and
went back to his home. and sat down and
wrote:
God moves in a mysterious way
| Ills wonders to perform:
| lie plAnts His footsteps In the sca
And rides upon the storm.
ye fearful saints. fresh courage take;
| The clouds you 90 much dread
| Aro big with mercy and shall break
In blessings on your head.
Mozart composed bis own requiem ana
did to his daughter Emily, "Play that"
And while Emily was playing the requiem
Mozart's soul went up on the wave OF his
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 anil
crown, or manger ana throne, OF earth and
heaven, and wrought upon by the raptures
bt tho great eternity, poured this from His
heart made it for the armies OF heaven to
shout In celebration OF victory, for worship
era to chant in their temple services for
tho innumerable homo circles OF heaven to
sing in the house OF many mansions. liz o
now tune be started in church there is only
here and there person who can sing 1t.
II Is some time before the congregation
earns new tune. But not so with the
new song OF heaven. The children who
went up to-day from tho waters OF the
Ganges are now singing it. That Christian
man or woman who few minutes ago
departed from this very street has joined
IL. Ali know it--thoso by tho gates those
On the river bank, those In the temple. Not
feeling their way through 1t, or halting or
going back, as II they never before had sung
Il, but with q full, round voice they throw
their soul into this new song. IL some Sab.
bath day few notes of that anthem should
travel down the air We could not sing it. No
organ could roll its thunder. No harp could
catch IL trill. No lip could announce
Its sweetness. Transfixed, lost, enchanted,
dumb we could not hear it-the faintest note
Of the new song. Yet while speak heavens
cathedral quakes under 1t, and seas OF glory
bear IL from beach to beach, and ten thou,
sand times ten thousand, and thousands ol
thousands sing it-"the new song"
Further, IL is q commemorative song. We
are distinctly told that it makes a references
10 past deliyerances. Oh, how much have
they 10 sing about. They sing of the dark
ness through which on earth they passed.
and it is a night song. That one was killed
at Yorktown, and with him IL Isl battle
song. That one was imprisoned for Chrlsts
sake, and with him 1t is prison song. That
was Christian sailor boy that had his back
broken on the ships halyards, and with him
tits sailors song. That one burned at
Smithheld, and with him 1t is fire song
OH how they will sing Of floods waded, o.
fires endured, OF prosecutions suffered, OF
Song Of hot lead Song OF axe As when
the organ pipes peal out some great har.
mony, there comes occasionally the sound ol
the tremulante, weeping through the caden'
ces adding exquisitsness to the perform
ances, 90 amid the stupendous acclaim o.