Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-09-08
OF MUSIC IN HEAVEN.
THE TOPIC OF DR.. T. DE VII !
TALMAGe'S SUNDAY SERMON.

Wonderful Discourse. Imbued with
Living Faiti, in the GIories That VIII
Re Celebrated in. the Home OF the
BIest i'm the Lambs New Song.
BROOKLYN. Sept 7.-Dr. Talmage's
sermon for today was glowing descrlp-
ton of the melodies of the Celestial
land His text was. And they sang
new song. Rev. V, 8. Following is
the sermon.
Nearly all the cities of Europe and
America have Conservatives OF music
and associations whose object it Is, by
voice and instrument. to advance the
art of sweet sounds. On THURSDAY
nights Exeter hall of London used TO
resound with the music of first class
performers. who gave their services
gratuitously to the masses, who came
in with free tickets and huZZaed at the
entertainment. At Berlin, at IL o'clock
daily, the military band, with sixty or
a hundred instruments, discourses at
the royal opera house for the people.
On Easter Sunday in Dresden the
boom of cannon and the ringing
of bells bring multitudes to the
churches to listen to the organ 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
bewilder the ear with incessant playing
of flute and horn, violin and bassoon.
At Dusseldorf. once a year, the lovers
of music assemble and for three or
four days wait upon the great singing
festivals and shout at the close of the
choruses. and greet the successful COM
petitors as the prizes are distributed
cups and vases of silver and gold. All
our American cities at times resound
with orchestra and oratorio. Those
who can sing well or play sl&illfully up
on Instruments are greeted with vocifera-
ton and garlanded by excited admirers.
THE ECSTATIC DELIGHTS OF MUSIC.
There are many whose most ecstatic
delight is to be found in melodies, and
all the splendor of celestial gates, and
all the lusciOusness of twelve man
ner of fruits, and all the rush of floods
from under the throne of God would
not make a heaven for them if there
we're no great and transporting harmo-
| aies. 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
| he streets of heaven we hear from the
7eInple of God and the Lamb the
| breaking forth of magnificent jubilate.
! We may not yet enter in among the
! favored throng, but God will not deny
| us the pleasure of standing while on
the outside to hear. John listened to
! it a great while ago, and ''they sang a
new song"
Let none aspire to that blessed place
who have no love for this exercise,
for although it is many ages since the
| thrones were set and the harps were
! strung there has been no cessation in
the song. excepting once for about
thirty minutes, and judging from the
glorious things now transpiring in Gods
world. and the ever accommodating tri-
jumps of the Messiah, that was the last
half hour that heaven will ever be
silent
! Mark the fact that this was a new
song. Sometimes | have in church
been foated away upon some great
choral, in which all our people seemed
to mingIe their voices, and [ have III
the glow of my emotions said: ''Surely
this is music good enough for heaven
Indeed | do not believe that ''Luther'S
HYMN" or Coronation, or colo
Hundred, or Mount Pisgah" would
sound i'll if spoken by sainted lip:
or thrunmed 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 new song. Some
of our greatest anthems and chOral
are compositions from other tunes
sweetest parts of them gathered up into
the harmony; and l have sometimes
though that this new song" may bt
partly made up of sweet strains O
earthly music mingled in eterna
choral But it will, after all, be a new
song This | do know, that in sweet
ness and power it will be something
that ear never heard All the skill O
the oldest harpers of heaven will b,
flung into it. All the love of God
heart will ring from it. In its cadence
the floods will clap their hands, and i
will drop with the sunlight of everlast
inc day and breathe with odors from
the blossoms of the tree of life. 81
new song"-just made for heaven
HOW THE GREAT COMPOSERS WROTE
Many earthly songs are written b.
composers just for the purpose of max
ing tune, and the land is flooded witt
note books in which really valuabl
tunes are the exception. But once i
a while a man is wrought up by som
great spectacle, or moved by some ten
rible agony, or transported by some e1
quisite gladness and he sits down t
: write a tune or hymn, in which ever
r note or every word is a spark droppe
from the forge of his own burning emo
lions. So Mendelssohn wrote and S
: Beethoven and so Charles Wesley
Cowper, depressed with misfortune
] until almost insane, resolved on su
eide. and asked the cab driver to tax
him to a certain place where he e.
pected to destroy his own life. Th
cab driver lost his way, and Cowpe
began to think of his sin and weI
back to his home and sat down an
wrote:
Il God moves in mysterious way
His wonders to perform;
Z He plants his footsteps in the sea,
And rides upon the storm
II We fearful saints, fresh courage take;
q The clouds you much dread
3 Are big with mercy, and shall break
/ In blessings your head
Mozart composed his own requie1
and said to his daughter Emily, 'Pl
= that" and while Emily was playing t
requiem Mozarts soul went up on t
wave of his own music into glo1
Emily looked around, and her faith
was dead.
y HEAVENS NEW SONG.
This new song of heaven was
re composed because heaven had nothl
else to do, but Christ, in memory
cross and crown, of manager and thro1
of earth and heaven, and wrought up