News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-09-18

while | speak heavens cathedral quakes
under it, and seas of glory bear it from
beach to beach, and ten thousand times
ten thousand and thousands OF thou
sands sing 1.-THE new song"
Further, it is a commemorative song.
We are distinctly told that it makes
reference to past deliverances. Oh,
how much have they to sing about!
They sing of the darkness through
which on earth they passed, and it is
night song. That one was killed at
Yorktown. and with him it is battle
song. That one was imprisoned for
Christ's sake, and with him 1t is
prison song. That was a Christian
sailor boy that had his back broken on
the ships halyards and with him 1t IS
a sailors song. That one burned at
Smithfeld, and with him it is lire
song. Oh, how they will sing of floods
waded, of fires endured, of persecution
suffered of grace extended Song OF
hall song of sword song OF hot
leadl song of axl As when the organ
pipes peal out some great harmony
there comes occasionally the sound OF
the tremulante, weeping through the
cadences adding exquisiteness to the
performances, SO amidst the stupen-
dous acclaim of the heavenly worship
ers shall come tremulous membranes
of past endurance, adding a sweetness
and glory to the triumphal strain. 80
the glorified mother will sing of the
Il l. IL Inn on
throned spirit from the almshouse will
sing of a lifetime of want. God may
wipe away all tears, but not the menu
ory of the grief that started them!
1T WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY HARPs.
Further, it will be an accompanied
song. Some have a great prejudice
against musical instruments, and even
among those who like theis there is an
idea that they are Unauthorized. love
the cymbals, for Israel clapped them in
triumph at the Red Sea. | love the
harp, for David struck it in praising
the Lord l love the trumpet, for we
are told that it shall wake the dead.
love all stringed instruments and Or
cans. for God demands that we shall
praise him on stringed instruments and
organs. There is in such music much
to suggest the higher worship, for read
that when he had taken the book the
four-and twenty elders fell down be-
fore the Lamb, having every one of
them ''harps," and Il heard the voice
of the harpers harping with their
harps," and II saw them that had got
ten 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 figuratite. Then
/ say prove it. l do not know how
much of it is literal, and how much of
it is figurative. Who can say but that
from some of the precious woods OF
earth and heaven there may not be
made instruments OF celestial accord2
In that worship David may take the
harp and Habakkuk the shigionoth,
and when the great multitudes shall,
following their own inclinations, 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 it will be an anticipative
song. Why, my friends, heaven has
hardly begun yet. If you had taken
the opening piece of music today for
the whole service you would not have
made so great mistake as to suppose
| that heaven is fully inaugurated. Fes-
tai choruses on earth last only a short
while The famous musical convoca-
| ton at Dusseldorf 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" Ifthe gloritied
inhabitants recount past deliverances
they will also enkindie at glOries to
come. If at o'clock, when the church
opened you had taken the few people
who were scattered through it as the
main audience you would not have
made so great a mistake as if you sup
posed that the present population of
heaven are to be its chief citizenship.
Although millions are already there,
the inhabitants are only handful COM
pared with the future populations. All
China is vet to be saved. All India is
yet to be saved All Bo-neo is yet to
be saved. All Switzerland is yet to be
saved All Italy is yet to be saved. All
Spain is vet to be saved. All Russia is
yet to be saved. All France is yet to
be saved. ALI England is yet to be
saved. All America is yet to be saved.
All the world is yet to be saved. After
that there may be other worlds to con-
uuer. do not know but that every
star that glitters in our nights is an in
habited world, and that from all those
spheres almighty host are to march into
our heaven. There will be no gate to
keep them out. We do not want to
keep them out. Wo will not want to
keep them out. God will not want to
keep them out.
4 HEAVEN LARGE ENOUGH FOR THE
UNIVERSE.
I have sometimes thought that all
the millions Of earth that go into glory
are but o. very small colony compared
with tho influx from tho whole uni
verse. God could build heaven large
ENOUGH not only for the universe, but
for ten thousand universes. 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 u
heaven sung when Abel went up-th-
first soul that ever left earth for glory
how must it sing now when souls
go up in flocks from all Christendom,
hour by hour and moment by moment
Our happy gatherings on earth are
chilled by the thought that soon we
must separate Thanksgiving and
Christmas days come, and the rail trains
flying thither are crowded. Glad re
unions take place. Wehaye a time OF
great enjoyment. But soon it is good
by" in the hall, ''good-by' at the door,
''good-by" on the street, 'good-by' at
the rail train, ''good-by" at the steam
boat wharf. We meet in church. 1t
is good to be here. But soon the
doxology will be sung, the benedlction
pronounced, and the audience Will be
gone. But there are no separations, NO
good-bys in heaven. At the door OF
the house of many mansions no good
bvs At the Daarly gate no good -Dy.