The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-09-19

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never before had sung it. but with full
round voice they throw their soul into
this new song. If some Sabbath day q
few notes of that anthem should travel
down the air. we could not sing 1t. No
organ could roll its thunder. No harp
could catch its trill. No lip could an
nounce its sweetness. Transfixed. lost
enchanted, dumb, we could not hear 1t
the faintest note of the new song.
Yet, while / speak. Heavens cathedral
quakes under it. and seas Of glory bear
1t from beach to beach, and thousand
times ten thousand and thousands OF
thousands sing 1.-THE new song"
Further: It is commemorative song.
We are distinctly told that it makes
reference to past deliverances. o, 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 ii is battle song. That one
was imprisoned for Christ's sake, and
with him it is prison song. That was
a Christian sailor boy that had his back
broken on the ships halyards, and with
him it is a sailors song. That one
burned at Smithfield, and with him 1t is
fire song. o. how they will sing of
floods waded, of fires endured. of perse-
cution suffered, of grace extended! Song
of hail! Song of sword! song of hot lead!
song of axe! As when the organ pipes
peal out some great harmony, there
comes occasionally the, sound of the
tremulante, weeping through the ca
dences, adding exquisiteness to the per-
formances, so amidst the stupendous
acclaim of the heavenly worshipers shall
come tremulous remembrances of past
endurance, adding q sweetness and
glory to the triumphal strain. So the
glorifed mother will sing of the cradle
that death robbed; and the enthroned
spirit from the almshouse will sing of a
lifetime of want. God may wipe away
all tears, but 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
the cymbals, for Israel clapped them in
triumph at the Red sea. love the harp
for David struck it in praising the Lord.
1 love the trumpet, for we are told it
shall wake the deal Hove all stringed
instruments and organs, for God de-
mands that we shall praise him on
stringed instruments and organs There
TO- IN 10 70 "a
higher worship; for read that when He
had taken the book the four and twenty
elders fell down before the Lamb, having
every one of them "harps," and II
heard the voice of the harpers harping
with their harps," and 81 saw them that
had gotten the victory from the beast
standing on the sea Of grass, having the
harps of God"
Yes, the song is to be accompanied.
You say that all this is figurative.
Then, 1 say, prove it. do not know
how much of it is literal and how much
of it is figurativa Who can say but
that from some of the precious woods of
earth and Heaven there may not be
made instruments of celestial accord.
In that worship David may take the
harp and Habakkuk the shigionoth and
when the great multitudes shall, fol-
lowing 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 stu
pendous minstrelsy and the roll OF the
eternal orchestra!
Further: 1t will be an anticipative
song Why, my friends, Heaven has
hardly begun yet II you had taken
the opening piece of music to-day for
the whole service you would not have
made so great mistake as to suppose
that Heaven is fully inaugurated.
Festal choruses on earth last only a
short while. The famous musical con-
vocation at Dusseldorf ended with the
fourth day. Our holidays last only
eight or ten days, but Heaven, al
though singing for so many years, has
only just begun 'the new song" II tho
glorified inhabitants recount past deliv-
erances they will also enkindle atglories
to come.
If at nine 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 mistake as If you supposed
that the present population Of Heaven
are to be its chief citizenship. Although
millions are already there, the inhab-
itants are only handful compared
with the future populations All China
is yet to be saved. All Borneo Is yet to
be saved. All India 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 yet to be
saved. All France is yet to be saved.
All 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 conquer.
I do not know but that every star that
glittcrs in our nights Is an inhabited
world and that from all those spheres a
mighty host are to march into our
Heaven. There will be no gate to keep
them out. We do not want to keep
them out
I 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 ten
thousand universes 1 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 g.ory-how must it sing