Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-08


thing new to hear, something new to see.
Many good people suppose that we shall
see heaven the first day we get there.
No! You can not see London in two
weeks. You can not see Rome in six
weeks. You can not see Venice in
month. You can not see the great city
of the New Jerusalem in day. No; it
will take all eternity to see heaven, to
count the towers, to examine the
trophies, to gaze upon the throne, to ses
hierarchs. Ages on ages roll, and yet
heaven is newt The streets newt The
temple newt
THE JOY NEWT THE SONG NEW!
stayed week at Niagra Falls, hop
ing thoroughly 10 understand and ap-
preciate il. But on the last day they
seemed newer and more incomprehensi-
bic than on the first day. Gazing on the
infinite rush of celestial splendors, where
the oceans of delight meet, and pour
themselves into the great heart of God
how soon will we exhaust the song!
Never Never!
The old preachers in describing the
sorrows OF the lost, used 10 lift up their
hands and shout, "The wrath to comet
1.-THE wrath to come!' To-day lift up
my hands, and looking toward the great
future, cry, 1.-the joy TO come! 1.-The
bliss to comei'' Oh, to wander on the
banks of the bright river, and yet TO feel
that little further down we shall find
still brighter floods entering into it! Oh,
to stand q thousand years listening to
the enchanting music of heaven, and
then to find out that the haTpers are only
tuning their harps.
Finally, l remark, that it will be
unanimous song. There will, no doubt,
be some to lead, but all will be expected
to join. Ii Will be a grand cOngrega-
tional singing. All the sweet voices OF
the redeemed! Grand music it will be,
when that new song arises. Luther
sings it. Charles Wesley sings 1t.
Lowell Mason sings it. Our voices now
may he harsh and our ears uncultivated ,
but, our throats cleared at last, and our
capacities enlarged, you and will not
be ashamed to utter our voices as loudly
as any of them.
Those nations that have always been
distinguished for their capacity in song
will lift up their voices in that melody +.
Those who have had much opportunity
to hear the Germans sing will kno what
idea 1 mean TO give them, when L say
that the great German nation will pour
their deep full voices into the new song.
Everybody knows the natural gift OF the
African for singing. No singing on this
continent like that of the
COLORED CHURCHES IN THE SOUTH.
Every body going to Richmond or to
Charleston wants to hear the Africans
sing. But when not only Ethiopia, but
all that continent of darkness, lifts up
its hands, and all Africa pours her great
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will be music for you. Added to this are
all the sixteen thousand millions of
children that are estimated 10 have gone
into glory, aud the host of young and old
that hereafter shall people the earth and
inhabit the stars.
Oh! the new songi Gather it all up!
Multiply it with every sweetness! Pour
into 1t every harmony! Crown it with
every gladnessl Belt it with every
splendor! Fire it with every glory! Toss
it TO the greatest height of majesty! Roll
it to the grandest cycle of eternity land
then you have but the faiutest conception
of what John experienced when, midst
the magniticence of apocalyptic vision &,
he heard 1.-THE new song!
God grant that at last we may all sing
it. But if we do not sing the praise of
Christ upon earth, we will never sing 1t
in heaven. Be sure that your hearts are
now attuned for the heavenly worship.
There is a cathedral in Europe with an
organ at each end. Organ answers Or
gan, and the music waves backward aud
forward with indescribabls effect. Well 4,
my friends, the time will come when
earth and heaven will be but differ
ent parts of one great accord. 1t will be
joy here and JOY there! Jesus here and
Jesus tbere Trumpet to trumpet!
Organ to organ! Hallelujah to hallelu-
jah! "Uutil the daybreak and the
shadows flee away. turn, my beloved,
and be thou like roe or q young hart
upon the mountains of Betherl'