Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-09-19

sake, and with him il 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 ar
Smithfeld, and with him it is a fire song.
Oh! how they will sing of floods waded, OF
fires endured, OF prosecutions suffered, of
grace extended Song OF hail Song Of sword.
Song Of hot leadl Song OF axel As waen
the organ pipes peal out some great har-
mony there comes occasionally the sound or
the tremulante weeping through the caden-
ces, adding exquisitsneAs to the perform
anceS so amid the stupendous acclaim of
the heavenly worshipers shall come tremu-
lous membranes of past endurance, add
ing O sweetness and glory 10 the triumDhal
strain. 80 the gTorified mother will sing of
the cradle that death robbed, and the en-
throned spirit from the almhouse will sing
OF lifetime of want. God may wipe away
all the tears but not the memory OF tia
grief that started them!
Further, it will be an accompanied song.
Some have O great prejudice against musical
instruments; and even among those who like
them there is an idea that they are unauthor-
lied. / love the cymbals, for Israel clapped
them in triumph at the Red Sea. love the
harp, for David struck it in praising the
Lord. I love the trumpet, for we are told
that it shall awake the dead. / love all
stringed instruments and organs 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 foil down before
the Lamb, having every one Of them ''harps,"
and II heard the voice of the harpers harp
ing with their harps" and Il saw them that
had gotten the victory from the beast stand
ing on the sea Of glass, having the harps of
God"
Yes, the song is to be accompanied. You
say that all this is figurative. Then | say
prove it. do not know how much Of il
literal and how much of it is fgurative
Who can say but that from some of the
precious woods of earth and heaven there
may not be made instruments Of celestial &C
cord? 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 Schu-
mann 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 orchestral
Further, it will be an anticipative song.
Why, my friends, heaven has hardly begun
yet. If 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.
Postal choruses on earth last only short
while. The famous musical convocation at
Dusseldorf ended with the forth day. Our
holidays last only eight or ten days; but
heaven, although singing for 50 many years,
has only just begun "the new song" II the
glorified Inhabitants recount past deliver
ances they will also enkinde at glories to
come. II at 8 o'clock, when the church
opened you had taken the few people
main audience you would not have made
SO great a mistake as II you supposed that
the present population Of heaven are to be its
chief citizenship. Although millions are al
ready there, the inhabitants are only hand
full compared with the future populations
All China is yet to be saved. Ali India is yet
TO be saved. All BorneO 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
yet to be saved. Ali America is yet to be
saved. All tho world is yet to be saved.
After that there may be other worlds to con-
quer. do not know but that every star that
glitters 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 We will not want
to keep them out. God will not want to
keep them out.
l have sometimes thought that all the mil
lions of earth that go into glory are but q
very small colony compared with the influx
from the whole universe. God could build
heaven large enough not only for tho uni
verse but for 10, 900 universes. do not know
just how it will be, but this I know-that
heaven is TO be constantly augmented, and
that the song of glory is rising higher and
higher and the procession is being multi
piled. 1t heaven sang when Abel went up
the first soul that ever left for glory-how
must it sing now when souls go up in hocks
from all Christendom, hour by hour and mo-
ment by moment?
Our happy gatherings earth are chilled
by the thought that soon we must separate
Thanksgiving and Christmas days come, and
the rail trains flying thfther are crowded.
Glad reunions take place. We have a TINA
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 steamboat
wharf. We meet in church It is good to
be here. But soon the doxology will be
sung, the benedicton pronounced, and the
separations, no good-bys in heaven. At the
door of the house Of many mansions no
good-bys At the pearly gate no good-bys.
The song will be more pleasant because we
are always to sing it. Mightier song as our
other friends come in. Mightier song as
0Lner garlands are set on the brow OF Jesus.
Mightier song rs Christs glories unfold.
I stayed week at Niagara Falls, hoping
thoroughly to understand it and appreciate
it. But ON the last day it seemed newer and
more incomprehensible than on the first day.
Gazing on the infinite rush of celestial splen-
doris 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 sor-
rows of the lost, used to lift up their hands
and shout The wrath to conner 1.-THE
wrath to comer' To day I lift up my
hands, and looking toward the great future