The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-09-18

but with full round voice they throw
their soul into this new song. IL some
sabbath day a few notes of that anthem
should travel down the air, we conld not
sing it No organ could roll its thun-
der, no harp could catch its thrill No
lip could announce its sweetness. Trans
fixed, lost, enchanted, dumb, we could
not hear 1.-THE faintest note of the
new song. Yet while l speak, Heav-
ems cathedral quakes under it, and
seas OF glory bear it from beach to
beach, and ten thousand times ten thou
sand, and thousands of thousands, sing
1.-THE new song"
Further, it is commemorative song.
We were distinctly told that it makes
reference to past delivcrences. Oh,
how much have they to sing about
They sing Of the darkness through
which on earth they passed, and it is
a night song. That one was killed at
Yorktown, and with him it is a battle
song. That one was imprisoned for
Christ's sake, and with him it is a
prison song. That was a Christian
sailor boy that had his back broken on
the ships halyards, and with him it is
sailors song. That ono burned at
Smithfiold, and with him it is fire
song. Oh! how they will sing of floods
waded, Of fires endured, of persecution
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 OCCASION
ally the sound of the tremulante, weep
ing through the cadences, adding ex-
quisi tencss to the performances, so
amidst tho stupendous acclaim OF the
heavenly worshipers shall come tremu-
lous remembrances of past endurance,
adding a sweetnes and glory to the
triumphal strain. So the glorified
mother will sing OF the cradle that
death robbed; and the enthroned spirit
from the alms-house will sing of life
time of want. God may wipe away all
tears, but not the memory of the grief
that started them!
Further: 1t will be an accomplished
song Some have a great prejudice
against musical instruments, and even
among those who like them, there is an
idea that they are unauthorized. Hove
the cymbals, for Israel clapped them in
triumph at the Red Sea. love the harp,
for David struck it in praising the Lord.
| love the trumpet, for wo are told that
it shall wake the dead. l 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 l read that when
He had taken the book, tho fOur-and-
twenty elders fell down before 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 gotten the vic
tory 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 fgurative.
Then l say, prove it. l do not know how
much of it is literal and how much of
it is tigurative. Who can say but that
from some of the precious woods of
earth and Heaven there may not be
mado instruments of celestial accord.
In that worship David may take the
I-dI " anu lldDdh M I'm l4iC lOIIOIh,
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: 1t 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 a 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 hours; but Heaven.
although singing for SO many years, has
only just begun the new song"
If the glorified inhabitants recount
past deliverances, they will also en-
kindle at glOries to come. IT, at nine
o'clock, when the church opened, you
had taken the few people who were
scattered through it as the main audi
ence, you would not have made so great
a mistake as if you supposed that the
present population of Heaven are to be
it's chief citizenship. Although millions
are already there, the Inhabitants are
only handful compared with the future
populations. All China is yet to be
saved. All India is yet to be saved. All
Borneo is yet to be saved. All Switzer-
land 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 En-
gland is yet to be saved. All America
is vet to be saved. All the world is yet
to be saved. After that there may be
other worlds to conquer. / 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 DO 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
have sometimes thought that all tho
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 thou
sand universes. do not know just how
it will be, but this l know, that Heaven