The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-09-10
HEAVENLY MELODIES.
Graphic Description Of the Music
Of the Celestials Land
The New Song and what Il WIN b Eiks
Tho Grandest AnthSht Ever Heard
Sermon by Rev. 2, De witt
Taimaee. d. d.

mbioulop VI ING OeleSUial lanQ. his
text was, Rev. vi. o.: Sand they sang
new song" Following is the sermon:
Nearly all the cities OF Europe and
America have conservatories Of music,
apd associations whose object it is, by
voice and instrument to advance the
art Of eetsounds. On Thursday nights
Exeter Hall, Of London, used to re.
e6und With the music Of frst-class pers
formers, who gave their services gratui-
sously to the masses who came in with
free tickets and huzzaed at the enter
tainment At Berlin, at eleven o'clock
daily, the military band, with sixty or
one hundred instruments, discourses at
the Royal Opera House for the people.
On Easter Sunday, In Dresden, the boom
Of cannon and the ringing Of bells, bring
multitudes to the churches TO listen to
the organ peals, and the exciting sounds
Of trumpet and drum. When the great
fsir-dsy Of Leipsio comes. the bands Of
70 usic, from far and near, gather in the
street. and bewilder the ear with inces-
SAINT playing Of flute, and horn, violin,
end bassoon. At Dusseldorf, once Q
year, the lovers Of music assemble, and
for three or four days wait upon the
great singing festivals, and shout at the
close Of the choruses, and greet the sue
cessful competitors as the prizes are dis
tributed-cups and vases Of silver and
gold. All our American cities at times
resound with orchestra and oratorio.
Those who can sing we'll or play skill
fully upon instruments are greeted with
vociieration, and garlanded by excited
admirers.
There arc many whose most ecstatic
delight is to be found In melodies; and
all the splendor of celestial gates, and
all the lusciousness Of twelve manner Of
fruits, and all the rush OF floods from
under the throne Of God, would not
make heaven for them II there no
great and transporting harmonies. Pas
sing along osS streets In the hour Of
worship, you hear the voice Of sacred
melody, although you do not enter the
tbilding. And passing along the streets
d Heaven We hear, from tho temple Of
God and the Lamb, the breaking forth
Of magnificent jubilate. We may not
yet enter In among the favored throng,
but God will not deny US the pleasure
Of standing awhile on the outside to
hear. John listened TO It great while
ago, ''snd they sang new song"
Let none aspire TO that blessed place
who have no love for this exercise, for
although 1t is many ages since the
thrones were set and the harps were
strung, there has been no cessation In
the song excepting sncs for about thirty
minutes; and, judging from the glorious
things now transpirinF in Gods world,
and the ever accumulating triumphs Of
The Messiah, that was the last half hour
thSt Heaven will ever be silent
Mark the fact that this was = new
song. Sometimes have in church been
nQsted away upon some great choral, in
Which all our people seemed to mtngle
tk}ir voices, and have, in the glow Of
by emotions, said, Surely this is music
good enough for Heaven. Indeed I do
not believe that "Luther's Hymn" or
"Coronation," or "0ld Hundred" or
"Mount Plsgah," would sound Ill II
spoken by sainted lips, or thrummed
from seraphic harps There are many
Of our fathers and mothers in glory who
would be slow TO shut Heavens gate
against those old-time harmoniea But
this, we are told, is new song. Some
OF our greatest anthems and chorals are
compositions from other tunes - the
sweetest parts OF them gathered up into
the harmony-and I have sometimes
thought that this "new song" may be
partly made up Of sweet strains Of earth
IL music mingled In eternal choral. But
y will, after all, be new song, This
DO know, that In sweetness and power
II win be something that ear never
heard. All the skill Of the Oldest harp
or OF Heaven will be fiung into IL All
the love Of Gods heart will ring from
70 In It's cadences the floods will clap
their hands, and II will drop with the
sunlight Of everlasting day, and breathe
With odors from the blossoms OF the treo
Of liis. "A new song"-iust made for
Heaven 4Ls- N--h st "t- ~
Many earthly songs are written BY
composers justfor the purpose Of making
atuhe; and the land 10 flooded with note-
books In which really valuable tones
sfs the exception. But enoe In . whils,
b m ID Ffsusht ~ IhS some greet
Spestsclss n moved H sesiel terribls
Decay, or trahsportsd by somo eIquisits
fiAAness. and he ats down 10 write .
tune or hymn. In which every note or.
sYsyy word IL aspasi dropped from the
f9fts Of his own burning sshotions, 30
Hsndelssehn wrote, and so Beethoven,
and 90 Charles Wesley. Cowrer, dc.
Blessed with misfcrtunes until almost
iuesns, resolved on suicide, and asked
ths cab driver 70 take him 10 . certain.
place, where he expected 10 destroy
his own life. The cab driver lost his
wsy, and Cewper began 70 think OF bis
sin, and went back 70 his home and set
down and wrote:
''0od moves In mysterious way
His wonders " perform,
He plants his footstsp in the sea
And ridos upon the storm
''Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take,
Tho clouds you 20 much dread
. Are pig yirh mercy, and shsil break I
4, In blessihss.on your head" n r. = tl.t
Mozart. composed his own requiem,
and said 10 his daughter Emily, PLAY,
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