Sharp County record., 1890-09-25
HEAVENLY SONG.
Grand Chorals of the Re-
deemed in Heavenly Lands.
. New Song; the Glorious Harmonies
IN Gods Chosen Ones Given In
Word Picture by Rev. Il
Dewitt Talmage.

Sabbath, from the teXG'
hnd they sang new song.-Rev W. "
Nearly all the cities OF Europe anu
America have conseryatories OF music
and associations whose object 1t Is Dy
voice and instrument, to advance the
svt of sweet sounds. On Thursday
NIGHTS, Exeter Hall, London, used 10
rcsopnd with the music of tirst-class
nerformers, who gave their services
eratuitously to the masses, who came IN
Sitb free tickets and huzzaed at tne
<ntertainment. At Berlin, at eleven
o'clock daily, the military band WIN
s.xty or one hundred Instruments as
course at the opera-houso for the peo-
ple. On Easter Sunday, in Dresaen,
the boom of cannon and the ringing ol
bells, bring multitudes to the churcheS
to listen to the organ peals, and the eX-
citing sounds of trumpet and drum.
When the great fair day oi
Leipsic comes, the bands OF music
frcm far and near, gather in the street,
and bewilder the ear with inceSsant
playing of flute, and horn, violin ana
bassoon. At Dusseldorf, once year,
the lovers of music assemble, and 1or
three or four days wait upon the great
7 singing festivals, and shout at the close
Of choruses, and greet the successful
competitors as the prizes are distributed
& Z cups and vases of silver and gold.
ALI our American cities at times re-
sound with orchestra and oratorlo.
Those who can sing well or play skill
fully upon instruments are greeted with
vociferation, and garlanded by excited
ad7nirers.
There are many whose most ecstatic
de1ipht is to be found in melodies; and
aIlthe 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 if there were
n09reat and transporting harmonies.
Passing along our streets in the hour of
uorship you hear the voice of sacred
melody, although you do not enter the
hnilding. And passing along the street
of Heaven wo hear from the Temple of
GM and the Lamb, the breaking forth
Of magnificent jubilate. We may not
7y6t enter in among the favored throng,
but God will not deny us the pleasure
Ct handing awhile on the outside to
hear. John listened to it great while
o9o, and "they sang new song"
LET none aspire to that blessed place
who have no love for this exercise, for
6lthough it is many ages since the
lhrones were set, and the harps whore
1<rung, there has been no cessation in
tho Song excepting once for about thir-
4 " minutes; and, Judging from the glori-
6ps thing now transpiring in Gods
! Vorld, and the ever-accumulating
X (rilmphs of the Messiah, that was the
''..:=< ,!:4:S hall hour that Heaven will ever be
1ilont.
Mark the fact that this was new
10ng. Sometimes have in church been
HQAted away upon some great CHORAL in
I which all our people seemed to mingle
voices, and have, in the glow Of my
omotions, said: Surely this is music
X 80M enough for Heaven. Indeed, | do
otbeliove that "Luthers Hymn" or
'Coronation," or "Old Hundred or
"hounnt "Pisgah" would sound i'll if
gpoken by sainted lips, or thrummed from
eerephic harps, There are many of our
tathers and mothers in glory who would
20 How to shut Heavens gate against
these old-time harmonies. But this,
we are told, is new song,
some OF our greatest an
+ a4ms and chorals are compost
QQs from other times-the sweetest
{B of them gathered up into the
N Pmony; and lhave sometimes thought
11(1 this 'new song" may be partly
unde up Of sweet strains of earthly
HIn0sic minglos in eternal choral. But
Nill, after ALL be new song. This
Qo know-that in sweetness and
powell 1t will be something that ear
never heard. All the skill of the Oldest
nsrpers OF Heaven will bo flung into 1t.
AA tho love Of Gods heart will ring
HQm 1t, In Its cadencos tho floods will
o'ap their hands and 1t will drop with
!nP sunlight of everlasting day, and
preatho with odors from the blossoms
of'tho tree Of life, "A now song"-iust
made for Heaven.
Many earthly songs arc written by
4 eomposers just for tho purpose Of maxi
ing l'ls a tunei and the land Is flooded with
rote- books In which really valuable
Nnes arc tho exception. But once in
3Nnllo u man Is wrought up by somo
3at spectacle, or moved by some tor
s'plo agony or transported by some OK
N1lto gladness, and ho sits down to
'o u tune or hymn, In which every
or every word Is u spark dropped
the forge of his own burning omo-
SO Mondolssohn wrote, and so
thovon, and so Charles Wosloy,
A 3pVpcr, depressed with misfortuncs
AnnW almost insane, resolved on suicide,
sno asked tho cab-lriver to take him to
wrtoin place whore ho expected to
e0aroy his own life, Tho cab.driyor
' his way and cowpor began to
'nink of his sin, and won't back to his
home and sat down and wrotei
~ moves In mysterious way,
llls wonders to performs
He punts His footsteps In the sea,