Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1890-09-20

AoUA "A % AACW tu1ICs Duh uOI SO WIN the
new song Of Heaven. The children who
went up to-day from the waters of the
Gauges are now singing it. That Chris
tian man or woman who a few minutes
ago departed from this very street has
Joined it. All know it-those by the
gates, those on the river bank, those in
the temple. Not feeling their way
through it, or halting, or going back, as
II they never before had sung it. but
with full round voice they throw their
soul into the new song. If some
Sabbath day a few notes of that
anthem should travel down the air
we could not sing it. No or
gan could roll its thunder No harp
could catch it's trill. No lip could an
nounce it's sweetness. Transixed, lost,
enchanted, dumb, we could not hear it
the faintest note of the new song. Yet
while / speak Heavens cathedral quakes
under it, and seas of glory bear it from
beach to beach, and ten thousand times
ten thousand and thousands of thousands
sing it-'the new song
Further, it is a commemorative song.
We are distinctly told that it makes ref
erence to past deliverances. Oh, how
much have they to sing about! They
sing of the darkness through which on
earth they have passed, and it is 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 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 one
burned at Smithfield, and with him it is
fire song. Oh, how they will sing of
floods of IF
cution suffered, of grace extended
Song of hail! song of sword! song of hot
lead! song of ak! AS when the organ
pipes peal out some great harmony there
comes occasionally the sound of the
tremulante, weeping through the ca
dences, adding eXquisiteness to the per-
formances, so amidst the stupendous ac-
claim of the heavenly worshipers shall
come tremulOus remembrances of past
endurance, adding a sweetness and glory
to the triumphal strain. So the glorifed
mother will sing of the cradle that death
robbed, and the enthroned spirit from
the almshouse will sing of lifetime of
want. God may wipe away all tears,
but not the memory of the grief that
started them
Further, it will be an accompanied
song Some have great prejudice
against musical instruments, and even
among those who like them there is All
idea that they are unauthorized. I love
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 We are told that
it shall wake the dead. love all stringed
instruments, and organs, for God de-
mands 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 fell down before the Lamb, hav-
ing every one of them ''harps,'' and 81
heard the voice of the harpers harping
with their harps," and II saw them that
had gotten the victory 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 igurative. Then
| say prove it. do not know how much
of it is literal, and how much OF it is
figurative. Who can say but that from
some of the precious woods Of earth and
Heaven there may not be made instru-
ments of celestial accord? In that wor-
ship 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
Schumann ever dreamed of, or Beethoven
ever wrote for, let all Heaven make
ready for the burst of stupehdous
minstrelsy and the roll Of the eternal
orchestra.
Further, it will be an anticipative song
Why, my friends, Heaven has hardly be-
gun yet. If you had taken the opening
piece of music to-day for the whole serv-
ice you would not have made so great
mistake as to suppose. that Heaven is
fully inaugurated. Festal chorouses on
earth last only short while The fam
Gus musical convocation at Dusseldorf
ended with the fourth day. Our holidays
last only eight or ten days, but Heaven,
although singingffor so many years, has
only just begun the new song" If the
gloriied inhabitants recount past deliv-
erances they Will also enkindle At glories
to come. II. at 9 O'Clock, when the
church opened, you had taken the few
people who were scattered through 1t as
the MAIN audience you would not nave
made so|great mistake as II you sup
posed That the present populatlon o.
Heaven are to be it's chief cltlzenshlp.
Although millions are already there, the
inhabitants are only handful compared
with the future populations. All emma
isfyet to be saved All India is yet to be
saved. All Borneo is yet to be saved;
All Switzerland is yet to be saved All
italy is vet to be saved. All Spain Is
wet to be saved. All Russia is yet to be
saved. All France is yet to be saved;
All England is yet to be saved. All
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