The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1892-09-03
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Uf. LICK, IN . very learned WORK.
says that among other things in
Heaven they will give great deal of
time to the study of arithmetic and the
higher branches of mathematics. do
not believe it. 1t would upset my idea
of Heaven if thought so. never
liked mathematics, and l would
rather take the representation
of my text which describes the
occupation of Heaven as being joy
full psalmody. "They cried with loud
voice, saying: Salvation unto our God. f"
In this world we have secular songs,
nursery songs, boatmen's songs, harvest
songs, sentimental songs, but in Heaven
we will have taste for only one soag.
and that will be q song of salvation
from an eternal death to an eternal
Heaven, through the blood Of the Lamb
that was slain.
see soul coming up to join the re-
deemed in Heaven. As it goes through
the gates the old friends of that spirit
come around it and say: "What shall
we sing?" and the newly-arrived soul
says: "Sing salvation" and after awhile
an earthly despotism falls, and a scep-
ter of iniquity is snapped, and churches
are built where once there were
superstitious mosques, and angel
cries to angel: Let us sing" and
the answer is: "What shall we
sing?' and another voice says: "Let
us sing salvation" And after awhile
all the churches on earth will rush into
the outspread arms of the church of
Heaven, and while the righteous are
ascending, and the world is burning,
and all things are being wound up, the
question will be asked: what shall
we sing?" and there will be voice
like the voice of many waters, like
the voice Of mighty thunderings," that
will respond: "Sing salvation"
In this world we have plaintive songs
songs tremulous with sorrow, songs
dirgeful for the dead; but in Heaven
there will be no signing of winds, no
waiting of anguish, no weeping SYM
phony. The tamest song will be halle
lujah-the dullest tune q triumphal
march. Joy among the cherubim! JOY
among the seraphiml Joy among the
ransomed! Joy forever!
On earth the music in churches is
often poor, because there is no interest
in it, or because there ID no harmony.
Some would not sing; some could not
sing; some sang too high; some sang
too low; some sang by fits and starts;
but in the great audience of the re-
deemed on high all voices will be ac-
h4 uhn -
could not tell a plantation melody from
the Dead March in Saul" will lift an an
them that the Mendelssohnsa and Beetho-
vens and the Schumanns of earth never
imagined; land you may stand through all
eternity and listen, and there will not
be one discord in that great anthem
that forever rolls up against the great
heart of God. It will not be . solo; IL
will not be duet; it will not be quin-
tette; but an innumerable host before
the throne, crying: Salvation unto
our God and unto the Lamb" They
crowd all the temples; they bend over
the battlements; they I'LL all the heights
and depths and lengths and breadths Of
Heaven with their hosannas.
When people were taken into tho
temple of Diana it was such brilliant
room that they were always put on
their guard. Some people had lost
their sight by just locking on the bril-
liancy of that room, and so the janitor,
when he brought a stranger to the door
and let him in. would always charge:
"Take heed of your eyes."
Oil when 1 think of the song that
goes up around the throne Of God, so
jubilant, many-voiced, multitudinous,
feel like saying: Take heed of your
ears" 1t is so loud a song. 1t is &c
blessed an anthem. They sing q rock
song, saying: "Who is He that sheltered
us in the wilderness. and Swallowed W
in q weary land?' And the chorus comes
in: Christ, the shadow Of rock in .
weary land"
They sing q star song, saying: who
is He that guided us through the thick
night, and when all other lights went
ont arose in the sky the morning star,
pouring light on the souls darkness7"
And the chorus will come In: Christ,
the morning star, shining on the souls
darkness" They will sing flower
song, saying: who is He that
frightened all our way, and
breathed sweetness upon our soul,
and bloomed through frost and tenn
pest? And the chorus will como in
Christ, the lily OF the valley, bloom
ing through frost and tempest" They
sing a water song. saying: "Whe is
He that CLEANED to us from tho frown-
ing crag, and hghtened the darkest
ravine of trouble, and brought cooling
to the temples and refreshment to the
lip, and was a fountain in tho midst of
the wilderness" And then tie chorus
will come in: Christ, the fountain in
hemidst of the wilderness"
My friends, will you join that
anthem? Shall we make rehearsal
this morning? If we can not sing that
song on earth, we will not be able to
sing it in Heaven. Can it be that
our good friends in that land
will walk all through that great
throng of which 1 speak looking for
us and not finding us? Will they come
down to the gate and ask if we have
passed through. and not find us report
ed as having come? Will they look
through the folios of eternal light and
find our names unrecordedP Is all this
a representation of land we shall
never see-of q song we shall never