Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-07-21


and the newly arrived soul says, "Sing sal
vation;" and after awhile an earthly des-
potism falls, and a scepter Of iniquity is
snapped, and churches are built where
once there were superstitious mosques,
and angel cries TO angel, "I.et US sing"
and the answer is, What shall we sinVy"
and another voice says, 'Let US sing sal
yation;" and after awhile all the church
on earth will rush into the outsprcad 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 singi" and there viii be a voice
like the voice of many waters, like the
voice Of mighty thunderings," that will re-
spond, ''Sing salvation"
In this world we have plaintive songs
songs tremulous with sorrow, songs dirge.
full for the dead; but in heaven there will
be no signing Of winds, no wailing of an
guish, no weeping symphony. The tamest
song will be halleluiah-the dullest tune a
triumphal march, Joy among the cheru.
biml Joy among the seraphiml Joy
among the ransomedl JOY foreveri
THE ETERNAL SONG.
On earth the music in churches is often
poor, because there is no interest in it o.
because there is 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 redeemed on high all voices will be
accordant, and the man who on earth
could not tell a plantation melody from
the Dead March in Saul" will lift an
aYnfhayI1 fhaf ha Manl,leznL,o ,I d.
thovens and the Schumanns of earth never
imagined, and you may stand through all
eternity and listen, and there will not be
one discord in that great anthem that for
ever rolls up against the great heart of
God. 1t will not be a solo, it will not be a
duet, it will not be a quintet, but an in.
Vulnerable host before the throne crying
Salvation unto our God and unto the
Lamb" They crowd all the temples; they
bend over the battlements; they fill all
the heights and depths and lengths and
breadths of heaven with their hosannas.
When people were taken into the Temple
of Diana it was such brilliant room that
they were always put on their guard.
Some people had lost their sight by Just
looking on the brilliancy of that room, and
so the janitor, when he brought stranger
to the door and let him in, would always
charge him, >'Take heed of your eyes,"
Oh, when think of the song that goes
up around the throne of God, SO jubilant,
many voiced, multitudinous, l feel like
saying, "Ta&e heed of your ears" It is so
loud a song. 1t is so blessed an anthem.
They sing rock song, saying, "Who is he
that sheltered us in the wilderness and
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chorus comes in, Christ, the shadow of
rock in a weary land"
They sing star song, saying, "Who is
he that guided us through the thick night,
and when all other lights went out arose
in the sky the morning star, pouring light
on the souls darkness?" 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 tempest?" and the cho-
rus will come in, "Christ, the lily of the
valley, blooming through frost and tenn
pest" They sing water song, saying,
"Who is he nat cleaned to us from the
frowning crag, and lightened the darkest
ravine of trouble, and brought cooling to
the temples, and refreshment to the lip,
and was fountain in the midst of the will
derness?" and then the chorus will come
in, Christ, the fountain in the midst of
the wilderness"
My friends, will you join that anthem?
Shall we make rehearsal this morning? If
we cannot sing that song on earth we will
not be able to sing it in heaven. Can it be
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walk all through that great throng of
which l speak, looking for US and not find
ing us? Will they come down to the gate
and ask if we have passed through, and
not find US reported as having Gomez Will
they look through the folios of eternal
light and find our names unrecorded? Is
all this representation of land we shall
never see-of song we shall never sing?