Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-11

| would have meant sin. But it is q palm
branch they carry. and that is victory.
| When the people came home from war In
oioen times the conqneror roue at the nead
| of his troops, and there were tr1umphal
| arches, and the people would come out with
| branches of the palm tree ana wave them
all along the host. What a significant type
this of the greeting and of the Joy OF the re-
deemed in heaven! On earth they were con.
| demned and were put out of polite circles.
They had infamous hands strike them on
| both cheeks. Internal spite spat in their
Their brow reeled with unalleviated toll.
HOW weary they were! Sometimes they
broke the heart Of the midnight in the midst
But bark now to the shout OF the delivered
captives: as they lift their arms from the
shackles and they cry out. Free! Free!
| They look back upon all the trials through
which they have passed, the battles they
have fought, the burdens they carried, the
| misrepresentation they suffered. ana De-
cause they are delivered from all these they
come to the feet of Christ and they look up
| in His face, and they remember His sorrows,
and they remember His groans, and they
say: "Why, l was saved by that Christ.
He pardoned my sins, He soothed my sor-
| rows" and standing there they shall De
exultant waving their palms.
Only One Kind of Music There.
My subject makes another advancement,
| and speaks of the song they sing. Dr. Dick,
in very learned work. says that among
other things in heaven he thinks they will
give q great deal of time to the study of
arithmetic and the higher branches of math-
ematics. do not believe it. 1t would up-
set nv idea of heaven If I thought so.
never liked mathematics, and 1 would
rather take the representation of my text,
which describes the occupation OF heaven
as being joyful psalmody. "They cried with
loud voice, saying, Salvation unto our
Lord"
In this world we have secular songs, nurs-
cry songs, boatmen's songs, harvest songs,
sentimental songs; but in heaven we will
be the song of salvation from an eterpal
death to an eternal heaven, through the
blood of the Lamb that was slain.
see soul coming up to Join the redeemed
in heaven. As it goes through the gates, the
old friends of that spirit come around
it and say: "What shall we sing7" and the
and after while an earthly despotism falls,
and scepter Of infquity Is snapped, and
churches are built where once there were
superstitious mosques, and angel cries to
"What shall we sing9" and another voice
says: LET us sing salvation" And after q
while all the church on earth will rush into
the outspread arms Of the church of heaven,
the world is burning, and all things are be-
ing wound up, the question will be asked:
"what shall we singP" and there will be a
like the Voice Of mighty thunderings,a
that will respond: "Sing salvation"
No Plaintive Songs In Heaven.
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 anguish,
no weeping symphony. The tamest song
will be hallelujah-the dulrest tune a tri-
umphal march. JOY among the cherubim!
Joy among the seraphim! Joy among the
Tansomedi Joy foreveri
On earth the music in churches is often
poor, because there is no interest in 1t, or
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 viii be accord
ant, and the man who on earth could not
tell a plantation melody from the Dead
March IN Saul' will lift an anthem that the
Mendelssohns and Beethovens 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 forever rolls up
against the great heart of God. 1t will not
be solo, it will not be duet; it will not be
Quintette; but an innumerable host before
the throne, crying salvation unto our God
and unto the Lamb"
Oh! when think of the song that goes up
around the throne of God, SO jubilant, many
Ss
"Take heed OF your ears" It is so loud
song. 1t is so blessed an anthem They sing
rock song, saying, "Who is he that sheltered
us in the wilderness, and shadowed us in q
weary land?" And the chorus comes in:
Christ the shadow of a rock in a weary
land"
Variety in Celestial Vocal Music
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 tie
souls darkness" They will sing q 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 come in: Christ
the lily of the valley. blooming through
frost and tempest" They sing water song,
saying: "Who is he that cleaned to us from
rayine OF trouble and brought cooling to the
temples and refreshment TO the lip, and was
foun tain in the midst of the wilderness?"
and then the chorus will come in: "Christ,
the fountain in the midst of the Wilderness
My friends, will you join that anthems
Shall we make rehearsal this morning? II
We cannot sing that song on earth, we will
that our good friends in that land will walk
all through that great throng OF which l |
speak, looking for us and not finding US? |
Will they come down TO the gate and ask if |
we have passed through, and not finding us
reported as having come? Will they look |
through the folios Of eternal light and find |
Dur names unrecorded- Is all this repre-
of land we shall never see?-of a
song We shall never singf |