Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-07-16

SoCAAobSAS~i' ehSJ SA|tSANN3 49,
because they are delivered from all thest
they stand bcforc Cod waving thGl
palms. They come to the feet of Christ
and they look up into his face, and they
!; remember his sorrows, and they rcmen
!, Der his pain, and they remember hi;
groans, and they say: why, L was
saved by that Clrist. He pardoned my
Gins. hGsoothed my sorrows" and stand.
ing there they Stall be exultant, waving
their palms.
10 MORE Toll OR SORROW.
That hand once held the implement OF
toll OF welded the sword of war, but
row it plucks down branches from the
tree of life as they stand before the
throne. waving their palms. Once he
was,a pilgrim on earth; he crunched the
hard crusts-he walked the weary way;
but it is all gone now; the sin gone, the
WEAKNESS gone. the sickness gone, the
sorrow gone. AS Christ stands up be.
fore the great array of tho saved and re-
counts his victories it will be like the
rocking and tossing of forest i'll TEN
pest, as all the redeemed rise up, host
sEsybeyend shostgranlnbey ond rank waving
Their palms : - : s
My subject makes another advance
ment, and speaks of the song. they sing.
DR.. Dick, in a very learned work,
says that among other things in heaven
he thinks they will give q greai deal of
time to the study of arithmetic and the
higher branches of mathematics. l do
not believeit. 1t would upset my idea
of heaven if thought so; never liked
mathematics; and / would rather take
the representation of my text, which de-
scribes the occupation of heaven as be-
ing joyful psalmody. They cried with
loud voice, saying, Salvation unto our
God" In this world we have secular
songs, nursery songs, boatmen's songs.
harvest songs. sentimental songs; but i'll
heaven We will have taste for only one
song, and that will be the song of saliva
ton from an eternal death to al eternal
heaven through the blood of the Lamb
that was slain.
see Il 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 scepter
of iniquity is snapped, and churches are
built where once there were supersti-
tious 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 church on earth will rush
into the outspread arms of the church of
heaven, and while the righteous are as
cending and the world is burning and
all things are being wound up, the qucs-
ton 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 re-
spond, Sing salvation"
In this world we have plaintive songs
songs trenulous with SORROW, songs
dirgeful for the dead; but in heaven
there will be no signing of winds, no
wailing of anguish, no weeping SYM
phony. The tamest song will be hal
leluiah-the dullest tune q triumphal
march. Joy among the cherubim! Joy
among the seraphim! Joy among the
ransomed! Joy foreverl
On earth the music in churches is
often poor, because there is no interest
in it 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 will be accopdant, and
the man who on earth could not tell 8
plantation melody from the Dead
March in Saul" will lift an anthem that
the Memberships and Beethovens and
the Schumanns of earth never imagined,
AMI you may stand through all eternity
and listen and there will not be one dis
cord 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 quintet, but an in
Vulnerable host before the throne, cry
ing, Salvation unto our God and unto
the Lamb" They crowd all the tenn
ples, they bend over the battlements,
they fill all the heigh1s and depths and
lengths and breadths of heaven with
their hosannas.
THE DIVINE GLORY.
When people were taken into the Tenn
pie of Diana it was such a 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 jubi-
liant, many voiced, multitudinous, | feel
like saying, Take heed of your ears. )"
1t is so loud a song. 1t is so blessed an
anthem. They sing rock song, saying.
"Who is he that sheltered us in the viii
derness, and Swallowed US in weary
Iand?" And the chorus comes in, "Christ
the shadow of rock in 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 a flower song,
saying, "Who is he that frightened all
our way, and brcathed sweetness S2on
our soul, and bloomed through frost and
tempest?" And the chorus will come i'll,
-"Christ, the lily of the valley, blooming
through frost and tempest. They sing
II water song, saying, WHO is he that
cleaned to us from the frowning crag,
and lightened the darkest ravine Of