The Opelousas courier., 1892-09-03

From this dark vale of tears
Tt heavenly Joy and Freedom
From earthly care and fears.
When Christ my Lord shall gather
AL His redeemed again,
His kingdom to inherit
Goodnight till then.
Ihear nv Saviour calling;
The joyful hour has come;
The angel guards are ready
To guide me TO our nome
When Christ our Lord shall gather
All His redeemed again,
His kingdom to inherit
Good-nig ht till then.
NV subject advances, and tells you OF the
symbols they carry. 1t my text nao repre-
sented the good i'll heaven as carrying
cvnress branches, that would nave meahb
sorrow, II my text had represented tne
good in heaven as carrying nlghtsnaoe, tna1
would have meant sin. But 1t Is a pam
branch they carry, and that Is victory.
When the people came home from war N
oIden times the conqueror rode al 1ne neaI
of his troops, and there were trluhpnal
arches, and people would come ouV m
branches of the palm tree and wave theni
ali along the host. What a significant type
this of the greeting and of the JOY OF Une
redeemed in heaven! On earth they were
condemned. and were put out or pohbe cIi-
eles. They had infamous hands strike tnenl
on both cheeks. Internal spite spat IN the1f
faces. Their back ached with sorrow.
Their brow reeked with unalleviated ton.
How weary they weret Sometimes they
broke the heart of the midnight in the midst
of all their anguish, crying out, ~ zoo,
But bark now to the shout OF the delivered
captiyes. as they lift their arms from the
-. I'D +har ofxy ont sbHrnAl TTeeI
They look back upon all the trials through
which they nave passed, the battles they
have fought, the burdens they carried. the
Misrepresentation they suffered, ana De-
cause they are delivered from all these they
stand before God waving their palms. iney
come to the feet of Christ, and they look
M into His face, and they remember Ills
sorrows. and they remember His pain, ana
they remember His groans, and tney say
sgWhy. I was saved by that Christ. ne
hardened my sins, He soothed my sorrows,
and standing there they shall be exultang'
waving their palms.
That hand once held the implement OF toll
or welded the sword OF war, bub no" ~
plucks down branches from the tree OF lie
as thew stand before the throne waving bnelF
palms. Once he was a pilgrim on earth'
he crunched the hard crusts-he walked tne
weary way, but it is all gone now; the SIN
gone, the WEAKNESS gone, the sickness gone
the sorrow gone. As Christ stands up De-
fore the great array of the saved and re-
counts His victor les it will be like the rocking
and tossing of a forest in a tempest, as an
the redeemed rise up, host beyond host, rank
beyond rank, waving their palms.
My subject makes another advancement
and speaks of the song they sing.
DIR. Dick, in a very learned work, says
that among other things in heaven he thinks
they will give a great deal OF time to tine
study of arithmetic and the higher branches
of mathematics. l do not believe 1t. IL
would upset my idea of heaven il l though
so: I never liked mathematics: and l Woulo
rather take the representation OF my 9 x
which describes the occupatian of heaven a.
being ioyfuI psalmody. They cried will
a loud voice, saying, Salvation unto oui
| God.n In this world we nave secular songs
nursery songs, boatmen's songs, harves
songs. sentimental songs; but in heaven W.
will have taste for only one song, and tina
will be the song of salvation from an eterna
death to an eternal heaven through tn
blood of the Lamb that was slain
In this world we AVE plaintive songs
songs tremulous with sorrow, songs dirgefu
for the dead: but in heaven there will be nj
signing of winds, no wailing of anguish, N
weepinc symphony. The tamest song vii
be h~alleluiah-the dullest tune a triumphs
march. Joy among the cherubim! 10
among the Serapnln! Joy among ene 2ol
somed! Joy forever!
On earth the music in churches is ofte
poor. because there is nc interest in it or be
cause there is no harmony. Some would nc
sing. some could not sing, some sang to
high. some sang too low, some sang by Il
and starts, but in the great al
dience of the redeemed on hig
all voices will be a~ccordant, ar
the man who on earth could not tell a Dial
tation melody from the dead March i
Saur' will lift an anthem that the Mendel
sohns and Beethovens and the Schumanns
earth never imagined, and you may stan
through all eternity and listen and there wi
not be one discord in the great anthem TIL
forever rolls up against the great heart
God, It will not be a solo, it will not be
duet. it will not be a quintet, but an innuu
/ cradle host before the throne. crying, "Ss
walton INTO our God and unto the Lamb
They crowd all the temples, they bend ov
the battlements, they fill all the heights al
depths and lengths and breadths of heav
Q with their h~osanDas.
, When people were taken into the TemE
r of Diana it was such a brilliant room th
they were always put on their guard. Sor
people had lost their sight by just looki
2 on the brilliancy Of that room, and so {
o ianitor when he brought a stranger to I
{. door and let him in would always char
d him, Take heed of your eyes"
Obi when [ think of the song that goes
around the throne of God, so jubilant, ma
voiced, m~u1titudinous, | feel like sayil
Take heed of your ears 1t is SO ioue
song, 1t is so blessed an anthem. III
sing q rock song, saying. "Wno is He I'll
sheltered us in the wilderness. and shadow
us in a weary landr' And the chorus cor
in, Christ the shadow of a rock In a WEI
land"
They sing a star song saying, "Who is
chat guided us through the thick night,
when all other lights went out arose In
sky the morning star, pouring light on
souls darkness?' And the chorus will co
:. in, Christ, the morning star, shining on
? souls darkness" They will sing a no.
song. saving, "Who is He that brighte
9 all our way, and breathed sweetness u
: u soul, and bloomed through frost
! tempestgi And the chorus win come
= "Christ, the lily of the valley, bloom
, through frost and tempest" They sin
= water song, saying, "Who is He
: cleaned to us from the frowning crag,
{ iightened the darkest ravine of trouble,
: brought cooling to the temples and refr'
2 ment to the lip, and was a fountain In
9 midst of the Wilderness n then
: chorus will come in, Christ, the fountain
= the midst of the wilderness"
g Nv friends, will you join that anth
u Shall we make rehearsal this morning?
: we cannot sing that song on earth we
Il not be able TO sing it in heaven. Can i
= that our good friends in THAI land will v
y all through that great throng Of viii
= speak looking for us and not fndiies
!. Will thew come down to the rate and z
is we nave passeu Jurougn. anu nOJ nno us
ported as having come? Will they
If through the folios Of eternal light and
our names unrecorded? Is all this a re
if sentation of a land we shall never see,
10 song we shall never singh
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