The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-08-19
scene Of sin and trouble into glory.
seem 20 hear him sRy:

seem 20 near MN say;
Tourney forth rejoicing
From this dark vale ~ tears,
To heavenly JOY and freedom,
From earthly care and fears.
when Christ my Lord shall gather
All his redeemed again,
His kingdom 10 inherit
Goodnight TIL then.
Ihcar my saviour calling;
The joyful hour has come,
The angel guards are ready
To guide me to our home
When Christ our Lord shall gather
All his redeemed again.
His kingdom to inherit
Goodnight until then
My subject advances, and tells you Of
the symbols they carry. II my text
carrying cypress branches, that would
have meant sorrow. IL my text had
| represented the good In Heaven rs car
rying night-shadc, that would have
meant sin. But IL is u palm branch
they carry, and that is victory. When
the people came home from war In
oldcn times, the conqueror rode ut the
head of his troops, and there were ri-
umphal arches, and the people would
come out with branches Of the palm
tree and wave them all along the host.
What significant type this of the
greeting and of the JOY of the redeemed
! in Heaven! On earth they were con-
demncd and were put out of polite cir
| clcs. They had infamous hands strike
them ON both checks. Internal spite
spat in their faces, Their back achcd
| with sorrow.
! Their brow rcclcd with unalleviatcd
| toll. How weary they were! Some
! times they broke the heart OF the mid
! night in the midst of their anguish,
CRYING out, 80 Godw But bark now 10
.he shout Of the delivered captivcs rs
| they lift their arms from the shaclilcs
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, and because they are delivered
from all these they stand before God
waving their palms. They come To tho
feet of Christ and they look up into
His face, and they remember His
sorrows, and they remember His
pain, and they remember His groanS,
and they say: 'Why, | was saved by
that Christ. lie pardoncd my sins. lie
soothcd my sorrows;" and standing
there they shall be cxultant, waving
their palms
That hand once held the implement
of toll or welded the sword of war; bat
now it plucks down branches from the
tree of life rs they stand before the
throne waving their palms. Once he
was IA pilgrim ON earth; he crunched
the hard cruSts-he walked the weary
way; but IL is all gone now, the sin
gone, the WEAKNESS gone, the sickness
| gone, the sorrow gone. As Christ
stands up before the great army Of the
saved and rccounts his victories, it will
bc like the rocking and tossing of u
forest in u tempest, rs all the redeemed
rSo up. host beyond host, rank beyond
rank, waving, waving their palms.
My subject makes another advance
mcnt and speaks of the song they sing
Dr. Dick. i'm very learned work, SAYS
that, among other things in Heaven, la
thinks they will give great dcal 81
time To the study of arithmctic and thu
higher branches of mathematics. q,
not believe it II would upset my idct
OF Heaven II thought 81; | never liked
mathematics and | would rather talk,
the representation of my text which
describes the occupation of Heaven Us
being joyful salmony. They cried will
a loud voice. saying, salvation unto on
cod" In this world we have Necula
songs, nursery songs, hoatm"u'S songs
harvest songs, sentimental songs; ba
in Heaven we will have tasto for onl!
one song, and that will be tho song q
salvation from an eternal death 20 III
eternal Heaven, through tho blood q
the Lamb that was slain.
sec soul coming up 10 join the re-
, deemed in Heaven. As IL goes tArougl
, the gates the old friends of that spiri
come around il and say: What shat
WI sing?' Aud the ncwly-arrivod sou
SAYS: sing salvation" And afte
awhile an earthly dcSpotism falls, AM
"A sceptOr of iniquity is snapped, AM
, churches are built where once Their
, were supcrstitious mosques, and angc
, cry 20 angel; Let us sing" And tn
ap.wer Is: What shall we singr" An
, another voice says: Let us sing saliva
. ton" And after while AL th
r churches ON earth rush into tho out
spread arms of the church OF Heaven
: and whilo the righteous are ascondin
, and the world Is burning. and oil thing
t; are being wound up, the question wi
bc asked; What shall we sing?" An
, there will be "A voice "likc the voice q
, many waters, like the voice of might
thundcrlngs," that will respond: "Sin