The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-11

Every second Of every minute of every
| hour Of every day heart breaks.
The earth from zone to zone and from
pole to pole is cleft with sepulchral rent;
and the earth can easily afford to bloom
and blossom when it is so rich with molder-
ing life. Gravesl gravesl gravesl But
when these bereavements have all passed,
and there are no more graves to dig, and
no more collins to make, and no more sor-
row to suffer. we shall pull off this mourn
| ing and be robed in whita / see a soul
going right up from all this scene of sin
and trouble into glory. seem to hear him
| say:
journey forth rejoicing
From this dark vale OF tears,
To heavenly JOY and freedom,
From earthly care and fears.
When Christ my Lord shall gather
All his redeemed again,
His kingdom to inherit
Good night till then.
hear my Savior calling;
The joyful hour has come;
The angel guards are ready
To guide me to our home.
When Christ our Lord shall gather
All mis- redeemed again,
His kingdom to inherit
Good night till then.
My subject advances, and tells you Of the
symbols they carry. II my text had repre-
scented the good in heaven as carrying cypress
branches that would have meant sorrow. IL
my text had represented the good In heaven
as carrying nightshade that would have
meant sin. But it is palm branch they
carry, and that is victory. When the peo-
pie came home from war in olden times the
conqueror rode at the bead of his troops,
and there were triumphal 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 condemned aud put out
Of polite circles. They had infamous hands
strike them on both cheeks. Internal spite
spat in their faces. Their back eched with
sorrow.
Their brow reeled with unalleviated toll
How weary they werel Sometimes they
broke the heart OF the midnight in the
midst Of all their anguish. crying out, 10
God" But bark now to the shout of the
delivered captives: as they lift their arms
from the shaokles and they cry out, "Freel
freep They look back upon all the trials
through which they have passed. the battles
they have fought, the burdens they oar
ried, the misrepresentation they suffered,
and because they are delivered from all
these, they stand before God waving their
palms. They come 60 the feet of Christ and
they look up into his face, and they remem-
Der his sorrows, and they remember his
pain, and they remember his groans, and
they say: "Why, | was saved by that
Christ He hardened my Sins. he soothed
my sorrows;" and standing there they shall
be exultant, waving their palms.
That hand once held the implement of
toll or welded the sword of war; but now
IL pluoks 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 il is all gone
| now, the sin gone, the WEAKNESS gone the
sickness gone, the sorrow gone. As Christ
stands up before the great array Of the
saved and recounts his victories, it will be
| ike the rocking and tossing OF a forest in a
tempest, as all the redeemed rise up, host
bsyond host, rank beyond rank. waving,
| waving their palms.
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 a great deal of time to
the study Of arithmetic and the higher
branches OF mathematics. do not believe
| IL. IL would upset my idea OF heaven IL |
thought 80; never liked mathematics; and
would rather take the representation Of
my text, which describes the occupation Of
heaven as being. joyful psalmody. They
cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation
unto our God" In this world we have sec
ular songs, nursery songs, bostmen's songs
harvest songs, sentimental songs; but in
heaven we will have taste for only one song,
and that will be the song of salvation from
an eternal death to an eternal heaven
through the blood Of the Lamb that was
| slain.
l see a soul coming up to join the re-
deemed In heaven. As it goes through the
| gates, the old friends of that spirit come
around 1t and say: What shall we sing7"
! and the newly -arrived soul says: ''Sing sal
| vationi" and after a while an earthly des-
| potlsm falls, aud a scepter of iniquity is
snapped, and churches are built where once
| there were superstitiouS mosques, and angel
| cries TO angel: Let us sing y and the answer
is: what shall we singr and another
! voice says: Let US sing salvation And
after while all the church on earth will
rush into the outspread arms of the church Of
| heaven, and while the righteous are ascend
| ing, and the world is burning, and all things
are being wound up, the question will be
! asked: "What shall we singP and there
| will be a voice like the voice Of many
waters, like the voice of mighty thunder
| ings," that will respond: Sing saliva
| tom
In this world we have plaintive songs
songs tremulous with sorrow, songs dirge-
full for the dead but in heaven there will
| De no signing of winds. no wailing of an
guish, no weeping symphony. The tamest
song will be hallelujah-thes dullest tune a
triumphal march. Joy among the cheru-
bin! Joy among the seraphim! JOY
among the ransomed! Joy forever
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