Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1892-07-30

To heavenly 10y and freedom,
From earthly cafe and feafS.
When Christ my Lord shAll gather
All His redeemed again,
His kingdom to inherit
Goodnight till then.
1hear NV Saviour calling:
The Joyful hour hss conner
The angel guards are ready
To guide me 10 our home.
"A hen Christ our Lord shall gather
All His redeemed again.
His kingdom 70 inherit
Good-nlg gut till then.
Ny subject advances, aud tells you OF tho
sented the good i'll heaven as carrying
cypress branches, that would have meant
sorrow. II my text had represented the
good in heaven as carrying nightshade, that
would have meant sin. But it Is q palm
they carry, and that Is victory.
When the people came home from war IN
olden times the conqueror rode at the head
of his troops, and there wefe triumphal
arches, and people would come out with
branches of the palm tree and wave them
all along the host. What q significant type
this of the greeting and Of the JOY OF the
redeemed in heaven! On earth they were
condemned, and were put out Of polite cir
eles. They had Infamous hands strike them
on both cheeks. Internal spite spat liz their
faces. Their back ached with sorrow.
Their brow reeked 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 Cod
But bark now to the shout of the delivered
captives, as they lift their arms from tho
shackles and they cry out, ''Freel free"
They look back upon all the trials through
which they have passed, tho battles they
nave fought. the burdens they carried. the
misrepresentation they suffered, and be-
cause they are delivered from all thess they
stand before God waving their palms. They
come to the 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, l was saved by that Christ. He
pardoned my sins, He oothed 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 it
plucks down branches from the tree of life
as they stand before the throne waving their
palms. Once be was q 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 zone. AS Christ stands up be-
fore the great array Of the saved and re-
count His victories it will be like tho rocking
and tossing Of a forest in a tempest, as all
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.
Or. DICK, In q 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 it. 1t
would upset my idea Of heaven il l thought
so; l never liked mathematics; and I would
rather take the representation Of my text,
which describes the Occupatian Of heaven as
being joyful psalmody. They cried with
a loud voice, saying, Salvation unto our
God" In this world we rave secular songs.
nursery songs, boatmen'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
h death to an eternal heaven through the
blood of the Lamb that was slain.
In this world we have plaintive songs
songs tremulous with sorrow, songs dirgeful
for the dead; but in heaven there will Sc no
signing of winds, no waiting OF anguish, no
weeping symphony. The tAmest song will
be halleiuiah-the dullest tune a triumphal
march. Joy among the cherubim. Joy
among the %seraphim: Joy among tho ran
somed, Joy forever,
On earth the music in churches is often
poor, because there is no interest in it or be.
cause there IS no harm my. Some would not
sing, some could not sing, some sang too
high, some sang too low, some sang bv At
and starts, but in the great au.
d M OF the redeemed on high
the man who ON earth could not tell 4 plan
tation melody from the Dead March ia
SAUL will lift an anthem that the Mendels
sohns and Beethovens and the Schumauns OF
earth never imagined, and you may staud
through all eternity and listen and there will
not be one discord in the great anthem thai
forever rolls up against the great heart Of
God. 1t will not be a solo. it will not be .
duet, it will not be a quintet. but an innum
cradle host before the throne. CRYING. IA,
walton unto cur God and unto tho Lamb
They crowd all the temples, they bend owe,
the hattlements, they fill ali the heights an
depths and lengths and breadths OF heaye,
with their hosannas.
When people were taken into the Tempt.
OF Diana it was such q brilliant room tina
they were always put on their guard. Som.
people had lost their sight by just lookin,
on the brilliancy OF that room, and SO til,
JanItor when he brought a stranger TO til
door and let him in would always charg
him, Take heed Of your eyes"
OIL when | think OF the song that goes u,
around the throne OF God, so jubilant, man'
voiced. multitudinous / {eei like saying
Take heed of your ears" 1t is 30 loud
sonk. IL Is 50 blessed an ADtnem. The
sing a rock song, saying. who is He tina
sheltered Us in the wilderness. and shadows
US in a weary landT' And the chorus come
in, Christ the shadow OF a rock in a wear
land.
They sing a star song saying. Who is Ii
that guided Us through the thick night. An
when al other lights went out arose in tn
SKY the morning star. pouring light on til,
souls darkness:' And the ceorus will com
AZ. = hrast, the morning star. shining on tt
soul darkness" They will sing q fowe
song. saying, Who IS He that brightene
ali our way. and breA,aed sweetness uoo
our soul AMI hlooned through frost An
tempest And tile chorus viii come in
Christ. the lily OF the valley. bloonin
through frost AMI tempest They sing
water song. saying. ~ 10 Is He tha
giearnef TO Us from the frorning crag. an,
bgatened the darkes1 rav.ne Of trouble. an
brought cooling 10 the temples and refresh
xneDi u the lip. aud was !. touctain in tn
midst OF tie Wilderness AMI then Oh
chorus VIII come il. Christ, the fountain il
the mlf:sz OF tie wilderness
Ny friends. viii you join that anthem
Sbal! We make rehearsal this moralngs |
We cannot sing that song on earra we VI
not De able 10 sang !. IN heaven Can il. b
that our good ;.!eods Ii that land viii wal
all through that great throag Of which
: sp--ss looking for us and DO. finding u.
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