The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1892-07-21

recounts his victories it will be like the
rocking and tossing of a forest in a
tempest, as all the redeemed rise up.
host beyond host, rank beyond rank
waving, waving their palms.
My subject makes another advance
ment and speaks Of the song they sing
Dr. 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
nlgher branches or mathematics l do
not believe 1t. 1t would upset my idea
or neaven II thought SO; never liked
mathematics; and would rather take
Lhe representation of my text, which
being joyful psalmody. "They cried
with a loud voice, saying, Salvation
unto our God" In this world we have
secular songs, boatmen's songs, har-
vest songs, sentimental songs; but in
heaven we will have taste for only one
song, and that will be the song Of sal
Vatl0n from an eternal death to an eter-
nal heaven, through the blood of the
Lamb that was slain.
L see 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 sing?" and the newly arrived soul
says, Sing salvation;" and after awhile
an earthly despotism falls, and a scep-
ter OF lnlquity is snapped, and churches
are built where once there were super
stltlous mosques, and angel cries to
angeI, 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 righte-
GUS are ascending, and the world is burn
ing, and all things are being wound
up, the question will be asked, "What
shall we sing?" and there will be a
voice like the voice of many waters.
like the voice of mighty thounderinps, y
that Will respond, Sing salvation"
In this world we have plaintive songs
songs tremulous with sorrow, songs
dlrgeful for the dead; but IN heaven
there Will be no signing of winds, no
walllng OF anguish, no weeping sym
pnony The tamcst song will be hal
leluIah-the dullest tune a triumphal
march! Joy among the cherubim! 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 IL 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 tits and starts,
but III the great audience of the re-.
deemed on high all voices will be ac-
c0rdant and the man who on earth
could not tell u plantation melody from
The dead March in Saul" will lift an
anthem that the Memberships and
Beethovens and the Schumanns of
earth never imagined, and you may
'tand through all eternity and listen,
ana tnere WILL not be one discord in
hat great anthem that forever rolls up
against the great heart OF God. It will
not be solo, it will not be duet. it
Will not be quintet, but an innumer
'Dle host before the throne CRYING.
salvation unto our God and unto the
LAMB They crowd all the temples:
hey bend over the battlements: they
i'll all the heights and deutH and lengths
and breadths of heaven with their
nOsannas.
When people were taken into the
Temple of Diana it was such brilliant
room that they were always put on
their guard. Some people had lost
their sight by just looking on the brilli-
tncy OF that room, and so the janitor.
when he brought stranger to the door
and let him in, would always charge
nm, "Iake heed of your ey es."
ON, when ] think of the song that
goes up around the throne of God, so
uDllant, many voiced, multitudinOus,
1eel IKE saying, Take heed of your
sars. aIs II IS SO loud a song. 1t is SO
blessed an anthem. They sing a rock
song, saying, "Who is he that sheltered
ls III the wilderness and shadOwed us
IN weary land?" And the chorus
comes III, Christ, the snalow of rock
IN a weary land"
They sing star song, saying, "Who |
8 he that guided us through the thick
light, and when all other lights went
)ut arose in the sky the morning star.
pouring light on the SOULS darkncss?N
And the chorus will come in, "Christ
he morning star, shining on the soul's
larkness.' They will sing a flower
song, saying, "Who is he that frightened
Ill our way, and breathcd sweetness
lpon our soul, and bloomed through
rost and tempest:" and the chorus will |
come in, "Christ. the lily of the valley.
blooming through frost and tempest"
Ihey sing water song, saying. "Who
8 ne that cleaned 20 us from the frown-
ng crag, and lightened the darkest ravlne
o1 trouble, and brought cooling 10 the |
lip, and was fountain 10 tie midst of
Ibe Wilderness" and then the chorus
will come in, "Christ, the fountain in
,he midst of the wilderness.n
My friends, will you join that anthem?
shall we make rehearsal this morning?
1t we cannot sing that song ON earth we
will not be able to sing 1t in heaven.
Can it be that our good friends in that
and VIII walk all through that great
Lhrong of which l speak, looking for ia
and not finding us? will they come
down to the gate and ask il we have
passed through, and not find us reported
as having Gomez Will they look through
he follos OF eternal light and find our
names unrecorded? Is all this u rep.
'esentatlon Of a land we shall never
see-ot song we shall never sing?
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