Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-07-11
the good in heaven as car

sented 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 people came
home from war in olden times the con-
oueror rode at the head Of his troops,
and there were triumphal arches, and
the people would come out with branch
es of the palm cree and wave them all
along the host What Il significant type
this of the greeting and Of the joy of the
redeemed in heavel.! On earth they |
were condemned, and were put out of
polite circles They had infamous hands
strike them on both cheeks. Internal |
spite spat in their faces. Their back
ached with sorrow.
Their brow rocked with unalleviated
toll. How weary they were! Sometimes
they broke the heart Of the midnight in
the midst Of all their anguish, crying |
out. 30 God!' But bark now to the
shout Of the delivered captives, as they
lift their arms from the shackles 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 the feet of Christ,
and they look up into his face, and they
remember his sorrows, and they remem-
Der his pain, and they remember his
groans, and they say: ''Why, l was
saved by that Christ. He pardoned my
sins, he soothed my sorrows,' and stand
inc there they shall be exultant, waving
their palms.
NO MORE TOLL OR SORROW.
That hand once held the implement OF
toll OF welded the sword of war, but
row it plucks 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 it is all gone now; the sin gone, the
WEAKNESS gone. the sickness gone, the
sorrow gone. AS Christ stands up be-
fore the great array Of the saved and re-
counts his victories it will be like the
rocking and tossing of a forest IN tenn
pest, as all the redeemed rise up, host
beyond host, rank beyond rank, waving
their palms.
NV subject makes another advance
ment, and speaks of the song they sing.
Dr.. Dick, in a very learned work,
saws that among other things i'll heaven
he thinks they will give a grea5 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 If I thought so; | never liked
mathematics; and [ would rather take
the representation of my text, which de-
scribes the occupation Of heaven as be-
ing joyful psalmody. They cried with
a loud voice, saying, Salvation unto our
God" In this world we have 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 saliva
ton from an eternal death to an eternal
heaven through the blood of the Lamb
that was slain.
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 it and say, ''What shall
we sing?' and the newly arrived soul
saws. Sing salvation;'' and after awhile
an earthly despotism falls and a scepte1
of iniouity is snapped, and churches are
tious mosques, and angel cries to angel
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 rusI
! into the outspread arms Of the church Of
| heaven. and while the righteous are as
cending and the world is burning and
| all things are being wound up, the ques
L ton will be asked, "W hat shall We
sing?" and there will be a voice til'
: the voice of many waters, like the voice
of mighty thunderings," that Will re
9 spond, Sing salvation
4 In this world we have plaintive song
4 songs tremulous with sorrow, song
S dirgeful for the dead; but in HEAVIER
/ there will be no signing of winds, NJ
3 wailing of anguish, no weeping sym
phonv. The tamest song will be hal
leluiah-the dullest tune triumpha
: march. JOY among the cherubim! 10
e among the seraphim! JOY among tn
}; ransomedl Joy foreveri
It On earth the music in churches
0 often poor, because there is no interes
e in it or because there is no harmony
h Some would not sing, some could nc
g sing, some sang too high, some sang to
k low, some sang by fits and starts, but
e the great audience of the redeemed O
l. high all voices will be accordant, an
L the man who on earth could not tell
u plantation melody from the 'Dea
y March in Saul will lift an anthem thu
5. the Memberships and Beethovens an
y the Schumanns of earth never imagined
and you may stand through all eternit
and listen and there will not be one di
n cord in that great anthem that forev'
t, rolls up against the great heart of Co
~ It will not be solo, it will not be due
IN it will not be a quintet, but an i
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