Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-07-11

represented the good in heaven as car
rying cypress branches. that would nave
meant sorrow. If my text had repre-
sented the good in heaven A. carrying
nirhtshade. nat would have meant S'a.
But it ia palm branch they caETS', AMI
that is victory When the people came
home from w.. in oldca ssnios the con-
oueror rode NJ The head ~ his troops. ]
and there were triuinphal arches, ana
tbe oeople would come out with branch {
q, Of the palm tree and wave them all
along the host. What a significant type
,hjs of the greeting and Of the JOY Of the .
,ndsen,el in heaven! On earth they
vera condemned, and were put ont ~
roli.c circles. They had infamous hands
s,,il,e them on both cheeks. Internal
srits spat in their faces. Their bicS
nchcd with sorrow.
Their brow reeked with unslleviatei
toll How weary they werol Sometimes
thoy broke the heart of the midnight il
the midst of all their anguish, crying
out. 80 God!" But hark now 20 the
shout of the delivered cap'iyeS, as they
lift their arms from the sh2CkieS AMI
they cry out, Free! freer' They look
back upon all the trials through which
they have passed, the battles they have
fought, the burdens they carried, the
misrepresentations they suffered. and
because they are delivered from al 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 CArist. He pardoned my
sins, he soothed my sorrows" " and stand
ing there they snail be exultant, waving
their palms.
NO MORE TOLL OR SORROW.
That hand once held the implement Of
toll or 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 pilgrim on earth; he crunched the
hard crusts-he walked the W AIRY 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 viii be like the
rocking and tossing of forest in a tenn
pest, as all the redeemed rise up, host
beyond host, rank beyond rank, waving
their palms.
My subject makes anoCher advance
ment, and speaks of the song they sing.
DR.. Dick, i'll a very learned work,
says that among other things i'll heaven
he thinks they will give a great deal Of
time to the study of arithmetic and the
higher branches of matEenlati.s. | do
not believe it. 1t would upset my idea
of heaven if thought SO; never liked
mathematics; and l would rather take
the representation of my text which de-
scribes the occupation of heaven as be-
ing joyful psallnody. "They cried with
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 cf the Lamb
that was slain.
see soul comi~g 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
says, Sing salvation;" and after awhile
an earthly despotism falls and scepter
of iniquity is snapped, and churches are
built where once there We're supersti-
tious mosques, and angel cries to angel,
Let us sing" and the answer is, "What
shall we sipg?' 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 righteous are as
cending and the world is burning and
all things are being wound up, the ques.
ton will be asked, "N hat shall we
sing?" and there will be a voice like
the voice of many waters, like the voice
of mighty thunderings," that will re-
spond, Sing salvation"
In this world we have plaintive song
songs tremulous with sorrow, songs
dirgeful for the dead; but in HEAVIER
there win be no signing of winds, ne
wailing of anguish no weeping sym
phony. The tamest song will be hal
leluiah-the dullest tune triumpha
march. Joy among the cherubim! Joy
among the seraphim! JOY among thC
ransomed Joy forever!
On earth the music in churches il
often poor, because there is no interes
in it or because there is no harmony
Some would not sing, some could no
sing, some sang too high, some sang to,
low, some sang by fits and starts, but il
the great audience of the redeemed ol
high all voices will be accordant, ant
the man who on earth could not tell
plantation melody from the "Deac
March in Saul" will lift an anthem tina
the Mendelssohns and Beethovens an,
the Schumanns of earth never imagined
and you may stand through all eternit
, and listen and there will not be one dis
cord in that great anthem that foreve
, rolls up against the great heart of God
, 1t will not be solo, il will noC be duet
4 it will not be n quintet, but an in
| Vulnerable host before the throne, cry
, ing. salvation unto our God and unit
, the Lamb" They crowd all the ten
/ pies, they bend over the battlementS
they fill all the heights and depths an
8 lengths and breadths of heaven wit