The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-07-15

MY suDlect makes hnother advance
ment, 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 grea. 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 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
d 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 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
says, "Sing salvation;" and after awhile
an earthly despotism falls and sceptef
of iniquity is snapped, and churches are
built where once there were supersti-
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 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, "What shall we
singr and there will be 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 songs
songs tremulous with sorrow, songs
dirgeful for the dead; but in heaven
there will be no signing Of winds, no
wailing of anguish, no weeping sym
phony. The tamest 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 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 fits and starts, but in
the great audience Of the redeemed on
high all voices will be accordant, and
the man who ON earth could not tell
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 stand through all eternity
and listen and there will not be one dis
cord in that great anthem that forever
rolls up against the great heart of God.
1t will not be a solo, it will not be duet,
it will not be quintet, but an in
Vulnerable host before the throne, cry
Ing, Salvation unto our God and unto
the Lamb" They crowd all the tenn
pies, they bend over the battlements,
they fill all the heights and depths and
lengths and breadths of heaven with
their hosannas.
THE DIVINE GtoRY
When people were taken into the Tenn
pie 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 brilliancy of that
room, and so the janitor when he brought
, stranger to the door and let him in
would always charge him, Take heed
Of your eyes,"
Obi when think of the song that goes
up around the throne Of God, SO jubi-
liant, many voiced, multtudinous, I feel
like saying, "Take heed of your ears. !"
1t Is so loud song. 1t is SO blessed an
anthem. They sing rock song, saying.
"Who is he that sheltered us In the will
derness, and Swallowed us in a weary
landT And the chorus comes in, "Christ
the shadow of rock in weary land"
They sing star song, saying, who
is he that guided us through the thick
night, and when all other lights went
out arose in the sky the morning star,
pouring light on the souls darkness?"
And the chorus will come in, Christ,
the morning star, shining on the souls
darkness" They will sing flower song,
saying, "Who is he that frightened all
our way, and breathed sweetness upon
our soul, and bloomed through frost and
tempestT And the chorus will come in,
Christ, the lily of the valley, blooming
through frost and tempest" They sing
water song, saying, "Who is he that
cleaned to us from the frowning crag,
and ightened the darkest ravine of
trouble, and brought cooling to the
temples and refreshment to the lip, and
was fountain in the midst of the will
derness?" and then the chorus will come
in, "Christ, the fountain in the midst of
the wilderness"
My friends, will you join that anthem?
Shall we make rehearsal this morning?
If we cannot sing that song on earth
we will not be able to sing it in heaven.
Can it be that our good friends in that
land will walk all through that great
throng of which l speak looking for us
and not finding us. Will they come
down to the gate and ask if we have
passed through, and not find us reported
as having come? Will they look through
the folios of eternal light and find our
names unrecorded? Is all this repre-
sentation of land we shall never see,
of song we shall never sing?