Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-07-14

stands up before the great array Of the
saved and recounts his victories it will be
like the rocking and tossing of forest in
a tempest, rs all the redeemed rise up,
host beyond host. rank beyond rank, wav-
Ing waving their palms.
My subject makes another advancement,
and speaks Of the song they sing.
DIR. Dick, in a very learned work, says
that among other things in heaven he
thinks they will give great deal Of time
TO the study CT arithmetic and the higher
branches of mathematics. | do not be-
lieve it. 1t would upset my idea of heaven
| II thought so; | never liked mathematics;
and would rather take the representation
of my text, which describes the occupation
of heaven as being joyful psalmody. 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 sal
walton from an eternal death to an eternal
heaven, through ths 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 singt"
and the newly arrived soul says, Sing sal
vation;" and after awhile an earthly des-
potism falls, and scepter Of iniquity is
snapped, and churches are built where
once there were superstitious mosques,
and angel cries to angel, Let us sing"
and the answer is. what shall we singi"
and another voice says, Let us sing sal
vation;" and after awhile all the church
on earth will rush into the outspread arms
Of the church OF heaven, and while the
righteous are ascending, and the world is
| burning, and all things are being wound
up, the question will be asked, What
shall we sing?" and there will be voice
like the voice of many waters, like the
voice Of mighty thunderings. that will re-
| spond, 'Sinp salvation"
| In this word we have plaintive songs
songs tremulous with sorrow, songs dirge.
| full for the dead; but in heaven there will
be no signing Of winds, no wailing of an
guish, no weeping symphony. The tamest
song will be halleluiah-the dullest tune a
triumphal march, Joy among the cheru.
biml Joy among the seraphimi Joy
among the ransomedi Joy foreverl
| THE ETERNAL SONG.
On earth the music in churches is often
poor, because there is no interest in it o.
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 Bee
thovens and the Schumanns of earth never
| imagined, and you may stand through all
eternity and listen, and there will not be
one discord in that great anthem that for
ever rolls up against the great heart Of
God. II will not be a solo. it will not be a
duet, II will not be quintet, but an in.
Vulnerable host before the throne crying
salvation unto our God and unto the
Lamb" They crowd all the temples; they
bend over the battlements; they fill all
the heights and depths and lengths and
breadths of heaven with their hosannas.
When people were taken into the Temple
of Diana il was such a 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 n stranger
10 the door and let him in. would always
charge him, Take heed of your eyes. "
Oh. when think Of the song that goes
up around the throne of God, so jubilant,
many voiced, multtudinous. ! feel like
saving, Take heed Of your ears" 1t is so
loud a song. 1t is so blessed an anthem.
They sing a rock song, saying, Who is he
that sheltered us in the wilderness and
Swallowed us in weary landY" And the
chorus comes in, Christ. the shadow of a
rock in weary land"
They sing n 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 a flower song, saying, "Who is he that
frightened all our way, and breathed
sweetness upon our soul, and bloomed
through frost and tempest?'' and the cho-
rus will come in, Christ, the lily of the
valley, blooming through frost and tenn
pest" They sing a water song. saying,
''Who is be that CLEANED 10 us from the
frowning crag, and lightened the darkest
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the temples, and refreshment to the lip,
and was fountain in the midst Of the will
dernesss" and then the chorus will come
In, Christ. the fountain in the midst of
the wilderness"
My friends, will you join that anthemi
Shall we make rehearsal this mornings 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 speak, looking for us and not find
ing U.S. Will they come down to the gate
and ask If we have passed through, and
not find US reported as having comes VIII
they look through the folios Of eternal
light and find our nrines unrecorded; Is
all this representa- on of a land we shall
never see-of a song we shall never singg