Connecticut western news., 1892-07-14
mathematics; and I would rather take

mathematics; and I would rather take the representation of my text, which de- scribes the occupation of heaven as be- ing 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 saliva tion 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 1t 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 a scepter 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- tion will be asked, What shall we sing?' and there will be a voice "ike the voice of many waters, like the voice of mighty thunderings," that will re- spond, "Sing salvation"
 In this world we have plaintive 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 | the Mendelssohns 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. It will not be 8 solo, it will not be duet. 1t will not be quintet, but an in- numerable 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 GLORY.
 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 ill would always charge him, "Take heed of your eyes,"
 Ohi when think of the song that goes up around the throne of God, so jubi Il like saying, "Take heed of your ears. ," It Is so loud song. It is so blessed an anthem. They sing rock song, saying. "Who is he that sheltered us in the vii derness, and shadowed us in a weary IandY And the chorus comes in, "Christ the shadow of a rock in 8 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 brightened all our way and breathed sweetness upon our soul, and bloomed through frost and tempest?" And the chorus will come in, "Christ, the lily of the valley, blooming through frost and tempest" They sing | a water song, saying, "Who is he that | gleamed to us from the frowning crag, ! and frightened 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? I If we cannot sing that song on earth we will not be able to sing it in heaven. l Can it be that our good friends ill that land will walk all through that great throng of which 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?