The Penn's Grove record., 1892-07-15

Diosoom Wnen t Is so rich with noiiefihs
life. Gravesi gravesi gravesi But when
these bereayeDents have all passed, ana
there are no more graves to dig, AM no
more coffins to make. And no more sorrow
20 sunef, we shall pull of this mourning n
De robed In white. l see a soul going right
up from all this scene Of sin and trouble IN
% glory. l seem to hear him say:
] journey forth rejoicing
From this dark vale OF tesrs
Ioheayenly Joy and freedom,
From earthly care and fears.
When Christ my Lord shall gather
All His redeemed again,
His kingdom 10 inherit
Goodnight till then.
lhear my Saviour calling:
: The joyful hour has come;
The angel guards are ready
To guide me to our nome.
When Christ our Lord shall gather
An His redeemed again,
His kingdom to Inherit
Goodnight till then.
Ny subject advances, aud tells you OF this
sented the good in heaven as carrying
cypress branches, that would have meant
sorrow. IL my text had represented the
good in heaven as carrying nightshade, mat
would have meant sin. Blu It Is a palm
branch they carry, and that Is victory.
When the people zane home from war In
oldan times the conqueror o at the head
OF his troops, and there were triumphai
arches, and people would come out with
branches Of the palm tree n wave them
all along the host. What q significant type
this of the greeting mi OF the joy OF the
redeemed in heaveni On earth they were
condemned, and were put out OF polite cir
cles. They had infamous hands strike them
on both cheeks. Internal spite spat In their
faces. Their back ached with sorrow.
Their brow reeked with unallevie.sd toll.
How weary they werei Sometimes they
broke the heart Of the midnight in the midst
OF all their anguish, crying out, 10 Godr
But bark now to the shout Of the delivered
captives, as they lift their arms from the
shackles and they cry out, ..Freei frsef'
They look back upon all the trials through
which they have passed, the battles they
have fought, the burdens they carrie |, the
Misrepresentation they suffered, and be-
cause they are delivered from all thess they
stand before God waving their palms. They
come to the feet OF Christ, m they look
mp into His face, an they remember His
sorrows, and they remember His pain, n
they remember His groans, and they say:
why, l was savei by that Christ. He
pardoled my sins, He soothei my sorrows,n
and standing there they shall be exultaHt
waving their palms.
That hand oncs held the implement Of toll
or welded the swori OF war. bat nov IL
plucks down branches from the tree Of life
as they stand before the throne waving their
palms. Once he was q pilgrim on earth;
he crunched the hard crusts-he walked the
weary way, but 1t Is all gone now; the sin
gone. the WEAKNESS gone. the sickness gone,
thes sorrow gone. As Christ stands up be-
fns-o thu o.aaf arroa . A.. 49, 49,
counts His victori les it will be like the rocking
and tossing Of a forest In . tempest as all
the redeemed rise up, host beyond host, rank
beyond rank. waving their palms.
Ny 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 a great deal OF time to tho
study Of arithmetic and the higher branches
OF mathematics. I do o believe it. 1t
would upset my idea Of heaven II l Thought
20; l never liked mathematics; aud I would
rather take the representation OF MI toxt,
which describes the o~ccupatian OF heaven as
being joyful psalmody. They cried with
. loud voice, saying, Salvation unto Cur
God" In this world We nave secular songs
nursery songs, boatmen's songs harvest
will have taste for only one song, and that
will be the song Of salvation from a eternal
death to an eternal heaven through the
blood Of the Lamb that was slain
In this world we have piaintivc songs
songs tremulous with sorrow, songs dirgcfui
for the dead, but in heaven there will be no
signing OF winds, no wailing OF anguish, no
weeping symphony. The tamest song will
be halleluiah the dullest tune = triumphai
march. Joy among the cherubiml JOY
among the seraphimi Joy among the ran
aomedt JOy fOreyerl
On earth the music in churches is often
poor, because there is no interest In 1t or be-
cause 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 au-
ali voices will be scoordsnt and
the man who on earth could not tell a plan
tatiou melody from the dead NJ arch in
Eauln will lift an anthem that the Mendels-
sohns and Beethovens and the Schumanns OF
earth never imagined, aud you may stand
through all eternity and listen and there will
not DO one discord in the great anthem that
forever rolls up against the great heart OF
God. It will not be a colo, 1t will not be a
duet. 1t will not be a quintet, but an innum-
cradle host before the throne. crying, stsjal-
walton unto our God and unto the Lamb
Thew crowd all the temples, they ben1 over
the battlements, they fill all the heights and
depths and lengths and breadths OF heaven
with their hosanDas.
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